at itec achieving it success through pm best practices
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Achieving IT Success Through Project Management
Best Practices
Jan SchillerVP, Project Management
Berkshire Consulting, [email protected]
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Achieving IT Success: Defined?
• (more opportunities to ) Improve– key financial and nonfinancial corporate assets– top-and bottom-line performance; – cash flow and free up working capital.– turnover – profitability
• Reduce – capital appetite of the company; – total cost of ownership– Overall costs– Head count
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Best Practice #1: Having Best Practices• Help everyone apply them effectively. • Keep It Simple • Distinguish between
– Project Management and Solution Delivery processes
– Standard and Rigor
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Best Practice #2: Share and Grow• Capture, use and share experience. • Cooperate with one another.• Collaborate with each other.• Become culturally competent.• Exploit each other’s strengths.
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"Corporations that embrace Knowledge Management for Project Management can expect productivity of application development increases of 40%."
(Murch, 2001)
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Best Practice #3: Have Confidence• Get comfortable being uncomfortable. • Be curious. • Never assume. Know when you are
making an assumption.
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Best Practice #4: No Corporate Craziness• Be ….
– open, – honest, and – timely ….with your communication.
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Best Practice #5: Plan • Have a plan• Work the plan. • Track against the plan.• Never describe progress as a
percentage.
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Best Practice #6: Prioritize• Have strategic objectives.• Prototype.• Act accordingly.• Review and screen regularly
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Best Practice #7: Not All Projects Deserve to Live• Kill the project that is without clearly
understood: – requirements. – scope.– adequate resources.– sustained sponsor commitment and
involvement.
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Your action items:• Understand your organization• Determine the best way to develop and
apply best practices. • Select and focus on one or two at a time• Rinse, and repeat.
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What else should we explore?
What questions do you have?
What best practices would you like to share?
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