Almost everything IT does can be considered a project -- from hardware and software upgrades to ongoing security patches, virus scanning and spam filtering to application development and rollout itself. Adding a project management certification to your list of IT credentials is a great way to benchmark your skills for potential employers and show that you have the know-how to plan, schedule, budget, execute, deliver and report on IT initiatives. Here, CIO.com outlines the 10 most popular project management certifications.
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Showing posts with label project management. Show all posts
Monday, 13 July 2015
Top 10 project management certifications
Project management certifications
Almost everything IT does can be considered a project -- from hardware and software upgrades to ongoing security patches, virus scanning and spam filtering to application development and rollout itself. Adding a project management certification to your list of IT credentials is a great way to benchmark your skills for potential employers and show that you have the know-how to plan, schedule, budget, execute, deliver and report on IT initiatives. Here, CIO.com outlines the 10 most popular project management certifications.
Almost everything IT does can be considered a project -- from hardware and software upgrades to ongoing security patches, virus scanning and spam filtering to application development and rollout itself. Adding a project management certification to your list of IT credentials is a great way to benchmark your skills for potential employers and show that you have the know-how to plan, schedule, budget, execute, deliver and report on IT initiatives. Here, CIO.com outlines the 10 most popular project management certifications.
Tuesday, 28 August 2012
10 Key Questions to Assess Application Outsourcing Maturity
As more companies look to external IT service providers to help them both innovate and optimize, many are initially surprised by the amount of change required for a relationship to work successfully -- issues that extend well beyond onboarding supplemental, temporary staff. Many companies think that the key to outsourcing success is selecting the right partner, but even the best partner will disappoint you if you are not prepared and organized for an outsourcing arrangement.
In Forrester's Services Sourcing Playbook research, my colleagues and I maintain that it is critical for companies embarking on an outsourcing journey or trying to optimize their existing outsourcing relationships to ask themselves the following 10 questions in order to assess maturity and identify weaknesses. Without effective project and program management, internal process consistency, management and change control processes, and a mature vendor management function, it will be difficult -- or nearly impossible -- for organizations to work with external IT services suppliers effectively.
1. Project management track record.
2. Project management expertise.
3. Central program management.
4. Communication and collaboration tools.
5. Internal process consistency.
6. Software development process maturity.
7. Requirements definitions and management capability.
8. Managing to SLAs.
9. User acceptance testing rigor.
10. Vendor management function.
Monday, 16 April 2012
10 project management lessons from the Titanic disaster
One hundred years ago this month, RMS Titanic sank after striking an iceberg. More than fifteen hundred people died in that disaster. The event has been the subject of books and movies, but it also provides a few stark illustrations regarding project management mistakes and oversights. Here are seven lessons that relate to the sinking itself and three that involve the recovery of the victims.
1: You need to know what you’re measuring
2: Assumptions can kill you
3: Distractions are dangerous
4: Little things add up
5: Stakeholders should be kept informed
6: Other people’s perspectives matter
7: Moving targets can hurt you
8: Traceability is essential
9: Methodology is more important than technology
10: Documentation may have lasting benefits
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1: You need to know what you’re measuring
2: Assumptions can kill you
3: Distractions are dangerous
4: Little things add up
5: Stakeholders should be kept informed
6: Other people’s perspectives matter
7: Moving targets can hurt you
8: Traceability is essential
9: Methodology is more important than technology
10: Documentation may have lasting benefits
Read the full post
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