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Emerging Trends & Challenges in Information Technology

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Information technology (IT) is the backbone of the modern enterprise. Let’s examine the emerging information technology trends and challenges as well as the modern IT project management solutions designed to overcome them. What Is the Role of Information Technology?

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IT Governance: Definitions, Frameworks and Planning

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Information technology is prevalent in nearly every industry and organization across the globe. On top of it all, information technology is constantly evolving. What is IT Governance? Key Terms in IT Governance. What is an IT Governance Framework?

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The Importance of Data Governance for Business

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Much as a librarian is responsible for organizing a large collection of books, organizations must have a set protocol for managing the information they collect when doing business. That plan is called data governance. What Is Data Governance? Data governance provides an organization with a plan to make sure that its data is available, usable, consistent and secure. Data Governance Goals. Informed Decision-Making. Implementation of Data Governance.

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Governance and Estimating

Herding Cats

If your business is not subject to any external governance process, you’re free to spend your money as you please. But you’re not free to suggest your approach is applicable to those who are governed by external frameworks of spending and accountability for that spend, without a testable confirmation this idea doesn’t violate those governance principles. Governance includes: Responsibility for a specific duty, task, or decision. NoEstimates Governance

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Accountability on a Agile Software Development in the Presence of Governance

Herding Cats

So for projects that spend other people's money in the presence of uncertainty - Governance is a means to establish those shared principles. Governance is about Decision Rights. Specifying the decision rights and accoutability framework to encourage desirable behaviours in the developemnt and use of information technology and its supporting services. - IT Governance: How Top Performers Manage IT Decision Risght for Superier Results , Weill and Ross, Harvard Business School Proess.

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A Compendium of Works to Increase the Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

Project Governance. Deliverables Based Planning: Providing Actional Information to the Program Manager , 11th Annual Rocky Mountain Project Management Symposium, 2009. Agile Software Development for Government Software Intensive System of Systems (SISoS) , Boulder Agile Meetup, 27 July 2016. Handling Risk on High Technology Programs. Applying Risk Radar to High-Risk Technology Projects. Information Technology Department Balanced Scorecard.

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How to Create a Powerful PMO Mission Statement

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Here’s an extract: The Program Management Office’s mission is to: Establish a standardized and repeatable process to understand the University’s strategic objectives and how technology can be used to help meet those objectives. Ministry of Works, Government of Bahrain.

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Managing in the Presence of Risk

Herding Cats

Information technology project risk often comes from non-technical aspects of the initiative. Assessing the impact of technology on people, management systems and other initiatives is essential to assure project success. "We Is the outcome dependent on experimental technology? We automate problems". This department slogan was posted on an office door (the inside) for several months while managers in the department struggled to break out of a string of failed projects.

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Biases in Project Management and How to Remove Them

Herding Cats

Cognitive bias - a mistake in reasoning, evaluating, remembering, or other cognitive processes, often occurring as a result of holding onto one's preferences and beliefs regardless of contrary information. When System One works it is because of memories and past experiences inform the decision. What are the measures of physical percent complete needed to inform the decision makers of progress to plan in order to take corrective or preventive actions to stay on plan?

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DDSTOP The Saga Continues

Herding Cats

We were one of the first users of eXtreme Programming, long before Scrum was around and presented that early work in 2003, " Making Agile Development Work in a Government Contracting Environment, Measuring velocity with Earned Value." . Place all the information into some modeling tool. 2] "A Guide to Deal with Uncertainties in Software Project Management," International Journal of Computer Science & Information Technology (IJCSIT), Vol.

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The Business Technology Standard

Henny Portman

The Business Technology Standard (or BT Standard, 4th edition) is an open-source management framework to plan, build and run information technology in today’s technology-driven business world.

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Principles of Project Success

Herding Cats

People, money, facilities, technology. Information Technology Estimating Quality. Deliverables Based Planning(r) Estimating Governance IMP/IMS Management Performance-Based Project Management® PrinciplesProjects produce products, services, solutions. Projects deliver capabilities that fulfill Missions and Vision, Projects are a vehicle to accomplish and outcome. Every project should have a goal, an objective, and outcome.

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Misunderstanding Making Decisions in the Presence of Uncertainty

Herding Cats

Our perception of this world - the data and information we receive about these behaviors. Information about key project cost, performance, and schedule attributes is often uncertain or unknown until late in the program. Using the Agile Methodology to Mitigate the Risks of Highly Adaptive Projects,” Dana Roberson and Mary Anne Herndon, 10 th Annual CMMI Technology Conference And User Group , November 5 – 8, 2012, Denver, CO.

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DDSTOP The Saga Continues

Herding Cats

We were one of the first users of eXtreme Programming, long before Scrum was around and presented that early work in 2003, " Making Agile Development Work in a Government Contracting Environment, Measuring velocity with Earned Value." . Adaptability is of little use if you don't know the boundaries of the technology, processes, and uncertainties of the problem. Inform design trade-off decisions. Information Technology Estimating Quality.

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Concept of Operations

Herding Cats

Technology considerations - what limitations do we have? IEEE Guide for Information Technology - System Definition-Concept of Operations (ConOps) Document , IEEE Standard 1362-1998, IEEE Computer Society, March 19, 1998. Agile Architecture Decision Making Governance Principles Project Management Systems TheoryOne of the root causes of project failure is the failure to apply the first principle of the five principles of project success.

