If your project stakeholder has gone missing, you are right to feel concerned. No news is not good news with stakeholder engagement. There are several things a PM can do to rescue the situation, though.
Financial pressures and intense business competition have made business organizations and their IT departments rethink operational, employee, and financial resources by outsourcing part or all of their business processes to third-party providers. Some outsource savvy organizations have managed to identify exactly which parts of their internal processes should be handled by service providers and to what extent the relationship must be put into service.
Open source software – it is so indispensible in the IT world today that it can be found in Fortune 500 corporations, governments, and even academic institutions. Sun Microsystems, in its white paper, Open Source in the Enterprise: Fulfilling the Promise, cites the reasons why enterprises embrace open source software and provides some valuable tips.
Today, there is a continuing demand for businesses to be transparent about internal processes, finances, and performance metrics. As businesses look to computing to cut costs while increasing revenues, CTOs, IT Managers, and just about everyone at the management level must justify the existence of projects, software and hardware systems - and even personnel. In this light, business intelligence may be viewed as a necessary evil by some people, but there is no denying that this type of intelligence is after all necessary, as it has never played a more dramatic role than today.
As organizations modernize to meet computing demands, they face enormous challenges when it comes to the topic of retiring old applications. Consigning old applications to the backburner in favor of newer, safer, more stable, and more user-friendly systems is never as easy as it sounds.
by Rob Llewellyn - After working in many countries around the world in dozens of organisations with 1000’s of professionals from all walks of life, I’ve come across an interesting mix of managers and leaders.
by Mel Duvall, CIOZone - It may only be installed on 2% of mobile devices today, but by 2012 research firm Gartner believes Google’s Android mobile operating system could leap into second place globally. In fact, Gartner believes Android will enjoy such a surge in popularity that it will capture 14% of the global smartphone market in 2012, putting it ahead of Windows Mobile, BlackBerry smartphones and even the Apple iPhone.
If the cost, time, and quality benefits of software product line approach are significant, then why is this method for building a product line portfolio not getting the attention it supposedly deserves? Some of the most cited obstacles to product line adoption are investment, development processes, and inadequate knowledge/talent.
Recently I did an interview talking about the most important attributes of an effective project manager and those attributes which undermine a person's ability to manage projects well. It was fun putting together the list and I thought I would share my raw bullets with you.
The Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute developed the People Capability Maturity Model (P-CMM) to help businesses manage knowledge workers across global borders, as well as between graying and millennial generations. Similar to CMMI, P-CMM has five maturity levels, but the model is focused on the need to improve the capabilities of a workforce as a differentiating factor from the competition.
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