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IT Service Management (ITSM): Frameworks, Processes & Phases

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It also monitors activities on the organization’s network and IT infrastructure, which can detect breaches of company policy. That improves visibility into operations by monitoring, securing and managing assets through one platform. COBIT works with ITIL by offering governance and assurance to ITIL’s supervision for service management.

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IT Financial Management (ITFM) Best Practices

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To accomplish this requires financial governance, creating and controlling an IT budget, tracking expenses and doing cost-benefit analysis of IT investments. This position is also responsible for IT governance , ensuring that standards, rules and proper procedures are being followed.

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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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7 Ways to Sell Agile to Project Stakeholders

LiquidPlanner

Metrics around the success and progress of a software development project are many and varied. One way to sell an Agile system is to offer executives a stake in proposing new metrics and tools for measuring and reporting the development projects under their watch. Propose new metrics for progress and status (with exec input).

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15 Free IT Project Management Templates for Excel, Word & More

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ProjectManager has dozens of free project management templates for Excel and Word that IT managers need when working on web development, software development, mobile app development, network configuration and so much more. These IT project management templates are essential to get those jobs done properly.

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Economics of Software Development

Herding Cats

For example, about which software to buy, which Features in the development backlog should be implemented next, what prices to charge for products and services. Software development is an exercise in microeconomics, since it deals with limited resources - time, cost, and what value is produced in exchange for the time and money.

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The Evolution of Project Management

The IIL Blog

Public Sector Project Manager Selection In most government agencies, PMs were seen more so as project monitors rather than project managers. The assignment as a government project monitor was seen as an add-on to one’s normal job. Executive sponsorship was merely eyewash for government agencies.

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