HP BTO Software Centers – Overview07/24/2008 by Peter Helfenstein
HP offers a number of BTO Centers. These software packages support in the context of a BTO strategy specific phases of the application lifecycle. The following overview is meant to shed light on the HP BTO jungle.
IT STRATEGY
Project and Portfolio Management Center (CIO Office)
The IT management solution enables control and documentation of the enterprise [...]
Business Technology Optimization (BTO)07/22/2008 by Klaus Otto
The New Role of IT
For many years, all IT departments seem to have taken up the cause of cost reducing. This has changed. Business managers more and more consider IT a lever for boosting growth. Particularly, this means for IT departments to implement new business models and concepts as fast as possible.
In most cases, IT [...]
Project Roadmap: Quick Wins with Iterations07/17/2008 by Marco Gerussi
My blog Scoping – A Guarantee for Success through Harmonized Expectations describes how to identify factors that are most relevant to the success of the project:
Expectations of all key roles are defined and synchronized from the start
The technical system architecture is designed
The functional requirements are defined
An implementation roadmap comprising project contents, required organizations and project [...]
A Strategy is a Story07/02/2008 by Michael Loebbert
As a reminder of what a strategy is and what it should provide:
It organizes and coordinates a variety of acts and decisions of one or more persons to a common goal,
it makes this in a deliberate contrast to other perhaps possible approaches, takes a conscious decision and risk.
Effectiveness is achieved not only with orientation, concentration [...]
Project Scoping - Aligning Expectations07/01/2008 by Marco Gerussi
Projects often fail to be successful due to diverging, badly aligned expectations
Dozens of statistics seem to suggest that there are dozens of reasons why projects fail to be successful. However, a great deal of them are attributable to vaguely defined objectives, problems related to technical architecture and a lack of management support. These causes, [...]
Proof of Concept - Less Risk for System Implementations06/26/2008 by Marco Gerussi
Scoping for defined requirements and harmonized expectations
The scoping approach allows you to define requirements, expectations and project scopes when systems, methods and processes are implemented. This results in aligned expectations, a well-designed system architecture, defined requirements as well as a structured implementation roadmap. If the roadmap is implemented in several iterations, quick wins are achieved [...]
Lifecycle Management – no Pain, no Gain!06/24/2008 by Dieter Steiger
Successful IT Planning & Control must include not only IT Service Management and Project & Portfolio Management, but also Application Lifecycle Management in order to be of lasting benefit. The following illustration by Gartner clearly demonstrates this.
Considering the support of the various areas and, above all, of the interfaces between them, it is obvious that [...]
BTO - Application Development as a Lifecycle Process06/20/2008 by Klaus Otto
An enterprise applying a BTO Strategy principally strives for three goals: to increase the benefit of the strategic business applications, to better align functional IT projects with these strategic business applications, and to generally manage all enterprise applications with the aid of an efficient end-to-end (E2E) process which is digitized and largely automated, while process [...]
HP PPM Best Practices – From an Idea to a Specification04/21/2008 by Markus von der Heiden
Optimal preparation for development
The blog post “HP PPM Best Practices - The Key to Success” deals with the preparatory steps which are necessary to develop a solution based on HP’s BTO tool suite. These steps are a prerequisite for working out a specification. The present blog presents a best practice approach to the transfer of [...]
Only Motivated Users Make IT Projects Successful04/01/2008 by Dietmar Wettach
The introduction of a new IT solution entails a large deal of different changes. New roles and responsibilities must be defined, supported by additional new software. An early integration of the future users is of great importance, but very often, there is not enough attention paid to it.
A typical example from a “normal” project: [...]