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Information Technology Risk Management

Herding Cats

So if you're not using Risk Management and associated estimates, you're not managing the project as a adult. Information Technology Risk Management from Glen Alleman. Information Technology Estimating Quality. Estimating is Risk Management. Related articles. IT Risk Management.

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What Is an IT Budget? IT Budgeting Basics (Template Included)

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Information technology (IT) runs most businesses. Managing information costs and managing information security for those costs are part of making an IT budget. But those forecasts are estimates and to ensure that you keep to your IT budget, monitoring and tracking costs is imperative.

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How to Manage Auditability (and other non-functional, non-technical requirements)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Consider the following attributes of a modern transaction processing system, whether located on a server in the corporate data center or delivered as Software-as-a-Service in the Cloud. Requirements associated with each of them may be a consideration for your next information technology project. Auditability.

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IT Financial Management (ITFM) Best Practices

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Information technology (IT) has found its way into almost every aspect of our lives, both professionally and personally. IT financial management is made up of the processes and tools that are needed to manage and analyze IT costs. Managers tend to prefer Gantt charts, but IT teams don’t need all that information.

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Operations Management: Key Functions, Roles and Skills

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Operations management (OM) is the process of administration of business operations and/or production management in order to achieve specific goals such as increased productivity and higher profitability. Company resources, such as staffing, materials, equipment and technology, are all part of the optimization process of operations management.

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Project Manager Job Description (with free copy+paste examples!)

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While communication is key to address changes and make sure everyone is doing what they need to do, the project manager must also define, schedule and accurately estimate the task duration to develop and maintain a realistic project schedule. Deliver and install technology solutions. Lead process of issue identification and resolution.

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Estimating Accuracy Mathematics

Herding Cats

In the estimating business, like many things in project management, there is confusion about principles, practices, and processes. A good estimation approach should provide estimates that are within 25% of the actual results, 75% of the time. But the Mean Relative Error of the estimate is with within 25%.