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Changes to the PMBOK® Guide, 4th Edition, and What You Should Know

In December 2008, The Project Management Institute (PMI®) released the 4th edition version of A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge® (PMBOK® Guide), the Project Management Institute's collection of published "generally recognized good practices". This white paper discusses what has changed in the new 4th edition Guide...

Tags: Global Knowledge, PMBOK, Project Management Institute

White papers 2009-02-24

PMP SLAP 1 (Windows)

PMP SLAP is a study aid for learning the relationships of processes and their inputs, tools and techniques, and outputs as described by the Project Management Institute PMI in their publication, A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge PMBOK Guide - Third Edition. This version is the first...

Tags: PMBOK, Project Management Institute, PMP SLAP, Productivity, Microsoft Windows, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Operating Systems, Software, It Operations, It service Management, Management

Software downloads 2008-01-21

Just-in-Time Training - Using a Model of Project Results Versus Team Enablers to Identify Post-PMP Training

For some time, the authors' have been developing what they call a two-dimensional model for measuring project performance and project management training. The model was initiated as a quality management tool and has evolved through the recent activity regarding Project Maturity Models to the current stage of predicting project outcomes...

Tags: Team, Quality Management, Project Management Institute, JIT, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Quality, Strategy, Training And Certification, It Operations, It service Management, Management, Business Operations

White papers 2005-03-19

Organizational Project Management Maturity Model (OPM3): Knowledge Foundation

The Organizational Project Management Maturity Model (OPM3) falls naturally within the sequence of Standards published by the Project Management Institute PMI. A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge PMBOK Guide has become the de facto Standard for managing individual projects and is the reference of choice for the...

Tags: Knowledge, Project Management Institute, OPM3, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management

White papers 2004-02-02

A Comparison of Academic and Government Information Security Curriculum Standards

This paper compares the ISECON model curriculum approach and topic areas to the National Security Agency's most common standard for information assurance certification - the National Security Telecommunications and Information Systems Security Instruction NSTISSI No. 4011. Comparing these two standards provides a unique vantage point to better examine the merits...

Tags: Information Security, Project Management Institute, Standards, Government, Quality, Security, Business Operations

White papers 2003-12-27

Additional Resources

Uptime Institute Seminar

I'm on my way to the Uptime Institute's How to Plan, Justify, and Manage a Major Data Center Project seminar in Atlanta, GA. I hope to meet some of the attendees as well as members of the Institute's staff. Who is the Uptime Institue? Here's how the Institute...

Tags: Data Center, Uptime, Uptime Institute, Institute, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-10-19

What Is Formal Project Management and Who Needs It?

Over the past 15 years, project management as a profession has migrated from construction and manufacturing into virtually all other business sectors, including the IT sector. The Project Management Institute PMI and the British Office of Government Commerce OGC have developed practice standards to encourage and guide the adoption of...

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

White papers 2009-08-21

Take steps to prevent IT myopia [video]

Take steps to prevent IT myopia [video]Project management as an enablerYou make the case that project management inhibits IT strategic business value. However, each tips you present to stop viewing IT in project-related terms are clearly articulated in the Project Management Institute's PMI project process rigor for anyone's Project...

Tags: Strategy, Tools & Techniques, Purchasing & Procurement, Quality, video, information technology, project management, PMI, risk management plan

Discussion threads 2009-07-02

One example of "smarter planet"

The smart grid for electricity has become so mainstream Congress wrote it into the stimulus law enacted earlier this year. IBM's marketing of "smarter planet" goes way beyond electricity and networked grid. I recently spoke with Drew Clark, director of strategy of IBM Venture Capital Group. And...

Tags: Sensor, Grid, IBM Corp., Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-06-21

Interview with Andrea Vaccari, research associate at MIT's SENSEable City Laboratory

Now that machine and sensor data is joining social data traffic on the Internet, the ability to interpret and create meaning out of the information to improve life could be the post-Web 2.0 manifesto. MIT's Senseable City Lab has been on the task for years with various...

Tags: City, Mobile, Network, Data, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Cell Phone, Analysis, SENSEable City Laboratory, Cellular Phones, Networking, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Chris Jablonski

Blog posts 2009-04-06

Risk Management on Enterprise Architecture and System Integration

This paper highlights and consolidates interesting risk management topics for enterprise information systems from enterprise architect and system integration perspectives. The paper first highlights concepts of advanced risk modelling, enterprise architecture and how these two disciplines are related. Afterwards, the paper will consolidate all the common risk factors people have...

