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- Deliver on client expectations by building a comprehensive quality plan
- Poor quality management can lead to rework, customer dissatisfaction, higher costs, and missed deadlines. This template will help you avoid those problems by defining expectations and forging a solid plan to satisfy or exceed them. Many projects fall short of client expectations because the project manager didn't...
- Tags: Expectation, Project Manager, Quality Plan, Quality, Business Operations
- Tools & templates 2005-09-09
- Does Your Company Need a CPO? (a Case for the Central Project Office and a Chief Project Officer)
- Project Management is one of the fastest growing, widely recognized trends of the last decade. Its recent popularity can be seen in many quarters. Over 50% annual growth in membership in the Project Management Institute is just one sign of this popular movement. Similar growth can be seen in project...
- Tags: Microsoft Office, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management
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- Consolidate all project management deliverables in the project plan
- A project plan is not the project schedule or workplan. It's the name given to all of the project management documents used during the project. Many people use the term "project plan" to mean the project schedule or workplan. However, the project plan is actually the name...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Tom Mochal, project plan, project management, project management deliverable, Project Management Newsletter, Risk Management, Plan, It Operations, It service Management, Management
- Technical articles 2007-01-16
- Gain project approvals from the right stakeholders
- Before your project starts execution, you should have created a Project Charter, project schedule, and the Project Management Procedures. These are the three documents that will guide the subsequent execution of the project. Of course, these three documents are not developed in isolation. They need to be created with, and...
- Tags: Project, Tom Mochal
- Blog posts 2007-08-06
- Mired in Methodology
- A colleague of mine and me often use the term M&Ms whendescribing an IT organization or a component of one as in They are just abunch of M&Ms. When doing so, we arent referring to chocolaty goodness butthe fact that they are mired in methodology.You know what this is....
- Tags: project management
- Blog posts 2005-08-12
- Why Have a Separate Project Management Methodology?
- The methodology most organizations are referring to is some type of Systems Development Life Cycle SDLC with a bit of project management thrown in. The project management methodology should address the specific project management deliverables. This includes specific processes for project initiation, prioritization, project planning, status reporting, issue/decision/change management, quality...
- Tags: Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management
- White papers 2006-03-06
- Applied Project Management Solutions
- As agencies continue to face the challenges presented by limited resources, the need for excellent project management becomes even more pronounced. Coupled with this increasing need is the acknowledged Government-wide shortage of trained and experienced project managers. Without adequate project management, the risks to cost, schedule, and completion can become...
- Tags: BAE Systems Plc., Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management
- White papers 2005-05-03
- Multi-Site Virtual Project Management
- The Project Management PM paradigm is rapidly shifting due to business globalization and Information Technology IT advances that support distributed and virtual project teams. Traditional PM focuses on a single project at a single location and is more concerned with project inputs and outputs than with project process. This methodology...
- Tags: Project Management Paradigm, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management
- White papers 2004-04-01
- Simple Framework for Practical Project Management
- Putting an infrastructure for effective Project Management PM in an organization is not an easy job. It requires not only a change in procedures but also a change in the organizational culture and the mindset of people. A lot of attempts to introduce the Project Management culture in an organization...
- Tags: Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management
- White papers 2004-05-01
- VB Project Eye (exe)
- VB Project Eye is an analysis tool for determining the calls/uses of procedures, variable, types, and classes in shortest time, traces dead code and allows a slight navigation through the call trees of a Visual Basic project. The dependences between the different objects can be represented graphically. In addition it...
- Tags: Microsoft Visual Basic, Analysis, Programming, VB Project Eye, Microsoft Development Tools, Programming Languages, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- Software downloads 2005-07-13
- Get everyone on the same page with a project kickoff meeting
- Sometimes projects don't always go through an organized sequence of planning and execution. On many projects, you're forced to jump into execution and then catch up with the planning later. Before you know it, you find that team members and stakeholders have varying levels of understanding about the purpose and...
- Tags: Project, Team, Kickoff, Tom Mochal
- Blog posts 2007-08-14
- The Changing Landscape of Project Management
- This paper discusses the historical development of project management models based on the author's analysis and offers views on project management opportunities and challenges into the future. Project management models can be drawn from such attributes as project management structure and methods, socio-economic drivers that prompt the build-up of the...
- Tags: Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management
- White papers 2005-03-13
- Use an initial Discovery Project to define very large projects
- Before a project actually starts, you must spend an appropriate amount of time defining the work and building a workplan schedule. For a small project, it may only take a few hours to complete this upfront work. A medium sized project might take 20 - 40 to define and plan....
- Tags: Discovery, Project, Project Definition, Tom Mochal
- Technical articles 2005-03-22
- The Underlying Theory of Project Management Is Obsolete
- This paper shows that project management as practiced today rests on an implicit and narrow theory that must be developed, extended and enriched. Indeed, it is the poverty of current theory that explains the other problems of project management, such as frequent project failures, lack of commitment towards project management...
- Tags: Theory, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management
- White papers 2002-09-24
- Evolving the Project Management Office: A Competency Continuum
- Many organizations today have recognized the need for a Project Management Office PMO to achieve project management oversight, control, and support. The PMO's role is to help both the project manager and the relevant organization to not only understand and apply modern project management practices, but also to adapt and...
- Tags: Project Management Office, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management
- White papers 2004-09-22
- Implement this rigorous control process to keep projects running smoothly
- An effective PM management process offers numerous benefits, such as integrating the actions of all stakeholders and minimizing rework. This control process document and high-level sample project plan offer a blueprint for effective project management. Many factors can contribute to project failure, and certain symptoms are clear...
- Tags: TechRepublic Inc., Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management
- Download resources 2005-11-02
- IT Services Management: Project Management Best Practices
- A formal project management process is crucial to the overall success of any project. The objective of a formal project management process is to provide a detailed plan and set of deliverables that can be easily tracked, controlled, measured, and reported on to assure the proposed solution is delivered on...
- Tags: IT Services, Information Technology, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management
- White papers 2002-05-25
- Value of Project Management in IT Organizations
- Implementing project management adds significant value to IT organizations. This conclusion is the result of a survey of senior-level project management practitioners by the Center for Business Practices, the research arm of the consulting and training organization, Project Management Solutions, Inc. Over 97% of senior-level project management professionals stated that...
- Tags: Information Technology, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management
- White papers 2001-10-15
- Initiate, monitor, and manage IT projects without tedious methodologies
- This sample chapter, taken from How to Cheat at IT Project Management, discusses various strategies for managing your IT project. Managing your IT project is much easier when you have a clear vision of the project,developed from your efforts at defining, organizing, and planning your project.This sample...
- Tags: Chapter, Monitor, Information Technology, Strategy, Management
- Book chapters 2005-11-16
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