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IT Governance: Definitions, Frameworks and Planning

ProjectManager.com

IT governance ensures that IT departments are prepared for what’s next, without losing focus on what matters. What is IT Governance? At its base level, IT governance is one or multiple processes that enable the IT staff to better manage risk and operate at its most efficient to the benefit of the organization on the whole.

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Understanding the Organizational Governance System as Project Managers

Project Pulse Journal

Is it challenging to navigate the complex landscape of project governance frameworks? In this article, we will dive deep into organizational and project governance and systems in project management. At the heart of this lies the robust framework of Organizational Governance Systems.

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How to do Rolling Wave Planning

Rebel’s Guide to PM

The APM Planning, Scheduling, Monitoring and Control Guide (2015) defines rolling wave planning as ‘the planning density that is achieved at different moments in time. A rolling wave plan starts with knowing the major milestones or governance points. How to create a rolling wave plan. Finally, include the long-range tasks.

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PRINCE2 and PMBOK: How They Compare

Rebel’s Guide to PM

First came PRINCE in 1989 as the UK government standard for IT project management. There are other differences: the PMBOK® Guide usefully covers procurement, whereas PRINCE2 assumes you are operating in an environment constrained by a contract, because of its roots in government IT projects. No, not that I’m aware of.

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Taking the First Step toward Scrum

Scrum.org

Once firmly in the domain of software development, practitioners find that Scrum is equally applicable to many other kinds of complex work. While working at the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) she won the Government of Canada 2015 GTEC Leadership Award for the CRA Agile Transformation. . .

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Taking the first step towards Scrum

Scrum.org

Once firmly in the domain of software development, practitioners find that Scrum is equally applicable to many other kinds of complex work. While working at the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) she won the Government of Canada 2015 GTEC Leadership Award for the CRA Agile Transformation. . .

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From Laying the Foundation to Completion: The Basics and Challenges of Project Management in Construction

Inloox

Technical expertise as well as knowledge of tools and software must be skillfully combined. A study from Oxford in 2015 fundamentally addressed the question of why major projects fail. Especially in the case of government-financed large-scale projects, the pressure from outside is enormous. Yet these are not isolated cases.