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Project management: Tips, tools, best practices

CIO Business Intelligence

Scope management: Define scope, create work breakdown structure (WBS), gather requirements. Time management: Plan and develop schedules and activities, estimate resources and timelines. Costs management: Estimate costs, determine budgets. Quality management: Identify quality requirements. Budget for surprises.

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

CIO Business Intelligence

Debra Chin, a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and program manager/consultant with ROC Implementation & Management Group (ROCIMG), describes the PMO more succinctly, saying, “It’s a centralized point that helps manage projects.”

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Do You Seek To Support DoD? Selling your Requirements – in a fiscally constrained year

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As the DoD budget continues to decline, we can expect extra scrutiny on each and every funded program. This is just one example of a persistent problem in DoD: quantifying requirements and resources. If you serve DoD efforts and can help them better quantify your contributions you may save your program.

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3 key digital transformation priorities for 2024

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Luckily, many are expanding budgets to do so. “94% These practices include leadership and delivery practices backed by operational and risk management competencies, and it’s these competencies where research shows many organizations are lagging.

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IT leaders take on pandemic tech debt

CIO Business Intelligence

For example, Software AG’s 2022 Situation report found that 78% of companies said they took on more technical debt over the past year; more than half (56%) said they accepted the burden of technical debt because they were required to act quickly. Gary Flowers. Steen Hambric. City of Phoenix.

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Schneider Electric leverages AI to help develop employees’ careers

CIO Business Intelligence

For example, Felix Ramos, who manages a software application that is in high demand from internal employees and external customers, turned to OTM to expand the capabilities of his team, which is small and operates with limited budget. “We I will often take time to reflect on my OTM [work] and its relation to my current job.”

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Balanced Governance: When Failure is Not an Option

CIO Business Intelligence

For example, a transformation program team that pushes out the end date of development can create an overlap with validation phases like system, integration and user acceptance testing (SIT and UAT). Team dependencies, as well as activities and goals of each program team, must be knitted together and aligned with transformation value.