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Driving IT Projects: The Value of the Project Management Officer

Information Week

Project management officers can be a valuable resource as organizations take on complex, transformational projects, offering guidance and leadership.

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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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20 traits of highly effective project managers

CIO Business Intelligence

To thrive, project managers need to have and hone a complex combination of technical, business, and interpersonal skills. Effective project managers must know how to define the scope of a project , identify necessary resources, and schedule those resources — all part of the technical aspect of the job.

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SAP customers struggle with S/4HANA migration

CIO Business Intelligence

The complexity of the project and the required resources are underestimated, while organizational competence is overestimated. More than 40% would increase the budget from the outset, and 30% would reduce the project scope. This mismatch leads to the enormous discrepancies between plan and results, he says.

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Drive Better Results for Your Professional Services Firm Part 2: Deliver Profitable Projects

Speaker: Patrick Connally and Andy Yeomans

Many factors can impact the ultimate profitability of professional services projects. Inaccurate or unrealistic project estimates, ineffective resource management, and lack of visibility into project burn rates and progress can all negatively impact the overall performance and profitability of a project.

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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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Product-based IT: 6 key steps for making the switch

CIO Business Intelligence

Most IT departments are under-resourced and left to debate what capabilities, improvements, and fixes to prioritize. People in business functions didnt want to give up their project mindsets and control of getting what they needed from IT in the timelines required. But many enterprises stopped their agile transformations at this layer.