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- 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
- Using Modeling and Simulation for Policy Decision Support in Identity Management
- The process of making IT security policy decisions, within organizations, is complex: it involves reaching consensus between a set of stakeholders (key decision makers, e.g. CISOs/CIOs, domain experts, etc.) who might have different views, opinions and biased perceptions of how policies need to be shaped. This involves multiple negotiations and...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Decision Support, Stakeholder, Policy Decision, Modeling, Identity Management, Research & Development, Data Mining, Authentication/Encryption, Tools & Techniques, Free Trade, Databases, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Security, Management, Finance
- White papers 2009-03-21
- Microsoft Office System Webcast: Creating Custom Stakeholder Views in Project 2007 (Level 200)
- Creating project status reports for multiple stakeholders can be challenging since each stakeholder often requires different information in a different format. Microsoft Office Project 2007 has powerful communication tools that allow efficiently communicate with project team members, senior management, or project customers. The presenter of this webcast shows how to...
- Tags: Webcast, Stakeholder, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office Project 2007, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software
- Webcasts 2008-11-19
- Specifying Services for ITIL Service Management
- The Information Technology Infrastructure Library ITIL is a collection of best practices for the management of IT services. ITIL helps organizations to become aware of the business value their IT services provide to internal and external stakeholders. Understanding this value is crucial to the definition of Service Level Agreements SLA...
- Tags: Information Technology, Stakeholder, ITIL, Process Improvement, It Services, Strategy, Quality, Business Operations, Management
- White papers 2008-08-08
- Adopting Agile Development, Part 3: The Role of Agile Stakeholders
- Part 1 of this series introduced agile processes, the benefits of using them, and the requirements placed on the organization that uses them. Part 2 discusses how different types of organizations, such as start-ups, product companies, and small and large organizations, adapt to agile development. This paper discusses the different...
- Tags: Stakeholder, Software Development, Development Tools, Benefits, Software/Web Development, Human Resources
- White papers 2008-05-20
- Adopting Agile Development, Part 3: The Role of Agile Stakeholders
- This paper discusses the different types of stakeholders in an agile process and what their roles entail. Stakeholders in the Srum process are highlighted. In software development, a stakeholder is a party who affects, or can be affected by, an organization's actions. The stakeholders are the entities within or outside...
- Tags: Stakeholder, Software Development, Development Tools, Tools & Techniques, Software/Web Development, Management
- White papers 2008-05-20
- Business Process Analysis
- View Available Dates and LocationsIn this course, you'll learn to model business processes as they are currently enacted, assess the quality of those business processes, and collaborate with the stakeholders to identify improvements. The course begins by teaching you the roles and responsibilities of the...
- Tags: Business Process, Process Improvement, Stakeholder, Prepare, Draw, Operational Planning, Business Operations
- Training 2008-01-01
- Increase your software project's chances of success by practicing outside-in development
- Outside-in software development is a way of thinking about building software that keeps your team's focus and energy on the people who will ultimately engage with and benefit from the product: the stakeholders. In this chapter download from Outside-in Software Development: A Practical Approach to Building Successful Stakeholder-based Products, learn...
- Tags: Software, Software Project, Stakeholder, IBM Corp., Outside-in Software Development, Tools & Techniques, Software Development, Management, Software/Web Development
- Book chapters 2007-10-19
- Keep stakeholders in the loop with this project status report template
- Download this template to effectively communicate project status to stakeholders and keep everyone on the same page. This updated template, created by project management expert Tom Mochal, will enable you to keep stakeholders apprised of the current status of a project and will help ensure that there...
- Tags: Stakeholder, Status Report, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management
- Tools & templates 2005-07-27
- Project communications policy
- Managing stakeholders' expectations throughout the life of an IT project is easier if you establish at the outset when and how you will communicate with your project's stakeholders. This sample Project Communications Policy from TechRepublic can help project managers lay the groundwork for successful communications by spelling out in advance...
