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Project management: Tips, tools, best practices

CIO Business Intelligence

What is project management? Project management is a business discipline that involves applying specific processes, knowledge, skills, techniques, and tools to successfully deliver outcomes that meet project goals. Project management steps Project management is broken down into five phases or life cycle.

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How to be a Program Manager in Agile Organizations

Social, Agile and Transformation

"We don't need program managers," said the agile leader. Surely, many of the responsibilities we expected of program and project managers have shifted since the pre-agile world. . Let's think about that for a few seconds.

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Top 15 project management certifications

CIO Business Intelligence

Behind every successful IT project, you’ll find a highly skilled project manager. From hardware and software upgrades to ongoing security patches, to application development and the rollout of software itself, project managers keep your teams on task and productive. Top project management certifications.

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The Tip of the Spear II: Connecting Big Data Project Management with Enterprise Data Strategy

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As a result, creating and implementing an effective enterprise-level data strategy that rises above and encompasses multiple programs, systems, and/or missions requires not just data analysis skills but a mix of technical, organizational, and political skills – not just good “project management.”. Portfolio Management.

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What is a project management office (PMO)? The key to standardizing project success

CIO Business Intelligence

Project management office (PMO) definition A project management office (PMO) is a group, or functional unit, that sets, maintains, and enforces the practices, policies, and standards for structuring and executing projects within an organization.

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The Most Simple, Agile, Portfolio Management Tool

Social, Agile and Transformation

Today, I am going to share the most simple, agile, program management tool. It doesn''t require an expensive enterprise portfolio management tool and can be easily implemented in almost any SaaS database or workflow tool that can support lists and forms. about me agile planning cio it management project management'

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Attend the 6 Feb @Cloudera Federal Forum: For the Analyst, Data Scientist, #BigData Technologist in DC

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Matt Carroll – General Manager, 42Six, a CSC Company. Marshall – Deputy Program Manager, NSG Program Management Office, IT Service Directorate, National Geospatial Intelligence Agency. 11:00 AM Government Panel. Moderated by LTG (R) Richard Zahner. Noon Morning Wrap Up. 12:15 PM Lunch.

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