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IT Project Management

View Available Dates and LocationsLearn the fundamentals and best practices of project management methodology as applied to IT initiatives, and practice and master the skills you need to deliver IT projects on time, within budget, and to specification. Examine all aspects of IT projects, including hardware, software,...

Tags: Dallas, Washington, Information Technology, IT Project Management, Strategy, Project Management, Management, It Operations, It service Management

Training 2008-01-01

Develop an agile approach to IT project management

This sample chapter, taken from Agile Estimating and Planning, discusses the importance of agile teams to your organization. This sample chapter, taken from Agile Estimating and Planning, discusses the importance of agile teams to your organization. Learn about the three levels of planning encorporated by agile teams:...

Tags: Team, Information Technology, Prentice Hall Inc., IT Project Management, Team Management, Management

Book chapters 2006-04-28

Manufacturer Streamlines IT Project Management, Resource Allocation, and Scheduling

RHI is the world's leading manufacturer of high-grade ceramic products for high-temperature industrial processes. It has IT systems in place to support a range of business processes, including financial management, logistics, and production. These must be constantly upgraded and maintained, requiring the RHI IT team to manage a large number...

Tags: Information Technology, Manufacturer, Allocation, Microsoft Corp., IT Project Management, RHI, Financial Management, Supply Chain, Financial Accounting, Investment, Manufacturing, Financial Planning, Finance, Business Operations

Case studies 2006-03-01

When Bad Things Happen to Good Projects

It goes against human nature to always expect the worst. But with IT projects, pessimism - otherwise known as contingency planning - is the only way to keep small technology problems from becoming full-blown business disasters. IT project management has become high art while business contingency planning remains in the...

Tags: Contingency Planning, Information Technology, IT Project Management, International Data Group, Business Security, Project Management, Strategy, Business Operations, It Operations, It service Management, Management

White papers 2004-12-01

Microsoft Webcast: How the Microsoft EPM Solution Can Benefit Government IT Project Management Offices

Many government Information Technology IT organizations are turning to their project management offices PMOs to help them manage their work more effectively. This webcast explains how the Microsoft Office Enterprise Project Management EPM Solution can support the PMO by streamlining and standardizing processes, encouraging better communication and collaboration, minimizing costs,...

Tags: Webcast, Information Technology, Benefit, Microsoft Corp., IT Project Management, Project Management Office, Government, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management

Webcasts

DB Systems GmbH Streamlines Operations and More Closely Aligns Services to Customer Requirements

DB Systems GmbH is a full-service IT provider that develops and manages innovative IT solutions for transportation, logistics, and central management processes. The company wanted to reduce costs by streamlining IT operations. The challenge was to improve efficiency in key areas, such IT project management and resources planning, by migrating...

Tags: PeopleSoft Inc., Oracle Corp., Information Technology, IT Project Management, DB Systems GmbH, Project Management, Strategy, Supply Chain, It Operations, It service Management, Management, Business Operations

Case studies

Additional Resources

Gantt Chart for Workgroup 2.4 (Windows)

The Gantt Chart for Workgroup is a modern and extremely easy-in-use project plan system with the additional capability to share data over the network. This system allows you to specify complex tasks sequences - a task or multiple tasks can be required to be completed before other tasks can be...

Tags: Gantt Chart, Microsoft Windows, OrgBusiness Software

Software downloads 2009-11-06

Golden Rules Organizer 1.5.4 (Windows)

Golden Rules Organizer is professional organizer and goal system. It provides three planning levels: mission & values, projects, recurring and one-time activities. Planner facility supports auto-renewed periodical plans (e.g., daily, weekly, half-yearly) with objectives and completion tracking. Supporting facilities include unlimited-size, rich text descriptions, log / diary, effort tracking, contacts...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Activity, Golden-Rules, Golden-Rules Organizer

Software downloads 2009-11-02

How to put the 'lean' in Lean IT

Vista was lean!All developers - no testers ;-)The worst I've seenWere a couple projects that had someone called a Configuration Control Manager. What a useless twit she was. Someone in charge of settings. Probably no surprise it was some friend of the senior manager who followed him...

Tags: Lean IT, IT IS

Discussion threads 2009-10-31

Splendid City Sports Scheduler 6.7.3 (Mac)

Splendid City Team Sports Scheduler, and Sports Scheduling Software System is useful for people who organize team sports or game events. Use it to manage and publish sports schedules of any size and complexity. Automatically create high quality double or single elimination tournament brackets, round-robin league schedules, swiss round tournaments,...

