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Emerging Trends & Challenges in Information Technology

ProjectManager.com

Let’s examine the emerging information technology trends and challenges as well as the modern IT project management solutions designed to overcome them. This is dangerous for IT teams, as they are often managing risk on behalf of their companies. But in this new way of working, ad-hoc projects are managed with ad-hoc processes.

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Luck has Little to Do With Achieving Positive Project Outcomes

LiquidPlanner

Project management is a lot more complicated than relying on the luck of the Irish to ensure people are working on the right priorities at the right time. Luck comes along suddenly and unexpectedly in managing priorities without a project management tool. Project management software is a great way to work smarter, not harder.

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7 Key Considerations for Building the Perfect PMO

LiquidPlanner

Does your organization invest in a Project Management Office (PMO)? If you are reading this then you must be considering setting up a PMO or have concluded your approach to project management is not working and you are in the process of analyzing, dismantling and preparing to rebuild it. PMP-certified project managers?

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A Day in the Life of a Project Manager

LiquidPlanner

Most days for project managers can be fairly similar. And if you like to lead initiatives, there is plenty of room for that when managing complex projects. Teams and project managers can be overbooked and overwhelmed with their workload, juggling too many priorities to finish tasks in time. Analyze the day. Prepare for meetings.

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March Project Madness

LiquidPlanner

Do you ever feel like this same kind of madness is reflected in your project and portfolio management? Portfolio management is the practice, the science and the art of balancing investments and resources between a group of multiple projects. The right project portfolio management tool will help you ensure that isn’t happening.

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Falling in Love with Your Project Plans

LiquidPlanner

When I asked my wife about the theme for this article, she rolled her eyes with wonder on how I could geek out so much on project management. How can I get them to fall in love, as I often do, with the process deployed so that we together can achieve the euphoric feelings that come from delivering on time, on budget and as promised?

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A Compendium of Works to Increase the Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

Here are my collected works, presentations, briefings, journal papers, articles, white papers, and essays, used to increase the Probability of Project Success (PoPS) I've developed and applied over my career in the software-intensive system of systems domain. Managment Processes. Flawless Execution.

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