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Letting Things Unfold On Your Projects

April 29th, 2009 · 3 Comments

Some projects are very well defined but others are not. If there is an idea that has been handed down by many, formed into a project that simply needs to be implemented, you may have a well defined project. If, on the other hand, someone or some group has an idea and they simply created a project out of it, then you may have an extra amount of defining to do.

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Business-driven or Technology-driven: What’s Better?

August 14th, 2007 · 1,466 Comments

Should projects be business-driven or technology-driven? This question was asked in a post on gantthead. This is an age-old problem. I don’t think it will ever go away, but we can try! I do not think that CIOs are necessarily ignorant of business needs any more than I have faith that CXOs are able to clearly envision new business paradigms driven by emerging technologies.

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Project Portfolio Management – Basic and Practical

August 7th, 2007 · 20 Comments

Many companies – especially smaller, less formal ones – practice “project portfolio analysis” but do not necessarily call it that. In some cases they might call it program management, if the set of projects they are reviewing are geared to support some sort of focused program.

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