Project Management
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16 famous ERP disasters, dustups and disappointments
It's no wonder ERP has such a bad reputation: The history surrounding the complex and expensive enterprise software market is packed with tales of vendor mud-slinging, outrageous hype and epic failures.
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Spring 2020: State of the CIO
CIOs’ expanding management and revenue-generation responsibilities are cementing their roles as business leaders. Traditional technologists need not apply.
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Stakeholder management: Your plan for influencing project outcomes
Stakeholder management can be more complex than project managers think. Here’s how to mentor, influence, and communicate with everyone impacted by your project.
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8 lies project managers tell themselves
From overvaluing milestones to assuming everyone has a unified vision of project success, don’t let these common PM self-deceptions sink your project.
IDG TECHtalk Voices
Organizing around the value stream
When working on multiple projects at once, it is hard to make good progress. If we organize around the value stream, then we can help the work to flow through our system.
Building IT Relationships
4 lessons from the Hertz vs. Accenture IT disaster
A tremendous amount of information and specific insight can be gleaned by analyzing projects gone wrong. Here are four lessons IT leaders can apply to any outsourcing agreement.
Opinion
8 dark secrets of organizational change management
In the digital era, organizational change management is crucial to business success — far too crucial to be dogged by its misconceptions and false assumptions.
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8 tips for dealing with IT project pushback
Technical initiatives are often met with resistance from business leaders, IT pros and end users alike. Here’s how to transform friction into feedback that can help push your project forward.
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The 22 best project management tools for business
Having the right set of tools to tackle analytics, requirements, change, and project progress will help project managers perform at their best.
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7 secrets of high-performing IT teams
Getting staff to move beyond simply meeting basic goals is an art only select IT leaders possess. Here are seven performance-boosting techniques top IT pros rely on.
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What is process improvement? A business methodology for efficiency and productivity
A broken business process can cost your business time and money. But pinpointing exactly where a process breaks down — and where it can be improved — isn’t an exact science.
The Adaptive CIO
The end of project management?
IT project management as a discipline has been around for many years. However, is it relevant in the age of digital products? Or can it become a valuable adjunct to IT digital product management?
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Business requirements: Tracing project deliverables to business goals
Any successfully executed IT project is guided by pre-defined business requirements. Here’s how to ensure project deliverables and resource allocation trace back to business needs.
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What is a Scrum master? A key role for project success
With agile fast becoming standard practice at most companies, scrum masters are in great demand. Here is a look at the Scrum Master role, relevant certifications, expected salaries and career opportunities.
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What is gap analysis? Uncovering the missing links to successful performance
Gap analysis helps companies objectively evaluate their current state and make improvements to advance the organization toward desired outcomes and to better achieve business goals.
Practical Management Tips for IT Leaders
Why are my projects failing?
Is your IT organization struggling to deliver projects successfully? If so, you're right there with a majority of the IT organizations in the world and it's killing your credibility.
How-To
Free Course: Learn to easily estimate projects and products
In partnership with tech training provider Pluralsight, CIO.com is offering free, limited-time access to the course “Easily Estimate Projects and Products.”
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7 tips for getting out of a bad vendor contract
When a seemingly sweet deal turns sour, it's time to prepare an exit strategy. Here’s how to preserve essential business operations, your vendor relationship and your job.
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IT as a product: Secrets of successful launches
To improve efficiency and user outcomes, organizations are jettisoning IT projects in favor of an agile, product-based approach to delivery IT services. IT leaders share their hard-earned tips on making it work.
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4 critical roles for agile success
Agile may provide the biggest competitive advantage companies can have in a digital age. Here are the crucial roles to fill when fielding your agile teams.
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13 signs your software project may be doomed
Software projects can get derailed before you know it. Here are the subtle warning signs that your latest app dev initiative isn’t going quite as well as it seems.Feature
What is a business analyst? A key role for business-IT efficiency
Business analyst help guide businesses in improving processes, products, services and software through data analysis. These agile workers straddle the line between IT and the business to help bridge the gap and improve efficiency.
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Succeeding in the era of shared project oversight
With LOBs increasingly driving technology spend, IT and business leaders must learn how to share authority over projects effectively without killing them.
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Essential practices of successful agile teams
Effective agile transformations require the right team makeup, a laser focus on business outcomes, and approaches to management and training that break from the past.
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6 steps to a successful ServiceNow implementation
ServiceNow is a robust ITSM suite that offers organizations popular services on a single-platform. But it’s not as easy as deploying any tool or service – here’s six tips on how to embark on a successful ServiceNow implementation.
