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Mark Roberts, Technical Director of Prosperon Networks, joins hosts Chrystal Taylor and Sean Sebring to salute the unique challenges of IT project management. From the joys of scope creep to the intricacies of wrangling leadership buy-in, they cover the life of a project from initial discovery process all the way through…
I really liked this piece by my SolarWinds associate Brandon Shopp on how project management is key to project success and requires a combination of technical and soft skills. Public sector IT departments have undergone sweeping modernization efforts, from virtualization and mobility to cloud computing and digital…
All too often, companies put the wrong people on projects, and all too often, the wrong people are involved with the project. We see projects where the people making key decisions lack a basic understanding of the technology involved. I’ve been involved with hundreds of projects in which key decisions for the technology…
In this, my fifth and final post about life hacks, I’ll talk about the communication process, clarifications across all key personnel, and a big approach in how some of these are accomplished: the Stand-up/Walking the Wall approach. What is it? Well, the concept of walking the wall is a somewhat structured “Stand-up”…
Recently, I wrote a post about the concept of a pre-mortem, which was inspired by an amazing podcast I’d heard (listen to it here). I felt that this concept could be interpreted exceptionally well within a framework of project management. The idea that thinking of as many variables and hindrances to the success of…
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