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

CIO Business Intelligence

Closing phase: To complete a project, project managers must close all phases and procurements, settle budgets, hand over deliverables, conduct project post-mortems and reports, and return personnel to the resource pool Project management skills Effective project managers need more than technical know-how.

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6 smart practices for better business-IT alignment

CIO Business Intelligence

The benefits of improved business-IT collaboration include things such as projects that better fit business goals, improved change management, and better buy-in for new initiatives. That person is now a Scrum master at a major insurance company. Darren Person The NPD Group.

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Product-based IT: A blueprint for success

CIO Business Intelligence

Digging through research examining the impact of standard conventions like siloed teams and staged gate processes, Arooni began percolating ideas for how to shift IT organizations away from the traditional project-oriented culture to something more agile, with greater business accountability and more responsiveness to changing customer needs.