Project Management is the discipline of organizing and managing resources in such a way that these resources deliver all the work required to complete a project within defined scope, time, and cost constraints. A project is a temporary and one-time endeavor undertaken to create a unique product or service. This property of being a temporary and a one-time undertaking contrasts with processes, or operations, which are permanent or semi-permanent ongoing functional work to create the same product or service over-and-over again.
Project Management
Harnessing Collective Intelligence to Improve IT Project Management
published by Crowdcast on Mar 09, 2010
Leverage the tacit knowledge in your organization to identify, understand, and proactively reduce risk.
Get More IT Resources - 10 Things You Can Do Today
published by Varonis on Dec 14, 2009
Varonis DatAdvantage automates these 10 IT must do's. DatAdvantage delivers the visibility and automated auditing you need to determine who can access your unstructured data, who is accessing it and who should have access.
The Top 10 Reasons for Choosing Open Source Data Integration
published by Talend on Sep 09, 2009
Are you trying to understand your options for data integration?
Getting Consensus on Business Requirements: Tips and Traps
published by IAG Consulting on Aug 21, 2009
Before your company launches its next package selection, implementation or upgrade, make sure you don’t cripple the project from the start by failing to identify your requirements – the number one reason that projects spin out of control. This white paper summarizes some of the key lessons we have learned through our industry-leading requirements definition practice.
Getting Business Requirements Right
published by IAG Consulting on Aug 21, 2009
The later in the system development life-cycle that major errors are discovered the more expensive it is to fix them. But the earliest stages of the systems development lifecycle (SDLC) are most often the least consistently executed. This paper describes a methodology that brings the early stages of the SDLC up to a high level of maturity: consistent, proven, and optimized for success.
Six Do's and Don'ts for Choosing the Right IT Service Provider: An Executive's Guide and Checklist
published by iCorps on Jun 11, 2009
Finding the right IT service provider is not as simple as it may seem. Choosing a service provider based exclusively on low price may be good for your bottom line, but may fall short on delivering the right level of IT expertise and resource scalability for long-term advantage.
The LANDesk ITBM Maturity Model
published by Avocent LANDesk on Jun 02, 2009
A proven framework for delivering business alignment and implementing best practices for IT service management.
Good To Great IT
published by Avocent LANDesk on Mar 23, 2009
Peters' and Waterman's well-known book 'In Search of Excellence', a study of some of the most well-managed companies in the United States at that time, was one of the best-known business books of the 1980s. In the book, the authors identified eight common themes which they argued were responsible for the success of the included corporations. These attributes included hands-on management, centralized values accompanied by entrepreneurial productivity, and focusing on the core business (sticking to the knitting).
Third-Party Analyst Report: Budget Adjustments For CIOs In Lean Economic Times
published by ASG Software Solutions on Feb 22, 2010
CIOs have faced lean economic times before, and they will inevitably face them again. Forrester advises CIOs to base budget cuts on the impact to the business and to IT productivity. This report examines a variety of cost-reduction techniques by budget category and impact.
Third-Party White Paper by EMA: SLM and BSM: The Future of IT Management. Are You Ready?
published by ASG Software Solutions on Feb 22, 2010
SLM helps ensure that committed levels of service quality are delivered - SLM is the process of setting, measuring, and ensuring the maintenance of IT service goals. BSM is an approach to IT service management that optimizes the performance of the business. BSM provides a mapping between business objectives and the IT services that support those objectives.
What Every Healthcare IT Manager Needs to Know for AIX Environments - How to Solve Downtime Challeng
published by Vision Solutions ITWP on Feb 09, 2010
The ability to deliver and assure optimum availability to clinical systems and data is critical to the success of healthcare organizations. As providers become increasingly dependent on electronic medical records and medical delivery technologies, they must keep those applications, databases and networks available and accessible-no matter what. This white paper shows how information availability solutions ensure the availability and accessibility of data and applications, regardless of planned or unplanned interruptions.
Dell's SMART Approach to Workload Automation
published by BMC on Feb 05, 2010
In enterprises around the world, stale job scheduling software lingers for fear of the costs and risks of conversion. Dell's experience yields the following lessons in the successful conversion and exploitation of workload automation software: 1. Choose software with a proven track record for rapid and uneventful conversions. 2. Choose a vendor with a proven track record for superior customer service. 3. Choose a solution supporting enterprise-wide frameworks that align IT services with business needs - the primary tenet of IT Service Management (ITSM). 4. Choose products that permit a modular approach so that the company can selectively target automation areas while also controlling the duration, ROI, and scope of projects.