Tags: Web, Team, Apple Macintosh, City Sports Inc., Web Site, Niagara Software, User Experience, Time Management, Web Site Development, Team Management, Games, Web Technology, Channel Management, Productivity, Internet, Management, Personal Technology, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-10-31

SEEdit Pro 1.8.0fc1 (Mac)

With SEEdit's fast and powerful Editor Toolbox, insertion of code and classes are always just one click away. SEEdit's handy advanced Tag Editor also handles CSS classes and Javascript functions. Other powerful features to assist professionals and hobbyists worldwide include Tidy Checker for standards-compliant code, the Quick CSS Tool for...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Insertion, Sven E Olsson, SEEdit, Insert RSS Item Tool, CSS, Xhtml, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development

Software downloads 2009-10-31

Five reasons to deliver a virtual service, not a virtual server

What began as an interesting technological experiment has now become an opportunity for IT to shape its future, says Fortisphere's Lilac Berniker Commentary - As virtualization becomes an increasingly commonplace technology in the datacenter, the breadth of stakeholders in the virtual environment is growing. ...

Tags: Information Technology, Workload, Virtual Server, Server, Strategy, Management, virtualization, Lilac Berniker Fortisphere, Special to ZDNet, Lilac Berniker Fortisphere, Special to ZDNet

News items 2009-10-29

News to know: L.A. goes Google; AMD-Galleon; Cisco-ScanSafe; Ubuntu; Amazon RDS

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage.: Larry Dignan: WSJ: AMD's former CEO was a Galleon tipster Sam Diaz: Cisco continues its buying spree with...

Tags: Tom Foremski, Ubuntu, Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Dana Blankenhorn, ScanSafe, Mary Jo Foley, Amazon.com Inc., Cisco Systems Inc., Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Data Centers, Microsoft Windows, Tablets, Internet, Databases, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Operating Systems, Software, Notebooks & Tablets, Enterprise Software

Blog posts 2009-10-28

RationalPlan Multi Project 3.15.6 (Windows)

RationalPlan Multi Project by Stand By Soft is a powerful project management software designed to assist project managers in developing plans, allocating resources, tracking progress, managing budgets and analyzing workload. If you are working in the area of construction, engineering, services&consulting, business, software development or even working on a simple...

Tags: Project, Microsoft Windows, Tools & Techniques, Project Management, Software Development, Strategy, Management, It Operations, It service Management, Software/Web Development

Software downloads 2009-10-27

RationalPlan Project Viewer 3.15.6 (Windows)

RationalPlan Project Viewer by Stand By Soft is a free project management software viewer, the perfect solution for anyone from project stakeholders to team workers to view your projects in detail. Usually project managers plan and control the projects from start to end and make the necessary changes. However, there...

Tags: Stakeholder, Microsoft Windows, Tools & Techniques, Project Management, Strategy, Management, It Operations, It service Management

Software downloads 2009-10-27

Can open source software stop IT failure?

I'm not so sure #1 is valid#1 is a variation of "many eyes make all bugs shallow"Does it help? Yes. But it also makes the implicit assumption that everyone that can view the code is competent to do so. So it goes back to resource allocation being an issue, if...

Tags: Strategy, OPEN SOURCE, information technology, IT Failure, F/OSS, software, open-source software

Discussion threads 2009-10-26

Learning from the weak signals of failure

Sometimes a refusal to listen . . .Sometimes it's a refusal of top level management to listen to lower level employees as well. NASA was notorious for having unsatisfied employees who knew key facts about issues, but ignored them, even if the employee was proactive about trying to contact somebody...

Tags: Team management, weak signal

Discussion threads 2009-10-26

MSFT versus GOOG - there's a big gap

Countering Google[i]At the current rate of Google?s revenue growth, 7 per cent, it would take it more than 3 years to reach Microsoft?s current quarterly revenue.[/i]The above is true if you assume MS will have no growth over the next 3 years. I don't think that will be the case....

Tags: Web browsers, Operational accounting, Strategy, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-10-23

So about this SIF thing

Difficulties in implementationLong before I retired from being a computer coordinator for our district, SIF was in the news.The reality for my district was changing Student Information Management software three times in 10 years (and a fourth since '06 when I retired). In each case, the transfer of data from...

Tags: Text messaging/SMS/MMS, Cellular phones, SIF

Discussion threads 2009-10-23

Advanced Time Reports Web Premier 8.18.200 (Windows)

Advanced Time Reports Web will help you increase your billable hours by better managing all your projects, clients and working hours. All of ATR functionality now available in pure 100% web-based application. Manage your projects, receive updates, create reports and view team schedules - all remotely from any place in...

Tags: Web, Team, Microsoft Windows, Xpress Software, Team Management, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Management, It Operations, It service Management

Software downloads 2009-10-22