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- Establishing and Managing the Project Management Office
- View Available Dates and Locations This course offers the opportunity to engage in a complete examination of the Project Management Office - its role and purpose, the different models used, and how an organization would approach establishing a PMO. Learn proven methods of establishing, managing, and...
- Tags: New York, PMO, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Corporate Governance, It Operations, It service Management, Management, Business Operations, Corporate Law
- Training 2008-01-01
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- Can project portfolio management prevent IT train wrecks?
- Project portfolio management PPM vendors promise to help customers juggle competing investment priorities, reduce IT failures, and improve alignment between technology and their business. Given these impressive benefits, it's worth examining what's required to successfully implement PPM. To learn more about the issues, I attended ...
- Tags: Information Technology, Project Portfolio Management, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, It Operations, It service Management, Management, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-03-06
- NakedIT: JP Rangaswami says, 'Don't call them IT projects'
- NakedIT: JP Rangaswami says, 'Don't call them IT projects'Most tangible elementProjects, especially challenging ones, tend to focus on their most tangible and short-term measurable aspects. Budgets and schedules are tangible. Whether a server is in place or not is tangible. Whether an application is accessible to the...
- Tags: Strategy, IT Project, NakedIT, information technology, JP Rangaswami, Business Value
- Discussion threads 2008-02-13
- Project portfolio management and IT governance
- Can project portfolio management PPM help prevent IT failures? To find out, I spoke with David Hurwitz, Vice President of Marketing, and Steve Romero, IT Governance Evangelist, from CA's Clarity PPM solutions group. Implementing IT governance is important for organizations charged with overseeing groups of projects. Although...
- Tags: IT Governance, Information Technology, Problem, Project Portfolio Management, IT Governance Institute, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2007-12-21
- Catalyst PMO: Driving Innovation & Business Value
- The Project Management Office PMO can play a vital role in making a significant and clear contribution to business innovation, helping to improve performance, reduce risk and enhance value. By integrating and driving processes surrounding culture, visibility, credibility, collaboration and governance, the PMO can leverage its strengths in planning, execution...
- Tags: Innovation, Cisco Catalyst, Oracle Corp., Leadership, Strategy, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Management, It Operations, It service Management
- White papers 2007-12-01
- Banrisul Uses IBM Rational Software to Achieve Significant Cost Savings by Reducing the Number of Labor Hours Required to Complete IT Projects
- The official bank for the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul, Banrisul is dedicated to promoting the social and economic development of the state. To maintain business-critical systems, Banrisul had been relying on an outdated project methodology that ran on an IBM z/OS platform in distributed environments, leading to...
- Tags: Software, Information Technology, IBM Corp., Strategy, Tools & Techniques, Financial Services, Management
- Case studies 2006-09-01
- Taking Your PMO to the Next Step: The Office of the CIO
- Project management offices PMOs have long been responsible for overseeing and developing project management expertise, but forward-thinking companies are now considering them for a new role: the office of the CIO. In addition to maintaining their existing responsibilities, these structures and the resources within them are becoming the business managers...
- Tags: CIO, Microsoft Office, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management
- Research reports 2005-09-22
- OMB 'throwing out' current Core.gov, starting over
- Core.gov - the federal government's repository of reusable components - is undergoing a major revamp, according to Dick Burk, the government's chief architect at OMB, Federal Computer Week reports. While Core.gov holds a lot of components, those applications that can be linked with others to complete business transactions,...
- Tags: CORE.GOV, Dick Burk
- Blog posts 2005-09-15
- Advanced Project Portfolio Management and the PMO: Multiplying ROI at Warp Speed
- It should be noted that the background of author Gerry Kendall is as a consultant, strategic planner and public speaker, while Steve Rollins's interest is in Enterprise Program/Project Management Office/Project Office startups and improvements. The focus of both authors is on the information systems/information technology sector projects in large functional...
- Tags: AEW Services, Project Portfolio Management, ROI, Roi/Tco, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Finance, Managerial Accounting, It Operations, It service Management, Management
- White papers 2005-08-22
- The Value Proposition of Outsourcing PMO Activities Within Project Driven Organisations
- The core of a project management offering is the PMO or Project/Program Management Office. This can take typically one of four forms depending on the level of responsibility and accountability placed upon it by the business. At one end of the scale it can be a supporting service collecting and...
