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Project Management

How you can make your system implementation project a success
Finance Meets the Cloud

How you can make your system implementation project a success

In order to implement a new financial management solution, you need excellent project management, expert subject matter experts, executive support, and a great plan. There is one more thing you need.
By John HoeblerSep, 8 2015
Straight Talk on Project Management

IT Project Management – As more science fiction becomes fact…

Choosing the right partner can help your business keep up with ever-changing IT technology
By David CotgreaveSep, 8 2015
Best-Fit Enterprise Software

How Agile techniques can improve enterprise software implementation

Enterprise software implementations like ERP are famous for being late and exceeding budget. This article looks at using Agile concepts to reduce implementation project risks.
By Chris DoigSep, 1 2015
Think, Change, Achieve

Find your sources of inspiration

If you want to get your creative juices flowing, you want to know what your sources of inspiration are. Whether you want to resolve an issue, respond to a risk, craft a project strategy, you need to be able to tap into the creative zone of your brain.
By Bas De BaatAug, 31 2015
8 tips for managing outsourced projects
How-To

8 tips for managing outsourced projects

Project management and outsourcing experts share their advice on how to effectively manage far-flung or internationally outsourced projects.
By Jennifer Lonoff SchiffAug, 31 2015
Best-Fit Enterprise Software

How to select enterprise software that maximizes ROI

Selecting best-fit enterprise software is a difficult task, and you can’t please all the people all the time. This article outlines a data driven and auditable process to pick the software that maximizes ROI and minimizes buyer’s remorse.
By Chris DoigAug, 27 2015
Best-Fit Enterprise Software

Why spreadsheets don't cut it for enterprise software evaluations

Is your evaluation spreadsheet tying you up in knots? See why spreadsheets don’t deliver when evaluating enterprise software.
By Chris DoigAug, 20 2015
Best-Fit Enterprise Software

Why you should always estimate ROI before buying enterprise software

Don’t gamble when prioritizing enterprise software projects. See why you should prioritize by ROI, and how to do it using the risk-adjusted value method.
By Chris DoigAug, 13 2015
Keep Calm and Lead On

How to turn a crisis into a project management and leadership opportunity

In our normal routines, managers attempt to plan every detail of a project to ensure success. Life, on the other hand, is always interfering with that plan and presents us with an unlimited supply of disasters and the occasional crisis. This is my story of a small, natural disaster and how one neighborhood prevailed.
By Christian YoungbloodAug, 12 2015
Best-Fit Enterprise Software

Don’t skip vendor due diligence when buying enterprise software

It’s all too easy to skip vendor due diligence when buying enterprise software. This is an important part of the evaluation and selection process that can help avoid starting a business relationship with a vendor that just will not work in the long term.
By Chris DoigAug, 7 2015
Strategies for Software Lifecycle Management

7 software strategies I learned while sitting in traffic

Software lifecycle management and freeway construction management share some common uncertainty and risks, but whether you're installing roads or software, you can manage by adopting these sound strategies.
By Jill GilbertAug, 6 2015
Best-Fit Enterprise Software

How to know when you have all the requirements to properly select enterprise software

Any enterprise software selection project starts with a journey of discovery where you find out what your organization truly needs. But how do you know when you have reached the end of that journey and discovered all the requirements?
By Chris DoigJul, 30 2015
Best-Fit Enterprise Software

Why most enterprise software projects should start with an evaluation

The rapid pace of innovation in the enterprise software space suggests that it is usually worth starting a new enterprise software project with an evaluation, even if the ultimate result is a development project.
By Chris DoigJul, 13 2015
7 tips to transform difficult stakeholders into project partners
Feature

7 tips to transform difficult stakeholders into project partners

Business projects almost always create change, which can also bring about significant disruption, stress and fear. That anxiety can translate into difficult project stakeholders – not to mention at-risk projects and unmet goals. Knowing how to turn these problematic partners into committed collaborators is essential skill all project managers should master. Here’s how.
By Moira AlexanderJul, 1 2015
Straight Talk on Project Management

Nine benefits of outsourcing IT project management

Do you know what good service looks like? Does your team? There are more than a few benefits of hiring IT project management as a service (PMaaS).
By David CotgreaveJul, 1 2015
Best-Fit Enterprise Software

Why you can skip business process analysis when purchasing COTS or cloud software

Many people think process analysis and optimization should be done before embarking on a software project. This article explains why it is unnecessary when buying commercial off-the-shelf or cloud software.
By Chris DoigJun, 29 2015
The dirty secrets of project management revealed
Feature

