Strategy Execution

Executing on your IT vision requires making investment decisions and allocating your human and financial resources to the disciplined pursuit of your key strategies and enabling projects. ...

... "This requires clear decisions with priorities and clear IT resource allocation based on priorities—adjusted to relevant changes as they arise. " ...

Via CIO Insight: Executing IT Strategy

Project Team Recruiting

As you forecast the staffing of your project team resources into your planning horizon, soft skills such as teamwork, commitment, and work ethic are intangibles that should factor into your decisions. Returning military personnel can offer these intangibles in addition to specific work experiences and position your projects for success. ...

... "That's because more companies now see the value of military experience, in terms of skills training, work ethic and culture, which stresses teamwork, loyalty and integrity ... " ...

Via NYTimes Career Couch: Armed Forces

Resource Project Portfolio to Capacity

Managing resources to capacity can provide the right amount of focus to actually accelerate the delivery on projects over time. ...

... "The only way to prevent the continual extension of deadlines is to cap the maximum amount of work in process, and to hold back assigning additional work until existing work is completed and fully utilized resources are freed up. Only when there is capacity for staff to take on new work should new work be added. " ...

Via redOrbit: Project Management Paradox

SAP Project Managment Matures

SAP uses customer input to shape the future of its project management software capabilities in cProject module. ...

... "When it comes to functionality, cProjects 4.5 is a winner in the areas of multi-project and resource management. For example, the new Multi-Project Monitor displays several projects, including their relationships, in graphical form and therefore portrays the business dependencies, for example between the main project and sub-projects. " ...

Via SAP INFO: Ramp-up process for cProjects 4.5

UK IT Contract Projects Market Forecast for Resource Planning

A downturn in IT investment is forecast in the UK for 2008. Any decline should be gradual as the first quarter is expected to be flat. ...

... "Should the IT contract market decline, organisations will be focusing on manning IT projects using permanent staff. The real focus will be on maintaining a lower cost model. " ...

Via UK Contractor: 2008

Resource Planning for Project Success

IT services organization, Parity, sees resource planning as an opportunity to position projects for success. Their whitepaper offers advice that includes a thorough planning period, setting appropriate resource durations to support sourcing arrangements, and a disciplined approach to recruiting project talent. They see shortages in skilled IT resources as a strategic challenge confronting the IT space. ...

... "Failure to get IT resource requirements mapped out adequately is undermining the chances of IT projects succeeding and raises the risk of projects going over time and budget warns Parity ... " ...

Via Parity: Inadequate resource planning puts projects at risk

Seasonality in Project Resource Plans

Wishing you a nice holiday this summer ... don't forget to update your resource plans. ...

... "Kevin Fitzpatrick, CIO at Sodexho U.K., said plans are often made irrespective of the fact so many key people will be away. " ...

Via ZDNet Asia: Summer impact on IT projects

Strategic Execution

Should a role be dedicated to realizing the benefits of digitized business processes? Should this fall to the Chief Operating Officer, COO, if one exists? Ultimately, the role needs to drive adoption and ensure that business leaders are engaged. ...

... "Problems arise not so much from the technology as from the management challenges of driving the business-process changes once systems are in place. Installing and using companywide information-technology business processes requires cooperation and sharing of resources across businesses, regions and functions. " ...

Via WSJ: Role of SEO

Results Project Failure Poll

Communications, resource planning, and scheduling were identified as top root causes of project failures in CompTIA poll. ...

... "Nearly 28 percent of the more than 1,000 respondents to the web poll singled out poor communications as the number one cause of project failure. Insufficient resource planning was the second most mentioned cause of project failure, cited by just less than 18 percent of poll respondents. The third most frequent cause of project failure, according to the CompTIA web poll, was an unrealistic schedule, chosen by 13.2 percent of poll participants. " ...

Via CompTIA: Project Failure - Root Cause Poll ...