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Some project management infrastructures just aren’t at the maturity level to really make use of a PMO. I realize not everyone and every organization needs a Project Management Office (PMO). MORE
The second is about setting up the business infrastructure to support you, so that’s things like accounting, sales and marketing. I’ve come to a point in my career that I think it’s time to try working for myself. Any advice for making the transition? MORE
Cheetah Project Management Office – Set up a support infrastructure that helps keep all projects finishing faster. If you want to run fast, go alone. If you want to run further, go together Become the Champion of Further, Faster for the Organizations You Serve. Click Here to download the Better Projects, Better Business Whitepaper Use code BRADPMP for 5% off training and certification - signup a team of 3 or more and get 10% off each! MORE
In addition, the Flow Framework expands on the notion of technical debt to include infrastructure debt (e.g., Guest post by Dr. Mik Kersten While “technical debt” is a term that’s frequently used by technologists, the implication and understanding of it tends to be opaque to the business until it’s too late - just look at how Nokia lost the mobile market that it helped create. MORE
Agile transformation requires a change of culture and mindset, which is why it must happen in waves, with associated business, technology and infrastructure groups becoming agile together. Achieving and maturing organizational agility is the key object for established organizations in order to keep delivering business value. In fact, an organization’s agility level is the most important factor influencing project success rates. But what does agility really mean? MORE
The project management office - or PMO - is generally considered the proper project management infrastructure for project-centric organizations. Without that infrastructure, it's difficult to justify putting a PM team together not knowing what type of utilization those resources will actually have. Does your organization run and manage individual projects to get internal and external customers work done? MORE
I believe it is wise that every organization – especially those that are more technical in nature – have a project management infrastructure. MORE
This type of business structure is typical for large space and defense programs as well as large construction and infrastructure projects. I'm working on a presentation and discussion for the Joint Space Cost Council that is happening in September. MORE
Let’s say you’re well-qualified in your technical skills—be it Java, programming languages, infrastructure, networks or system administration. MORE
While infrastructural enhancements like this are worth pursuing, some of the most successful data-collecting solutions come in the area of marketing. Additional Information Considerations Infrastructure was touched on earlier. MORE
Paulette Scheffer, Senior Director of IT Infrastructure & Service Management at Adobe Systems, on how her team Delivers new business value 12-week sprints. I am joined today by Paulette Scheffer, Senior Director of IT Infrastructure & Service Management, to talk about how her team at Adobe Systems delivers business value in 12-week sprints. MORE
1) How certified is your PMO or PM infrastructure? How Certified and is Your PMO or PM Infrastructure and How Effective is the Leadership? Let's have a little fun and do a new survey. This time I'd like to look at two things. MORE
In the past eight months of my life directing a large infrastructure program, I spend on average 70% of my time in meetings. “As a leader, you must consistently drive effective communication. MORE
Or are you putting together your project management infrastructure and considering building a PMO? How is your project management office (PMO) doing? Perhaps you need help. Your next step - you need certification for your PMO. MORE
Through cloud infrastructure, they were able to meet this demand. Everybody’s head is in the cloud nowadays. The phrase has shifted its meaning, however. Where it once implied daydreaming, now it is the realm of innovative businesses and forward-thinking leaders. MORE
And do you need fresh eyes to look at your PM infrastructure and check processes for leaks and needed fixes? Believe it or not I get told this or asked about this nearly every week. I frequently hear from organizations - some very large organizations right down to new startups - who are throwing up their arms and saying it's just not working! Don't worry, it can be working and it will work. It's fixable. Nearly everything is fixable. MORE
What tools and infrastructure are at the teams’ disposal? In 2010, the principal co-creators of Scrum, Jeff Sutherland and Ken Schwaber, agreed on the first version of the Scrum Guide , thereby creating the official BOK (body of knowledge) for Scrum. MORE
An organization can certainly operate a PM infrastructure with a dedicated project management office (PMO). There may be more struggles, a bigger learning curve, or more problems bringing in the best dedicated project management talent, but it can be done. I've seen it work. MORE
When it is your team making decisions about dev-ops or other infrastructure that they need, this is exactly what it feels like and looks like. Defining and building a good minimum viable product is much harder than it sounds. MORE
