tailieunhanh - PROJECT MANAGEMENT IN A INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (IT) WORLD

Being clear about the business objectives for implementing a PMO or developing its role is essential if it is to deliver significant improvements in project performance and justify the cost. Which and how many of the four objectives we described at the start are relevant will depend on the business problems the PMO is intended to overcome. Once the problems are clear and agreed, the type and range of services required to address them can be defined. This will determine the type of PMO that is needed. Only then can the type of skill and expertise needed by the PMO. | Comprehensive Consulting Solutions Inc. - Business Savvy. IT Smart Professional Project Management - The Value Proposition White Paper Published March 2001 with revisions Project Management in a Information Technology IT World Contents Preface 1 Overview 2 Project Evolution 2 Project Management Basics 2 One major change 3 A successful project plan will contain the following 3 Who defines the project 4 Lack of qualified Project Managers 5 Selecting a Project Manager 5 Business evolution - Management-by-Projects 5 Problems still occur 6 Summary 6 Let Us Help You Succeed 6 Preface The playwright George Bernard Shaw once said The road to Hell is paved with good intentions not with bad ones. All men mean well. This white paper will give you insight into successful project management - that is professional project management as differentiated from a collection of well meaning activities. 2 Professional Project Management - The Value Proposition Overview Project management doesn t qualify as one of the world s oldest professions but it has been with us for several decades. The Information Technology IT industry was among the early adopters of this new way of doing things. However even though the IT industry started adapting early it lagged far behind other industries that were already implementing complex and sophisticated methods of managing their projects. Initially and for many years to come IT projects were managed primarily as exercises in controlling the budget and the time spent by personnel in completing their tasks. Fortunately IT has grown-up over the intervening years. Today most large IT organizations are dealing with tens and sometimes hundreds of simultaneous projects. Obviously the management techniques needed to effectively deal with such volumes of work must not only allow for accurate cost and time accounting but also render fundamental management decisions easier to make allow for the tracking of multiple critical paths within a given project and .