Categorie: Project Management

Introduction to IT outsourcing

I’m working 10+ years in IT outsourcing environments with services being provided mainly from India, but also from Hungaria, Malaysia and South-Africa. For getting an idea about IT outsourcing transitions this excellent writing of Stéphane Chalvin is very useful! There is no IT Outsourcing without a Transition The information technology outsourcing …

Communication

In my journey to become a Program Manager there are many interesting books to read. One of them is “Program Management – A Life Cycle Approach” which is edited by Ginger Levin. It’s more or less a summary of the complete “Best Practices and Advances in Program Management Series” of CRC Press. …

Project Initiation Workshop

Project management is the art of defining, planning and coordinating the implementation of a complex piece of work. Companies and organisations are increasingly finding that project approaches improve work outcomes in a wide range of activities, not just those that are defined as projects but “business as usual” as well. …

The Method Adoption Workshop

During my IBM career the method adoption workshop was used several times in the beginning of the project initiation. It’s conducted to expedite the project-planning process. The MAW is a group meeting that requires participation by all project stakeholders both for their expertise and to assure buy-in. It was providing a clear …

The wonderful world of Project Manager

So, project management. What is project management? These where the first thoughts when I was introduced to the wonderful world of scope, cost and schedule. I was studying Network Infrastructure Design and project management was one of the courses. I was immediately intrigued by the consistent and structured methodology. The …