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Top 5 requirements management tools
Identifying and managing business requirements is among the most critical steps in ensuring project deliverables are on point. Here are the top tools to help you execute your requirements management plan.
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4 keys to assembling a successful agile team
Agile teams are only as effective as their members. These core factors and key questions will help you select and develop the best.
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Asana vs. Mavenlink vs. Wrike: Project management platforms compared
Asana, Mavenlink, and Wrike offer world-class work management, but how do you know which one is best suited for your company? Here are the highlights, pros, and cons of each platform.
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What is TBM? A framework for driving value and innovation in IT
In offering guidance and best practices for IT-business alignment, the technology business management (TBM) framework can help your organization better understand IT’s value, increase collaboration and give deeper insights into IT spending and industry trends.
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Making the shift to product-based IT
Many organizations are shifting from project-based IT to product-based delivery. Here’s how they overcome common obstacles and drive success in concert with business stakeholders.
Reviews
Mavenlink review: Intelligent service-based project management
From its high-level views to the smallest unit of task detail, Mavenlink offers a well thought out platform complete with business intelligence reporting — a definite plus for service-based businesses.
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9 AI project mistakes to avoid
From building isolated proofs of concept to not defining how to measure success, a wide array of gotchas can derail your AI project’s prospects for delivering business value.
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Leadership lessons from Linus Torvalds: 7 dos and 3 don'ts
You don't have to take a page out of his book to learn some valuable lessons from how Torvalds has managed the sprawling, self-selected, volunteer community of Linux developers—both the successes, and what led to his self-imposed exile.
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Agile KPIs: How to measure agile success
Measuring success of agile efforts can be complex. The key is to emphasize value once you’ve established organizational trust.Reviews
Asana review: Intelligent, adaptive project management
Asana’s work management and collaboration platform is an impressive tool that enables teams to significantly reduce the time they spend dealing with processes and task management.
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16 time-saving tips for IT leaders
Want to maximize the time your organization spends on transformational initiatives? Here’s how to eliminate time-wasting practices and streamline how work gets done.
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Wrike review: Project management made simple
Wrike stands out as an intuitive project management platform complete with resource management, automated request capturing, proofing and approval, and more.
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Moving agile beyond IT: The secret to successful software delivery
Creating an agile enterprise requires more than just implementing agile methodologies within IT. CIOs must spread the gospel to encourage participation from IT’s business colleagues.
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What is an agile coach? A valuable role for organizational change
An agile coach helps organizations implement the agile methodology by developing agile teams and facilitating the organizational culture change necessary for sustained agile success.
IT Bytes
Prioritizing projects
Understand the context in which project prioritization methods are designed and managed. With this foundation you will be enabled to build a well-tuned model for prioritization.
Straight Talk on Project Management
When an IT project isn't an IT project, engagement soars
Calling an IT project "an IT project" may be doing your project a disservice.
IT as a Weapon
Project managers need to be warriors, not bookkeepers – or your projects are doomed
Project management is about leadership. Learn to develop, hire and celebrate the warrior project managers.
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8 secrets of effective change leaders
Change doesn’t come easy. Here’s how transformational leaders inspire their organizations to take on new ways of thinking and working in the digital era.
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8 agile certifications to take your career to the next level
The agile methodology has changed the face of software development and project management, and increased demand for professionals with agile knowledge and experience. Here are eight agile-focused certifications to benchmark your knowledge.
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How to develop a PMO strategic plan
Developing a PMO strategic plan that ensures high alignment with business objectives is no light task. Here are the key steps to effectively launching your project management office’s strategic plan.
Straight Talk on Project Management
Are you passionately curious? It's IT project management's success secret
Why do some projects stir a passion within you and others leave you less revved up? Could unlocking the secret lead to fewer IT project failures?
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6 most-dreaded IT projects
Patching old systems, migrating email to the cloud, unsupported compliance mandates, and ERP upgrades are some of the jobs IT pros dread most.
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Agile project management: 12 key principles, 4 big hurdles
Geared toward continuous improvement, the agile methodology can greatly increase your project’s prospects for success. Here is everything you need to know about agile project management, from certification to training to software and more.
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What is Six Sigma? Streamlining quality management
Six Sigma streamlines quality control in an effort to improve current processes, products or services. Here are the methodologies, roles and certifications central to this quality management methodology.
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What is an EPMO? The organizational key to project success
An enterprise project management office (EPMO) differs from a traditional PMO in that it operates at a strategic level in collaboration with executives to ensure projects and portfolio activities are conducting to the benefit of the overall business.
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