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

CTOvision

Department of Transportation's CIO, describes four components for what I call an “enterprise data strategy”: Data governance. He also mentions additional factors relevant to DOT’s data strategy: The volume of data is increasing and we need to be ready for it. Managing data is not the same as analyzing it. Data sharing.

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Software project management challenges — and how to handle them

CIO Business Intelligence

The need for efficient software development has taken on greater importance as enterprises introduce more and more digital services and add automation capabilities to enhance business processes. Managing software projects might not be at the top of CIOs’ priority lists , but it is something that IT leaders will have to master.

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To Become Future Fit, Ditch The PMO Moniker

Forrester IT

Over the past few months, we have been interviewing project management office (PMO) professionals and asking them about how they operate their enterprise portfolio management offices at their respective organizations.

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Big Data Project Management: Data Must Flow!

CTOvision

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

CTOvision

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. This is one of a series of posts that examine big data initiatives from a project management perspective.