- Tags: Stakeholder
- Download resources 2005-01-04
- Set Up Methods for Communicating Project Information
- Effective communication is always a top priority. When a project involves many stakeholders, one needs to make sure that the right information is communicated to the right people and that their feedback is taken under consideration. A project team communications plan helps to ensure that the projects will run smoothly...
- Tags: Team, Stakeholder, Team Management, Management
- Webcasts
Additional Resources
- ICANN, US government splitting up - slowly
- Bad News?a multi-stakeholder, private-sector-led, bottom-up policy development model?Too bad they don't view the common user as a "stakeholder".If they go completely private the internet will look like Wall Street did last December... in no time at all.There is also a contingent of national security involved in the GOVT retaining control...
- Tags: Vertical industries, U.S. Government, ICANN, government
- Discussion threads 2009-09-30
- ICANN, US government splitting up - slowly
- Well, this is a somewhat amorphous development: The Wall Street Journal reports that the U.S. government is now "loosening control" over ICANN, the semi-private "director" of DNS addressing. The move is seen as a stamp of approval for the private-sector approach and will mollify European governments who have long been...
- Tags: ICANN, U.S. Government, Government, Internet, Vertical Industries, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-09-30
- Salesforce.com and CODA hook up
- Salesforce.com and CODA (via its parent Unit 4 Agresso) are hooking up to create FinancialForce.com. While financial details of the arrangement were not revealed, Salesforce.com is a minority stakeholder in the new company. From the blurbs: The CODA 2go team and products have transferred to FinancialForce.com, which will...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., CODA, FinancialForce.com, Sales Force Management, Sales, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-09-30
- 7 fundamentals of IT project success
- 7 FundamentalsI agree that most of the failures are not because of technical issues. Project managers often focus on the mechanics of managing the activities. There needs to be a focus on business value. This can only come from the business.Adding to the Stakeholder involvement item you...
- Tags: Strategy, IT Solutions, Project Leadership, information technology, IT Project Success
- Discussion threads 2009-09-17
- Measuring the ROI of PR
- Measuring the ROI of PRWhat is the REAL ROI of PR?What is the business owner/stakeholder's goal in spending money on Public Relations. What value measures are real at predicting or correlating with Value?These questions are not easy to answer. But there is a way.My collaboration partner and I have developed...
- Tags: ROI/TCO, Sales force management, public relations, REAL ROI, ROI
- Discussion threads 2009-07-30
- 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
- KOALA in Depth: Accountability - Foundation for Stakeholder Engagement
- Asset accountability is more than simple assignment tracking - it's going to the effort to understand who the key stakeholders for an asset or service are, then maintaining the discipline to include the right people in relevant maintenance, change/update, strategic deployment, and other planning activities and IT management processes. The...
- Tags: Asset, Avocent Corp., Accountability, Asset Accountability, Asset Management, Financial Accounting, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Finance
- White papers 2009-07-01
- Death of the Principle of Voluntarism?
- Much of the corporate sustainability and responsibility agenda has been propelled since the '90s by the idea that voluntary action on the part of corporations is more effective than regulation. It has been a celebration of market dynamism over moribund regulation, the latter of which would provide only for the lowest common denominator. At...
- Tags: Initiative, Diamond, Kimberly Process, Corporate Social Responsibility, Business Ethics, Corporate Law, Leadership, Management, Business Operations, James Farrar
- Blog posts 2009-06-25
- What Corporate Sustainability can learn from twitter, Robert Scoble & Iran
- [caption id="attachment_763" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Amanpour: A little more Davos & Friend Feed, a little less Damascus & live feed?"][/caption] The celebrated celebrity blogger, Robert Scoble, is ticked off with CNN over its weak coverage of the Iran election and aftermath. In his most recent blog post -'The day Twitter kicked...
- Tags: Sustainability, Social Media, CNN, James Farrar
- Blog posts 2009-06-22
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