Managing Requirements: Verification vs. Validation
A common source of project failure over the past two decades has continued to be the management or mismanagement of project requirements. We are not going to discuss…
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Establishing a Successful IT PM Mentoring Program
Welcome back and if you did not read my previous blog post for August, you might want to quickly do that as it is background material for this follow-on post…
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IT Project Management Theory vs. Practice
A question that is asked in many of my seminars is: “This is fine in theory, but what about practice: how do you manage IT projects in real life?” This is the fine line between…
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FITARA: Improvement or Impasse?
Anyone associated with government IT acquisitions, project management, or systems operation is likely to be familiar with the recently passed (Dec. 19, 2014) Federal Information Technology…
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Moving IT PM to Agile
One of the trickiest and formidable challenges facing many organizations is that of moving from the Waterfall to Agile lifecycle approaches to their IT project management activities. For instance, government organizations have a long and practiced history in the application of the traditional or sequential approach to managing all types of projects. These involved major […]
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