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Project Governance
Project governance is the framework encompassing all guidelines, processes, decision-making models and tools when undertaking a project. Each organisation should adjust this general framework to the policies and governance method it has in place. Projects...
The 12 Key Factors in Project Profitability
This article offers an analysis of the main factors influencing project profitability. This is a complicated topic and no sweeping generalizations should be made. Hence, these factors must be adapted to the specific circumstances surrounding each organization, sector and client.
Corporate environmental factors that affect project management
Environmental factors can greatly influence a company´s management and resources that are often times required to complete a project.
Key assets for project management in an organization
The key assets comprising the processes in place at an organization can be divided into many methods Processes and procedures during the start-up and planning, corporate knowledge etc.
Organizational structures and project management
Organizational structures are one of the factors that project based organizations should consider as they can seriously affect the style of project management.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work. Peter Drucker
Planning is complicated, but it is even harder to turn that plan into a reality. Putting the entire team to work in a coordinated manner without losing effort is a real challenge
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Information systems strategy management: positioning
In implementing strategic alignment there are various positionings which can be established, providing a framework within which the organisation will manage the application of IT. The positioning adopted by the company, ideally by means of an explicit...
Project Manager = CEO of MyProject Inc.
It is said that a project manager should think and act like a CEO of a small enterprise, that enterprise being the project itself. How should a project manager behave when appointed CEO of MyProject Inc.? If you have a habit of committing, then you will...
What does an ineffective project manager look like?
You may have had some experience with a project manager who was not as efficient as perhaps they should have been. When we come across an ineffective project manager, what do you usually think of them? Which characteristics upset you most?
Planning and budgeting, the CIO’s dilemma
One of the main functions of the CIO is to estimate the planning and budgeting of the projects that will take place in the near future.
Micromanagement, that great enemy of the PMO
Sometimes we think of project management offices as control centres of hours, tasks and people. ITM Platform suggests a more open, distributed and value-generating PMO. Let’s make no mistake, control is important. But there are many ways to practice it,...