SMART, Modular, Cost-Effective Steps to Workload Automation
published by BMC on Feb 05, 2010
This paper proposes a high-level methodology for implementation of Workload Automation (WLA) - a mature evolution of job scheduling that automates complex IT processing. WLA delivers benefits including decreased staffing costs, increased efficiency, improved customer service, better resource utilization, fewer outage minutes, and improved business service delivery.
Managing Oracle WebLogic Server with Oracle Enterprise Manager
published by Oracle Corp. on Dec 17, 2009
Organizations have to be agile to compete globally and adapt to changes in technology. Most organizations run middleware applications based on disparate systems and technologies. However, use of these disparate technologies poses many challenges and complexities to the administrators, including over-inflated management costs.
Show Me the Money! How Life in the ITIL Fast Lane Can Deliver Success
published by Numara Software on Dec 10, 2009
In this white paper, authored by Numara Software and Pink Elephant, we examine the critical role of having effective processes in driving down service costs. In particular, the paper demonstrates the importance of process and automation in helping IT executives stretch their IT budget further.
Social media strategy: Word-of-mouth marketing for the digital age
published by Ektron on Oct 28, 2009
Social media allows people to be more connected than ever before and the mediums available for marketing are changing rapidly as new technologies come available. Online users are communicating in real time and every brand in the world is being caught up in the conversation whether they are participating or not.
Operational Excellence for Distributed, Interconnected Applications
published by Progress Software BTA on Oct 26, 2009
Modern distributed, interconnected applications provide a new level of agility to businesses and IT. In these applications, the software for a business process is composed of "services," components consisting of discrete business functionality that can be recombined and reused in different business processes, enabling rapid business change. This white paper examines the challenges of, and solutions for, effectively managing their operations.
System z Linux Proof of Concept - Project Management Best Practices
published by Mainline Information Systems on Oct 20, 2009
From planning, to proving, to production, there are a lot of intricate details to think about when you are considering a Linux implementation. In this webcast, Marianne Eggett summarizes industry best practices for project management of your IBM System z Linux (POC).
Continuous Testing with ElectricCommander
published by Electric Cloud on Oct 13, 2009
Drive quality earlier in the development process with continuous testing. Large development organizations have increasingly been adopting select agile practices to enable faster development, create more reliable software, and reduce costs. Chief among these practices is providing developers early and frequent feedback from users, from other developers, and especially from the programming, build, and test tools. In the latter category, continuous integration and continuous testing are emerging as valuable techniques for identifying errors early so they can be corrected immediately by the developer who made the code changes.
Checklist: Midmarket ERP Solutions
published by Focus ITWP on Oct 13, 2009
Learn how to control your rising business costs by choosing a midmarket ERP solution. Download your Research Briefing now.
Checklist: 10 Strategies for Choosing a Midmarket ERP Solution
published by Focus ITWP on Oct 13, 2009
Find out how to use the changing ERP market to your advantage. Download your free checklist today!
Email Archiving: Realizing the Cost Savings and Other Benefits from SaaS
published by Proofpoint on Oct 01, 2009
Email archiving is a best practice for organizations of all sizes that can help them meet their legal obligations, regulatory requirements, knowledge management needs and storage management requirements. For organizations today, the question is not if they should archive email, but how they should move forward with deploying email archiving technology.
The new face of IT service management
published by IBM on Sep 10, 2009
In today's business climate, IT organizations need to demonstrate their ability to add value. This white paper from Macehiter Ward-Dutton - an IT advisory firm that specializes in issues of IT-business alignment
Integrate facilities and IT. Realize the value of the green data center.
published by IBM on Sep 10, 2009
As data center costs continue to rise, green is the word of the day. What it means is cost savings through consolidation and lower energy usage, as this white paper shows. See the role energy consumption plays in today's data centers, and how IBM Tivoli solutions can help optimize energy use in the data center.
IDC report: Profitability and OSS Support: A Return on Investment Analysis of IBM Tivoli Netcool
published by IBM on Sep 10, 2009
IDC studied 14 mobile and fixed-line service providers that implemented Tivoli Netcool and found that IBM Tivoli Netcool can help in big ways. It reduces costs by improving operational efficiencies and still allows you to deliver a high-quality custom management.
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