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Cultivating a Stronger IT–Business Partnership

CEO’s need to understand how and why CIO’s act they way they do in order to effectively navigate human behaviour and maximize their value from IT.

tags: PMIT, PM, Management, CIO, Leadership

5 Steps to Attaining Project Control

Whoda thunkit? 5 Simple Steps to controlling your project:

1. Define what will be measured and/or tested and how often.
2. Monitor progress and evaluate deviations from the plan.
3. Report progress.
4. Analyze the report.
5. Take action where necessary.

Not rocket science at all. The only problem is that people just don’t do it. So, do it.

tags: PM, ProjectManagement, Control

• • Define what will be measured and/or tested and how often. This should incorporate business requirements, cost constraints, technical specifications, and deadlines, along with a preliminary schedule for monitoring that includes who is responsible for it.
  • Monitor progress and evaluate deviations from the plan. During each reporting period, two kinds of information are collected:

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  Posted on 27 May 2009