How IT Project Managers Avoid the Pitfalls of IT Projects
When starting the initial planning process of any IT project, it’s common for IT project management professionals to list out the potential risks associated with the project and weight them against the potential benefits. However, it takes an experienced, PMI-Certified IT Project Manager to intuitively understand the common pitfalls of IT projects and how best to avoid them.
5 Ways IT Project Management Leads to Success
Most IT projects hinge success or failure on how the following questions are answered. Was the project delivered on-time? Did the project stay on-budget or come under budget? Did implementation run smoothly? Was the new technology adapted easily by our employees? Hiring a consultant firm that specializes in IT Project Management can help turn these answers from ‘no’ or ‘not quite’ to ‘YES.’
5 Reasons Why You Need an IT Project Manager
From developing project schedules and budgets to monitoring risks and issues, contracting with an IT Project Manager enables you to either hand the project over entirely and focus on your day-to-day operations, or hand off pieces of a large and complex project that is outside of your organization’s wheelhouse.
How to Select the Right Software
We get a lot of requests from organizations to assist with software selection projects. In many cases, the organization is often needing to make a decision quickly due to year-end budgeting or pressure from senior leadership to demonstrate progress. In our experience, a go-slow-to-go-fast approach is often the best plan in situations where the technology […]
Why You Shouldn’t Manage a Project…Alone.
When you think about the word “project management”, most of us think about a single project manager whose responsibility it is to lead a team, preside over meetings or present monthly updates.
Strategic Plans That Lead To Action
A strategic plan should deliver more than just a document that sits on a desk collecting dust – it should deliver a strategy that drives real action and real change. It’s about bringing stakeholders – management, staff, vendors and customers – together in more efficient and effective ways.
Top Project Reporting Challenges
Darby Consulting has identified top reporting challenges faced by project teams and senior leadership based on an array of measurement and project management projects completed by the firm and its consultants. The same top challenges were identified across multiple industries and project types.
What Do You Measure?
Given that managing change is as much an art as it is a science, as a change leader you need to be armed with reliable information to demonstrate that your plans and programs are gaining traction. Measurement is essential because at the end of the day you can’t manage what you don’t measure.
Less Reporting. More Doing
Projects Need Better Measures Today’s climate of corporate downsizing, restructuring and transformation are requiring project managers everywhere to streamline reporting processes and improve efficiency. Teams are frequently overwhelmed by requests for status updates and executive reports that take too much time to create and result in little to no change in project performance.
