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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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What is a project manager? The lead role for project success

CIO Business Intelligence

What is a project manager? Project managers play the lead role in planning, executing, monitoring, controlling, and closing out projects. They are accountable for the entire project scope , the project team and resources, the project budget, and the success or failure of the project.

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Software project management challenges — and how to handle them

CIO Business Intelligence

One possible solution is to embrace the agile methodology of software development. Agile calls for collaboration among cross-functional teams as well as end users, and promotes adaptive planning, evolutionary development, continual improvement, flexibility in responding to changes in requirements and early delivery of products.

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7 tell-tale signs of fake agile

CIO Business Intelligence

The same is not true, sadly, for many agile project management and development initiatives. Too often, an organization may launch something that looks like an agile program, calls itself an agile program, claims to operate like an agile program, yet really isn’t an agile program in the least.

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Streamlining IT for agility

CIO Business Intelligence

There’s never been more pressure on IT to deliver technology-enabled change to the business. CIO.com talked with four IT leaders about what’s driving their efforts to streamline IT for greater agility, how they’re doing it, what the biggest challenges are, and the tricks they’ve uncovered for doing it well.

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Digital pragmatism at Volvo means more control and less agile

CIO Business Intelligence

Now it’s largely standard systems going in and, unlike before, the strategy is to adapt them as little as possible. We need to take greater responsibility for the development of our digital products and not act as an internal supplier to our business.” But even with great advantages came disadvantages.

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Streamlining IT for agility

CIO Business Intelligence

There’s never been more pressure on IT to deliver technology-enabled change to the business. CIO.com talked with four IT leaders about what’s driving their efforts to streamline IT for greater agility, how they’re doing it, what the biggest challenges are, and the tricks they’ve uncovered for doing it well.

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