Potentially a number of Projects would then be initiated to build the new physical infrastructure (buildings, roads), train additional staff, provision IT and canteen facilities etc. In part 1 of this article series, we accepted that Projects sometimes need to be cancelled. MORE
The protocol failed due to the fact that the new environment wasn’t set up by the infrastructure team. The DM team raised the problem to the project manager (Howard Foster), and requested his assistance in prioritizing this task with the infrastructure team. What is an Issue Log? MORE
i.e. aeroplane component design, or changes to core banking infrastructure. Sara is delivering a 3-month project to upgrade some core banking infrastructure. This is a contribution by Chris Hammond from smartitpm.com. Chris Hammond. As Project Managers, we’re all familiar with process. MORE
ISPs are under pressure to scale their infrastructure to support greater speeds at lower costs, but the side effect of this “arms race” might be reliability. Recently, I’ve been experiencing frequent brief loss of Internet connectivity issues at home. MORE
Your organization is thinking of implementing a project management infrastructure. MORE
New in-house software development and implementations, infrastructure related projects, enhancements or upgrades, and the increasing development of web-based solutions and mobile apps are a constant within the software industry. Managing projects of all sizes and levels of complexities is part of business, regardless of what vertical industry you’re talking about. Software development is no different. MORE
materials, infrastructure, etc.). Whether you are studying for project management certification, have had the role of project manager thrust upon you (funny how that happens, isn’t it?), MORE
Technical understanding including hardware, software, network, infrastructure, security, etc. IT PM: Project management training that deals with technology, such as infrastructure, hardware, software, networks, etc. So ITIL is Information Technology Infrastructure Library. MORE
The business model and infrastructure. When it comes to the business model and infrastructure, consider at the very least, the following questions: Will the existing business model and infrastructure fully support remote project management in ways that make sense, currently and into the future? Do the existing infrastructure and technologies offer the needed capabilities for remote connectivity? MORE
Salvage : Any useful outputs of the Project should be salvaged for potential reuse immediately or at some stage in the future, be it physical infrastructure (desk spaces, computer etc) or project outputs (computer code or physical products). MORE
Your organization is getting better and better at “selling” projects, but you may be a smaller organization lacking the human resources personnel to get the right people on board – at least quickly – to ramp up the delivery side of the project management infrastructure. Your project management practice is moving along nicely and your organization’s project success rate is on the rise. MORE
But "plan" may also mean putting in place the infrastructure for L.L. - In our Precious Blog entry we reflected generally on Project Lessons Learned. Now let us spell out a structured Process that we suggest: Plan Lessons Capture - Lessons Learned (L.L.) MORE
It houses the communications infrastructure and whatever tech is needed for the project. The first thing to do is figure out where the project office should be, and then make sure that the infrastructure there is properly set up with the right project management office tools and equipment. MORE
I’ll be watching the Infrastructure Industry Innovation Platform to see what impact that has on project success (lots, I hope). MORE
What about this… what about a central figure leading the project management infrastructure in an organization. PMO Directors. Are they game changers? Great leaders? Powerful enough to get the job done? Are they taken seriously by senior management? It’s certainly not a new concept. Making that central figure a C-level officer in the company…now that’s a new concept. At least I’ve not seen it happen or even be proposed anywhere. Read the full article. MORE
My degree helped me understand how systems and infrastructure fit together. There are lots of routes into project management, as I explored recently in an article on how to become a project manager. MORE
In fact, train your entire group and create a PM infrastructure of excellence and excellent people. CCPM? A what?!? A CCPM - a Cheetah Certified Project Manager. Is that a real thing? Yes, and it is awesome. Cheetah Learning - a 17 year leaders worldwide in project management education, training and certification - is offering their own certification in addition to PMI's Project Management Professional (PMP) training and certification. And the training is life changing. MORE
But although the Opera House is a national symbol and has been recognised as an incredible feat of architecture, it’s one of the best-known case studies of a failed infrastructure project. MORE
While infrastructural enhancements like this are worth pursuing, some of the most successful data-collecting solutions come in the area of marketing. Additional Information Considerations Infrastructure was touched on earlier. MORE
