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

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Information technology (IT) involves the use of computers, digital storage, networking and other physical devices, infrastructure and processes to create, process, store, secure and exchange electronic data. IT service management (ITSM) is the process of how those services meet the needs of the end users who employ them.

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Organizational Process Assets: What does that even mean?

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Project managers are often faced with the challenge of managing complex projects and ensuring that they stay on track. One key tool to success is understanding how to use organizational process assets effectively. But what is an organizational process asset (OPA)? What are Organizational Process Assets?

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Public Infrastructure: Project Management as a Key Success Factor

Inloox

Incompetence in project management. Lack of risk management. Even though this project not quite reaches the epic financial miscalculation of Berlin’s BER airport, it again shows the difficulties realizing public infrastructure projects within their tightly constraint project plan. External influences.

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Project Management Process Groups: A Quick Guide

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To keep to your schedule and manage costs, you need to gather and process project data throughout the five PMBOK project management groups. What Are the 5 PMBOK Project Management Process Groups? Project managers use the five project management phases to structure projects and lead them from beginning to end.

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Agile Infrastructure Transformation and TBM

Leading Agile

Questions of how does Agile apply to infrastructure and what does TBM have to do with Agile were in my mind. At the time, I was leading a group that was responsible for Application Portfolio Management and assessing risk, value, and cost for all of our applications in the company. Agile in Infrastructure. What is TBM?

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IT Financial Management (ITFM) Best Practices

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IT financial management (ITFM) covers the costs of keeping our network, servers and devices running. IT financial management is a bit more complicated than that and we’ll explain by more thoroughly defining the term. Then we’ll list the professionals who are tasked with IT financial management and their key objectives.

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

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Managing information costs and managing information security for those costs are part of making an IT budget. Planning and managing these resource costs in an IT budget can be facilitated by project management software. ProjectManager’s Gantt charts help you plan, manage and track IT costs.

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