The dirty secrets of project management revealed

Thousands of project managers are in a mad rush to push IT projects live on July 1. Why are PMs more than willing to go over budget than miss a deadline?
By David TaberJun, 26 2015
The ERP upgrade conundrum: How to calculate the true cost
Opinion

The ERP upgrade conundrum: How to calculate the true cost

If you use an old on-premise financial management solution, you have a difficult decision to make over the next few years: do you upgrade the application one last time and get a few more years out of it or move to a modern cloud solution? This is the first of three parts that will help you answer that question.
By John HoeblerJun, 25 2015
Best-Fit Enterprise Software

8 reasons why committees fail when selecting enterprise software

While organizations use committees to select business-critical software, real world experience shows this doesn’t work as expected. Here's a look at why committees struggle with software decisions and what path leads to more successful enterprise software projects.
By Chris DoigJun, 23 2015
Making the case for agile in the enterprise
Feature

Making the case for agile in the enterprise

In part 1 of our three-part series on how IT leaders can make sense of agile methodologies, we look at how to make the business case for agile (Includes video).rn
By Joe MackJun, 22 2015
How to structure an outsourced IT project for less risk, more leverage
How-To

How to structure an outsourced IT project for less risk, more leverage

Large-scale IT outsourcing deals are doomed to fail if you don’t structure the project properly. Therefore, it’s imperative that during the negotiating and contracting phase you lay the groundwork to mitigate the risks and maintain leverage.
By Stephanie OverbyJun, 19 2015
Best-Fit Enterprise Software

9 ways front-loading requirements can reduce enterprise software risk

When purchasing enterprise software, detailed requirements must be developed at the start of the project or during implementation. By examining uses for requirements, we make the case that front-loading requirements development reduces risks and improves project success rates.
By Chris DoigJun, 15 2015
How to find the perfect project manager
Feature

How to find the perfect project manager

The prototypical project manager needs financial, scheduling and management skills to keep projects on time and on budget. They also must communicate effectively to diverse business and technical teams — and that's just the beginning. Here's how to target the elusive perfect project manager. rn
By Mary PrattJun, 10 2015
Tip

Planning is key to project management success

We’ve all heard the old adage ‘measure twice, cut once.’ While it might be a cliché, in the project management world it takes on a critical meaning: Choosing to rush through or ignore the project planning process can be a formula for failure.
By Moira AlexanderJun, 10 2015
The Effective Enterprise

Why is trusting data from your employees so hard?

Do you trust the information you receive from your employees? Many managers seem to have an inherent distrust of the information they receive from their employees. This article discusses three common areas for trust issues.
By Treb GatteJun, 9 2015
Best-Fit Enterprise Software

How to maximize vendor response and value gained from RFIs

When suitable vendors fail to respond to a request for information (RFI), projects get delayed and sometimes the wrong enterprise software is selected. This article summarizes ideas for maximizing RFI responses from vendors.
By Chris DoigJun, 8 2015
Best-Fit Enterprise Software

12 ways to fix the traditional but broken software RFP selection process

The traditional RFP process fails to deliver consistent results when purchasing off-the-shelf or cloud enterprise software. This article examines problems with the RFP process specific to selecting software and suggests appropriate resolutions.
By Chris DoigJun, 1 2015
Should you outsource your project management?
Feature

Should you outsource your project management?

Evaluating whether or not to outsource your company’s project management functions can be challenging. Before making this potentially risky leap, you have to assess if this is a good move for your business, keeping in mind that what works for your business today may not work in the future.
By Moira AlexanderJun, 1 2015
Best-Fit Enterprise Software

Using process to eliminate bias when selecting enterprise software

When selecting enterprise software, process is more important than analysis. The right process also reduces or eliminates bias.
By Chris DoigMay, 29 2015
Best-Fit Enterprise Software

How a vision statement can make IT relevant to the C-suite

With marketing taking a growing slice of the IT budget and the rise of shadow IT, some people are asking if IT is still needed. See how to harness the power of vision to increase the relevance of IT to the C-suite.
By Chris DoigMay, 26 2015
Best-Fit Enterprise Software

18 enterprise software selection risks and how to avoid them

Buying enterprise software can be a risky proposition. Having an idea of the risks faced when selecting such software helps organizations to develop mitigation strategies.
By Chris DoigMay, 22 2015
The Effective Enterprise

This one PMO approach is obscuring the truth from your stakeholders

Using process-centric project plan designs tends to obscure clear communication. Deliverable-centric project plans better support clear communications, make data extraction easier for reporting and enable project manager flexibility to meet their individual project needs.
By Treb GatteMay, 21 2015
10 tips to get the most out of your project management system
How-To