Tags: System Integration, Enterprise Architecture, Risk Management, Integration, Project Perfect, Strategy, Financial Planning, Financial Services, Management, Finance

White papers 2009-04-03

Survey: technology investments boost odds of success

If you're looking for evidence that technology investments can make a difference in your company's success, a survey made available by The Economist Intelligence Unit and underwritten by Oracle may help supply you with some ammunition for your argument. (Available for download here.) Overall, 78% of survey...

Tags: Information Technology, Technology Investment, Survey, Strategy, Marketing Research, Management, Marketing, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-03-26

IBM is looking less and less like an IT company and more and more like an eco-tech company

Trick question: How many liters of water does it take to make a pair of jeans? One estimated answer: 10,855. Think about what it'll also take to wash them over their life-time and it's pretty easy to see why many of the companies talking...

Tags: Information Technology, IBM Corp., Operational Planning, Business Operations, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-03-16

Does Kundra have an impossible job as Obama's federal CIO?

On Thursday, U.S. President Barack Obama named Vivek Kundra as the CIO of the federal government. Kunda below is a 34 year-old IT leader with a strong reputation in the tech community. He has track record for driving efficiency and transparency, and has shown a penchant for bold actions such...

Tags: Job, CIO, CTO, Information Technology, Vivek Kundra, Government Operation, Federal Government, Government, Strategy, Management, Jason Hiner

Blog posts 2009-03-06

Does Kundra have an impossible job as Obama's federal CIO?

On Thursday, U.S. President Barack Obama named Vivek Kundra as the CIO of the federal government. Kunda below is a 34 year-old IT leader with a strong reputation in the tech community. He has track record for driving efficiency and transparency, and has shown a penchant for bold actions such...

Tags: Job, CIO, CTO, Information Technology, Vivek Kundra, Government Operation, Federal Government, Government, Strategy, Management, Jason Hiner

Blog posts 2009-03-06

Advancing the prosthetic aesthetic

Experimental prosthetic arms in labs across the country will soon pave the way for commercial versions to antiquate the last major upgrade that took place almost a hundred years ago. That was the cable-operated prosthetic hook (for above-the-elbow amputees). Thanks to the Defense Advanced Research Projects...

Tags: Patient, DARPA, Chicago, Chris Jablonski

Blog posts 2009-02-20

News to know: Windows rot; Touch PCs; Palm Pre sales guesses; Apple

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Windows bit-rot - fact or fiction? Jason O'Grady: Has Apple gotten lazy? Apple quietly releases iLife '09 hardware up-to-date program ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, High Tech Computer Corp., Software-as-a-service, PC, Palm Inc., Health Care, Apple Inc., Sales, INQ Mobile, Human Capital, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Cloud Computing, Healthcare, Microsoft Windows, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Emerging Technologies, Enterprise Software, Software, Operating Systems, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-01-13

10 reasons IT certification will be important in 2009

Guest post: In the midst of staggering business and economic turmoil, you need all the tools at your disposal to help shore up your career prospects. See why TechRepublic's Erik Eckel believes IT certification will become increasingly important for IT pros and the organizations that rely on them. You can...

Tags: Certification, Information Technology, Organization, IT Certification, IT Certification Program, Quality, Training And Certification, Business Operations, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-01-02

The 10 best IT certifications

Guest post from TechRepublic's 10 Things blog: IT pros tend to have strong opinions when debating the value of professional certification â€" and views become even more polarized when it comes down to a discussion of which certs are meaningful. TechRepublic's Erik Eckel put together a list of the accreditations...

Tags: Project Management, Security, Expertise, Certification, Skill, Exam, Information Technology, Microsoft Corp., MCITP, Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist Certification, Project Management Professional Certification, Quality, Training And Certification, Business Operations, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-12-11

The Collider and the Grid: Distributed computing made LHC possible

So the LHC is turned on! And it works great. And we're still alive. I'm not gonna beat that horse today. See Ars for snark But a good IT angle here. LHC is really only possible because of the growth of grid computing....

Tags: Data, Distributed Computing, Grid, LHC, Cloud Computing, Network Technology, Networking, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-09-10