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#Noestimates Has Come to This

Herding Cats

Information Technology Estimating Quality. NoEstimates Capabilities Decision Making Economics Estimating Governance Logical Fallacies Management Performance-Based Project Management® PlanningThis is a chart from an agile conference where #Noestimates was a topic. For the most part, the briefing follows Tony Magennis' approach from his book. So the first part is following standard estimating principles.

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Concept of Operations

Herding Cats

IEEE Computer Society, March 19, 1998, IEEE Guide for Information Technology—System Definition—Concept of Operations (ConOps) Document (IEEE Std 1362-1998). Architecture Capabilities Decision Making Earned Value Estimating Governance Management Planning Principles Project Management Requirements SchedulingIn the agile community, there is always some comment or opinion about how hard it is to define what the requirements are.

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DDSTOP The Saga Continues

Herding Cats

We were on of the first users of eXtreme Programming, long before Scrum was around and presented that early work in 2003, " Making Agile Development Work in a Government Contracting Environment, Measuring velocity with Earned Value." . Inform design trade-off decisions. Satisfy the governance and oversight requirements of the firm providing the money. Information Technology Estimating Quality.

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Biases in Project Management and How to Remove Them

Herding Cats

Cognitive bias - a mistake in reasoning, evaluating, remembering, or other cognitive processes, often occurring as a result of holding onto one's preferences and beliefs regardless of contrary information. When System One works it is because of memories and past experiences inform the decision. What are the measures of physical percent complete needed to inform the decision makers of progress to plan in order to take corrective or preventive actions to stay on plan?

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What Is an Audit Trail & How to Conduct One

ProjectManager.com

This information is stamped with the date and time it’s collected to better assess it in context. In fact, they serve many purposes, such as providing information for an audit, but also keeping financial records, communication transactions and more.

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How Stakeholder Interaction and Engagement Impacts Project Complexity

International Institute for Learning

and (2) What metrics or information would you like to see in the reports or dashboards to help you with these decisions? Both the influential and non-influential stakeholders will require information for whatever decisions they must or prefer to make.

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7 Steps for Effective Problem Management in IT

ProjectManager.com

Information technology (IT) is a broad field that encompasses anything related to computer technology. Teams that work in IT are there to support these technologies and the people who use them. Related: IT Governance: Definitions, Frameworks and Planning.

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Need an Experienced Project Manager and Leader? Check This

Brad Egeland

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I Am Your Next Project Manager

Brad Egeland

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The Oncoming Russian Cyberattacks on the US and How to Prepare

Brad Egeland

and international officials have accused the Russian government of committing cyber attacks that targeted Ukraine's banks in recent weeks. homeland, we are mindful of the potential for the Russian government to consider escalating its destabilizing actions in ways that may impact others outside of Ukraine," the agency said in its letter. Experts say the Russia-Ukraine conflict puts the world in uncharted territory.

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Excellent Project Leadership Starts Here

Brad Egeland

Led projects and oversight of offshore development teams for PS organization Acting in advisory role CTO role for Agile tool startup pmxboard implementing the best technology for the organization to grow and move forward. ​ I am available. 22 years experience.

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Brad Egeland

Do you need long term or one-off expert project management help right now? I am a very experienced tech project manager with more than 20 years of successful project management experience. I can be available immediately and I can do remote or onsite, full-time or part-time, W2 or 1099.

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Brad Egeland

Do you need long term or one-off expert project management help right now? Tech PM or just a very experienced real world go-to Project Manager to come in and help take charge? I can do remote or onsite, full-time or part-time, W2 or 1099. Contact me by email or through my contact form here.

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Brad Egeland

​ Do you need long term or one-off expert project management help right now? Tech PM or just a very experienced real world go-to Project Manager to come in and help take charge? I can do remote or onsite, full-time or part-time, W2 or 1099. Contact me by email or through my contact form here.

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Brad Egeland

Do you need long term or one-off expert project management help right now? Tech PM or just a very experienced real world go-to Project Manager to come in and help take charge? I can do remote or onsite, full-time or part-time, W2 or 1099. Contact me by email or through my contact form here.

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Brad Egeland

Led projects and oversight of offshore development teams for PS organization Acting in advisory role CTO role for Agile tool startup pmxboard i mplementing the best technology for the organization to grow and move forward. I am available. 22 years experience.

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Brad Egeland

Do you need long term or one-off expert project management help right now? Tech PM or just a very experienced real world go-to Project Manager to come in and help take charge? I can do remote or onsite, full-time or part-time, W2 or 1099. Contact me by email or through my contact form here.

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US strategic advantage depends upon addressing cybersecurity vulnerabilities of weapon systems

Brad Egeland

Many weapons systems are built upon technologies that carry inherent digital vulnerabilities, making them susceptible to cyberattack. The modernization of legacy weapon system technology with bolt-on information technology (IT) and operational technologies (OT) is another.

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Brad Egeland

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Why Proactive Cybersecurity Is a Must in Today’s Sophisticated Threat Environment

Brad Egeland

In recent years, the cybersecurity focus and activities by both industry and government have been reactive to whatever is the latest threat or breach. Proactive cybersecurity has been a posture that has been adopted increasingly by industry and government.

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