10 tips to get the most out of your project management system

Project management pros share their top tips for getting workers to use project management software more efficiently and effectively – from entering project updates to leveraging more advanced features.
By Jennifer Lonoff SchiffMay, 19 2015
Decoding IT for Business

Why IT professionals must make the hard things look easy

Be like a duck on a pond and appear calm on top and paddle like heck underneath! Make hard things look easy and easy things look hard. In a nutshell, that's your job as an IT professional.
By Paul CotteyMay, 18 2015
The benefits of doing a detailed enterprise software requirements analysis
Best-Fit Enterprise Software

The benefits of doing a detailed enterprise software requirements analysis

Doing a detailed requirements analysis before selecting enterprise software helps identify best-fit software and reduces implementation risks. This article answers the question of how much detail should be in those requirements.
By Chris DoigMay, 18 2015
On Time Innovation

Innovation lessons from the first computers

You can learn innovation lessons from the pioneers of computing. Hint: It takes vision and project management skills to achieve success.
By Bruce HarphamMay, 13 2015
Best-Fit Enterprise Software

When to keep, upgrade or replace enterprise software

Corporate needs change, enterprise software ages and new software competitors appear. This presents an opportunity for improvement, but you need a process to reduce risks and maximize ROI.
By Chris DoigMay, 12 2015
The Effective Enterprise

Ending the 'War on Work': Improving team productivity and managing chaos

Is your organization actively accommodating for chaos or are you simply working to get rid of it? Chaos comes in many forms, some external and some as unintended effects from other internal actions. Actively accommodating for chaos can reduce the war zone feeling in the work place and improve team productivity.
By Treb GatteMay, 11 2015
4 warning signs that your team is not agile
Feature

4 warning signs that your team is not agile

Agile projects get the most out of people, with huge payoffs in productivity and effectiveness. But you have to choose those people carefully to avoid blow-ups.
By David TaberMay, 11 2015
The Global CIO

The plight of the global CIO

Working in international settings, managing teams across continents, and dealing with partners in different languages and timezones makes the world of a Global CIO very interesting.
By Afzal BallimMay, 8 2015
Best-Fit Enterprise Software

3 ways to minimize enterprise software selection risk

While a data-driven software selection focuses on requirements, the demo, product audit and reference checks reduce project risks in other ways.
By Chris DoigMay, 8 2015
IT is Everyone’s Business

What I am learning about projects, delegation, collaboration and communication

Here's an overview of delegation, project management, and collaboration strategies and tools from a former CIO and entrepreneur.
By Matthew MoranMay, 6 2015
Best-Fit Enterprise Software

Comparing enterprise software is like apples and oranges

When selecting enterprise software, comparing software products against each other does not identify best-fit products. This can lead to selecting the wrong software, and missing the opportunity to maximize ROI.
By Chris DoigMay, 4 2015
Best-Fit Enterprise Software

Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission's ERP project takes wrong turn

Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission implements ERP only to end up in court. A case study on reducing enterprise software risks.
By Chris DoigMay, 1 2015
The Effective Enterprise

The greatest reason in the world to track what your employees are doing

Do you know what your employees are really doing every day? Today’s business environment demands a level of organizational agility that is historically unprecedented. Holistic resource utilization management is needed more than ever, as it has become the operational bottleneck.
By Treb GatteApr, 30 2015
Best-Fit Enterprise Software

What a bad enterprise software purchase will cost you

If you fail to do the work upfront to select the best-fit enterprise software, you will pay the price.
By Chris DoigApr, 27 2015
The Effective Enterprise

How to destroy productivity in three easy steps

Find out three easy ways to destroy your employee's productivity. raising your labor costs and adding to your resource capacity woes.
By Treb GatteApr, 23 2015
Best-Fit Enterprise Software

How software evaluations can keep your project on budget and on time

An effective way to improve the accuracy of software implementation estimates is to use information collected when evaluating the selected product. Better estimates improve project management and reduce the risks of implementation problems.
By Chris DoigApr, 22 2015
How to keep business sponsors hooked
Feature

How to keep business sponsors hooked

Tech initiatives won't succeed without ongoing business engagement. Three CIOs share their strategies for getting, and keeping, that engagement.rn
By CIO Executive CouncilApr, 22 2015
Best-Fit Enterprise Software

How to make more successful enterprise software purchases

When purchasing enterprise software, some organizations wait for the implementation phase to flesh out fully detailed requirements. See the advantages of moving this work to the requirements gathering phase of the project.
By Chris DoigApr, 20 2015
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