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1. The ultimate long-term relationship: Secure and maintain executive management support: To gain and sustain project momentum, executives must support the automation of project and portfolio management processes that span multiple business units

Project Management is perhaps one of the most fiercely debated and grossly misunderstood disciplines in the software field currently, hence let me throw in a disclaimer first: if you are a small team of experts and/or people well-known to each other (e.g., have worked together as a team earlier), and situated in a collocated fashion, doing a lot of ‘creative work’ that can’t be very ‘accurately’ scoped, let alone managed; you probably will find ideas of formal project management a huge overkill (on time, effort, money and might even seem to stifle creativity), and you might be better off considering ‘lightweight’ methods like Agile Project Management / Scrum in the context of software development (well, nothing stops you from deploying pieces of Agile / Scrum in a non-software context – it is based on common sense after all). Small projects, small teams can afford to define a process that exploits the tailwind: – A small and collocated team means more direct interaction among team members and lesser management overheads in formalizing project communication (e.g., project status reporting, team meetings, etc.).

I’ve worked in marketing and product development for a biotech startup for about three years. I have no formal training in project management and it hasn’t been mentioned in my job description, but I’ve been working in a project management capacity for most of my time here. Shortly after I came on board, we were forced to do a major overhaul of our flagship product.

In the following posts I’ll define the term “Internal projects” and will show that they are essential for any IT department. Despite the fact that there are managers out there, that understand the value of inner projects and the fact that these project already exist, too many IT departments still fail to understand how important they are. Thus, my task is to offer another point of view of this subject, which will hopefully help more IT managers see the light

Effective Communication | Project Management Guide The importance and complexity of communication cannot be overemphasized. This blog post really digs in to the importance of effective team communication and the hidden costs of large teams.

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

Five Phases of Project Management (humorous) THE FIVE PHASES OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT 1. Initial enthusiasm 2.

What it takes to be a leader – Annotated 1. Be an innovative leader

ERP Projects, while affordable, are plagued by scope and project mgmt issues Surprise! Over-ambitious targets and poor project management, the bane of software development everywhere, haunt small to mid-sized companies in their search for business improvement, creating horror stories, which, some experts say, unfairly damage the credibility of the systems that should be their salvation. tags : PM , ProjectManagement , PMIT , ERP Posted from Diigo .

Three Little Words Every Leader Needs to Learn I thought it was WTF at first. Such as being inquisitive and demanding. “WTF were you thinking when you did that?” “WTF has happened to sales this quarter