Missing technical infrastructure. The first part of this 3-part series gave an insight into what “digital transformation” means. We’ve established the following definition for this process: ". A digital transformation is a process of disruption and the following process of regeneration. Antiquated structures get torn down and are replaced by new, more efficient processes and structures. ". MORE
Is your organization thinking of implementing a project management infrastructure. Maybe you a small company on the rise and up until now you’ve gotten by on managing “projects” on the fly…grabbing some info off the internet to help those who have been forced into managing these one-off and mainly internal projects succeed…or at least not fail miserably. MORE
A certified staff of project managers in your PM infrastructure or PMO won’t guarantee success for every project every time out, but having a solid group of leaders talking the same language and possessing confident leadership skills may be half the battle for some organizations. Of course, nothing can guarantee ongoing project successes. If we had a magic formulate that could, we’d be millionaires. MORE
Infrastructure engineers and system administrators test their scripts even less diligently than programmers test their application code. Another practice that may be unfamiliar to many infrastructure engineers is version control. MORE
It’s only useful when different people handle different aspects of delivery, like strategic planning, requirements elaboration, architecture, design, coding, testing, packaging, deploying, infrastructure management, production system monitoring, operations, and production support. MORE
Infrastructure Related Topics Brad Egeland
JULY 18, 2017
Is your organization thinking of implementing a project management infrastructure. Maybe you a small company on the rise and up until now you’ve gotten by on managing “projects” on the fly…grabbing some info off the internet to help those who have been forced into managing these one-off and mainly internal projects succeed…or at least not fail miserably.
Brad Egeland
APRIL 29, 2016
Your organization is thinking of implementing a project management infrastructure.
Brad Egeland
MARCH 2, 2018
1) How certified is your PMO or PM infrastructure? How Certified and is Your PMO or PM Infrastructure and How Effective is the Leadership? Let's have a little fun and do a new survey. This time I'd like to look at two things.
ProjectManager.com
APRIL 16, 2018
Technical understanding including hardware, software, network, infrastructure, security, etc. IT PM: Project management training that deals with technology, such as infrastructure, hardware, software, networks, etc. So ITIL is Information Technology Infrastructure Library.
Speaker: Cliff Gilley, The Clever PM
Unexpected details pop up, as small as UX that needs clean-up, and as big as a previously unforeseen flaw in the infrastructure of a project. As a Product Manager, you probably have to deal with technical debt. Regularly. Whether you like it or not - because it can’t be avoided.
Brad Egeland
NOVEMBER 15, 2016
Some project management infrastructures just aren’t at the maturity level to really make use of a PMO. I realize not everyone and every organization needs a Project Management Office (PMO).
Brad Egeland
JULY 18, 2018
What about this… what about a central figure leading the project management infrastructure in an organization. PMO Directors. Are they game changers? Great leaders? Powerful enough to get the job done? Are they taken seriously by senior management? It’s certainly not a new concept. Making that central figure a C-level officer in the company…now that’s a new concept. At least I’ve not seen it happen or even be proposed anywhere. Read the full article.
Brad Egeland
JUNE 10, 2016
I believe it is wise that every organization – especially those that are more technical in nature – have a project management infrastructure.
Moira Alexander
MAY 5, 2016
New in-house software development and implementations, infrastructure related projects, enhancements or upgrades, and the increasing development of web-based solutions and mobile apps are a constant within the software industry. Managing projects of all sizes and levels of complexities is part of business, regardless of what vertical industry you’re talking about. Software development is no different.
Brad Egeland
SEPTEMBER 6, 2018
And do you need fresh eyes to look at your PM infrastructure and check processes for leaks and needed fixes? Believe it or not I get told this or asked about this nearly every week. I frequently hear from organizations - some very large organizations right down to new startups - who are throwing up their arms and saying it's just not working! Don't worry, it can be working and it will work. It's fixable. Nearly everything is fixable.
Brad Egeland
FEBRUARY 1, 2018
While infrastructural enhancements like this are worth pursuing, some of the most successful data-collecting solutions come in the area of marketing. Additional Information Considerations Infrastructure was touched on earlier.
Brad Egeland
FEBRUARY 1, 2018
While infrastructural enhancements like this are worth pursuing, some of the most successful data-collecting solutions come in the area of marketing. Additional Information Considerations Infrastructure was touched on earlier.