- Tags: Outsourcing, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management
- White papers 2005-08-04
- Law Firm Improves Project Management Processes, Boosts Productivity
- Foley & Lardner LLP, a law firm with offices and clients throughout the world, wanted to adopt a model of IT Governance, aligning IT goals with business objectives. Toward that end, the firm's Program Management Office PMO needed enterprisewide control of all IT projects. But without adequate tools or formal...
- Tags: Project Management, Project, Information Technology, Foley & Lardner, Enterprise Project Management Solution, Litigation, Strategy, Business Operations, Management
- Case studies 2005-06-10
- FY07 Budget Formulation: FEA Consolidated Reference Model Document
- The Office of Management and Budget's OMB Office of E-Government (E-Gov) and Information Technology IT, with the support of the General Services Administration GSA and the Federal Chief Information Officers CIO Council, established the Federal Enterprise Architecture FEA Program which builds a comprehensive business-driven blueprint of the entire Federal government....
- Tags: Information Technology, White House, Government, E-government, Microsoft Office, Strategy, Office Suites, Software, Management
- White papers 2005-05-01
- Project Management Office White Paper
- There are many varieties of Project Management Office PMO implementations, but generally the PMO supports a company's project management methodology to enable the organization to consistently deliver projects faster, cheaper, with higher quality, and within estimates and expectations. This paper offers insights into how eProject can provide a solution for...
- Tags: Microsoft Office, eProject Inc., Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management
- White papers 2004-12-01
- Evolving the Project Management Office: A Competency Continuum
- Many organizations today have recognized the need for a Project Management Office PMO to achieve project management oversight, control, and support. The PMO's role is to help both the project manager and the relevant organization to not only understand and apply modern project management practices, but also to adapt and...
- Tags: Project Management Office, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management
- White papers 2004-09-22
- Establishing a Project Management Office
- When an organization wants to establish project management processes, setting up a Project Management Office PMO might be the best way to ensure that consistent processes are followed. Here are the main things you'll have to address when starting a PMO.
- Tags: Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management
- Download resources 2003-09-09
- Managing Effective Programs With the IBM Rational Solution Webcast
- In this Webcast IBM describe a unified approach to program management. Showing how a program office or PMO can effectively manage their projects by applying best practice and ensuring success. As organizations try and grapple with the need to ensure success, more and more projects run within the context of...
- Tags: Project, Webcast, IBM Corp., Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Webcasts
- Major University Succeeds With a PeopleSoft Financials Integration and Implementation
- A large university with over 40,000 students needed a PeopleSoft Financials integration and implementation for the University, Medical Center, and the Research Foundation. The project cost nearly $30M, and spanned 2.5 years with 2,000 direct end users and was completed in 2004. This is the largest PeopleSoft integration endeavor in...
- Tags: PeopleSoft Inc., Integration, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management
- Case studies
- Benchmark Implementation: Primavera Case Study
- Compaq's original business case for the Primavera implementation of Primavera software anticipated far-reaching effects throughout the enterprise1. However, external events, such as Compaq's merger with HP, moved so quickly that Compaq's PMO was thrust into the limelight, reconstituted as the organization's PMO, and given multiple new responsibilities. The merger demanded...
- Tags: Primavera Systems Inc., Compaq Computer Corp., Mergers & Acquisitions, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Investment, Finance, It Operations, It service Management, Management
- Case studies
- Managing Your ITIL Compliance and Process Improvement Initiative
- This webcast explains why one should consider going beyond conventional weapons of project management (Excel Spread Sheets, MS Project etc.), and embrace the power of automation to drive ITIL compliance initiatives. The complexity of this effort at every level requires an automated workflow that incorporates the ITIL framework, task management,...
- Tags: MKS Inc., ITIL, Process Improvement, It Services, Quality, Business Operations
- Webcasts
- Mobilizing HP: Project Management as an Executive Priority
- Compaq's original business case for the Primavera implementation of Primavera software anticipated far-reaching effects throughout the enterprise. However, external events, such as Compaq's merger with HP, moved so quickly that Compaq's Program Management Office PMO was thrust into the limelight, reconstituted as the organization's PMO, and given multiple new responsibilities....
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Primavera Systems Inc., Compaq Computer Corp., Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Mergers & Acquisitions, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management, Investment, Finance
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