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20 traits of highly effective project managers

CIO Business Intelligence

To thrive, project managers need to have and hone a complex combination of technical, business, and interpersonal skills. Effective project managers must know how to define the scope of a project , identify necessary resources, and schedule those resources — all part of the technical aspect of the job.

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

CIO Business Intelligence

Project management office (PMO) definition A project management office (PMO) is a group, or functional unit, that sets, maintains, and enforces the practices, policies, and standards for structuring and executing projects within an organization.

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Big Data Project Management: Data Must Flow!

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I'm currently researching big data project management in order to better understand what makes big data projects different from other tech related projects. So far I've interviewed more than a dozen government, private sector, and academic professionals, all of them experienced in managing data intensive projects.

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The Tip of the Spear II: Connecting Big Data Project Management with Enterprise Data Strategy

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Department of Transportation's CIO, describes four components for what I call an “enterprise data strategy”: Data governance. Managing data is not the same as analyzing it. We need to be thinking now about what type of analysis we need to be doing and what resources will be needed to do the analysis. Portfolio Management.

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Big Data Project Management: What’s In & What’s Out?

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A project to support development of an enterprise level “data science” program to provide data analytics support to a range of departmental programs and initiatives will be different both in type and scale. In the real world the distinctions between these two “big data” project types may not be so cut and dried. Discussion.

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4 Reasons Your ERP Project Management Team Must Be Top Notch

IT Toolbox

Stories about enterprise resource planning (ERP) projects that fail are not in short supply. In most cases, those failures aren’t related to the ERP implementation process nearly as much as to the people—the project managers—driving the implementation.