ProjectManager.com
JULY 31, 2018
It houses the communications infrastructure and whatever tech is needed for the project. The first thing to do is figure out where the project office should be, and then make sure that the infrastructure there is properly set up with the right project management office tools and equipment.
Girl's Guide to PM
NOVEMBER 2, 2016
i.e. aeroplane component design, or changes to core banking infrastructure. Sara is delivering a 3-month project to upgrade some core banking infrastructure. This is a contribution by Chris Hammond from smartitpm.com. Chris Hammond. As Project Managers, we’re all familiar with process.
Brad Egeland
JULY 3, 2018
A certified staff of project managers in your PM infrastructure or PMO won’t guarantee success for every project every time out, but having a solid group of leaders talking the same language and possessing confident leadership skills may be half the battle for some organizations. Of course, nothing can guarantee ongoing project successes. If we had a magic formulate that could, we’d be millionaires.
Kiron Bondale
SEPTEMBER 2, 2018
ISPs are under pressure to scale their infrastructure to support greater speeds at lower costs, but the side effect of this “arms race” might be reliability. Recently, I’ve been experiencing frequent brief loss of Internet connectivity issues at home.
Brad Egeland
DECEMBER 15, 2017
Or are you putting together your project management infrastructure and considering building a PMO? How is your project management office (PMO) doing? Perhaps you need help. Your next step - you need certification for your PMO.
Project Health Check
NOVEMBER 20, 2017
Potentially a number of Projects would then be initiated to build the new physical infrastructure (buildings, roads), train additional staff, provision IT and canteen facilities etc. In part 1 of this article series, we accepted that Projects sometimes need to be cancelled.
Gunther Verheyen
OCTOBER 22, 2018
What tools and infrastructure are at the teams’ disposal? In 2010, the principal co-creators of Scrum, Jeff Sutherland and Ken Schwaber, agreed on the first version of the Scrum Guide , thereby creating the official BOK (body of knowledge) for Scrum.
Brad Egeland
MAY 8, 2017
Your organization is getting better and better at “selling” projects, but you may be a smaller organization lacking the human resources personnel to get the right people on board – at least quickly – to ramp up the delivery side of the project management infrastructure. Your project management practice is moving along nicely and your organization’s project success rate is on the rise.
Project Health Check
DECEMBER 4, 2017
Salvage : Any useful outputs of the Project should be salvaged for potential reuse immediately or at some stage in the future, be it physical infrastructure (desk spaces, computer etc) or project outputs (computer code or physical products).
Brad Egeland
SEPTEMBER 20, 2018
Cheetah Project Management Office – Set up a support infrastructure that helps keep all projects finishing faster. If you want to run fast, go alone. If you want to run further, go together Become the Champion of Further, Faster for the Organizations You Serve. Click Here to download the Better Projects, Better Business Whitepaper Use code BRADPMP for 5% off training and certification - signup a team of 3 or more and get 10% off each!
Techno-PM
FEBRUARY 22, 2018
The protocol failed due to the fact that the new environment wasn’t set up by the infrastructure team. The DM team raised the problem to the project manager (Howard Foster), and requested his assistance in prioritizing this task with the infrastructure team. What is an Issue Log?
ProjectManager.com
OCTOBER 17, 2018
Through cloud infrastructure, they were able to meet this demand. Everybody’s head is in the cloud nowadays. The phrase has shifted its meaning, however. Where it once implied daydreaming, now it is the realm of innovative businesses and forward-thinking leaders.
Brad Egeland
JUNE 27, 2018
In fact, train your entire group and create a PM infrastructure of excellence and excellent people. CCPM? A what?!? A CCPM - a Cheetah Certified Project Manager. Is that a real thing? Yes, and it is awesome. Cheetah Learning - a 17 year leaders worldwide in project management education, training and certification - is offering their own certification in addition to PMI's Project Management Professional (PMP) training and certification. And the training is life changing.
Susanne Madsen - Developing Project Leaders
MAY 23, 2018
But although the Opera House is a national symbol and has been recognised as an incredible feat of architecture, it’s one of the best-known case studies of a failed infrastructure project.
Inloox
SEPTEMBER 18, 2018
Agile transformation requires a change of culture and mindset, which is why it must happen in waves, with associated business, technology and infrastructure groups becoming agile together. Achieving and maturing organizational agility is the key object for established organizations in order to keep delivering business value. In fact, an organization’s agility level is the most important factor influencing project success rates. But what does agility really mean?
Project Health Check
AUGUST 14, 2017
But "plan" may also mean putting in place the infrastructure for L.L. - In our Precious Blog entry we reflected generally on Project Lessons Learned. Now let us spell out a structured Process that we suggest: Plan Lessons Capture - Lessons Learned (L.L.)
Brad Egeland
SEPTEMBER 20, 2018
The project management office - or PMO - is generally considered the proper project management infrastructure for project-centric organizations. Without that infrastructure, it's difficult to justify putting a PM team together not knowing what type of utilization those resources will actually have. Does your organization run and manage individual projects to get internal and external customers work done?
Leading Agile
OCTOBER 22, 2018
Infrastructure engineers and system administrators test their scripts even less diligently than programmers test their application code. Another practice that may be unfamiliar to many infrastructure engineers is version control.
Arras People
MAY 4, 2016
The second is about setting up the business infrastructure to support you, so that’s things like accounting, sales and marketing. I’ve come to a point in my career that I think it’s time to try working for myself. Any advice for making the transition?
LiquidPlanner
AUGUST 14, 2018
Let’s say you’re well-qualified in your technical skills—be it Java, programming languages, infrastructure, networks or system administration.
LiquidPlanner
SEPTEMBER 13, 2018
In the past eight months of my life directing a large infrastructure program, I spend on average 70% of my time in meetings. “As a leader, you must consistently drive effective communication.
Girl's Guide to PM
AUGUST 1, 2018
My degree helped me understand how systems and infrastructure fit together. There are lots of routes into project management, as I explored recently in an article on how to become a project manager.
Clarizen
AUGUST 2, 2018
materials, infrastructure, etc.). Whether you are studying for project management certification, have had the role of project manager thrust upon you (funny how that happens, isn’t it?),
Zen Project Management
SEPTEMBER 24, 2018
In addition, the Flow Framework expands on the notion of technical debt to include infrastructure debt (e.g., Guest post by Dr. Mik Kersten While “technical debt” is a term that’s frequently used by technologists, the implication and understanding of it tends to be opaque to the business until it’s too late - just look at how Nokia lost the mobile market that it helped create.
Girl's Guide to PM
DECEMBER 16, 2016
I’ll be watching the Infrastructure Industry Innovation Platform to see what impact that has on project success (lots, I hope).
Leading Agile
OCTOBER 1, 2018
It’s only useful when different people handle different aspects of delivery, like strategic planning, requirements elaboration, architecture, design, coding, testing, packaging, deploying, infrastructure management, production system monitoring, operations, and production support.
Guerrilla Project Management
JANUARY 19, 2012
Paulette Scheffer, Senior Director of IT Infrastructure & Service Management at Adobe Systems, on how her team Delivers new business value 12-week sprints. I am joined today by Paulette Scheffer, Senior Director of IT Infrastructure & Service Management, to talk about how her team at Adobe Systems delivers business value in 12-week sprints.
Herding Cats
SEPTEMBER 9, 2017
This type of business structure is typical for large space and defense programs as well as large construction and infrastructure projects. I'm working on a presentation and discussion for the Joint Space Cost Council that is happening in September.
Inloox
APRIL 5, 2018
Missing technical infrastructure. The first part of this 3-part series gave an insight into what “digital transformation” means. We’ve established the following definition for this process: ". A digital transformation is a process of disruption and the following process of regeneration. Antiquated structures get torn down and are replaced by new, more efficient processes and structures. ".
Tyner Blain
JULY 22, 2016
When it is your team making decisions about dev-ops or other infrastructure that they need, this is exactly what it feels like and looks like. Defining and building a good minimum viable product is much harder than it sounds.
Brad Egeland
MARCH 16, 2018
An organization can certainly operate a PM infrastructure with a dedicated project management office (PMO). There may be more struggles, a bigger learning curve, or more problems bringing in the best dedicated project management talent, but it can be done. I've seen it work.
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