beteo

Advantages of Using a Project Leadership System

10/16/2008 by Robert Sutz

The articles Efficient and Targeted Project Execution describe how project leadership systems support project and portfolio managers. The following list summarizes the advantages of the use of a Project Leadership System.

Modern project leadership systems provide fast and efficient access to all leadership information for the leadership team – from project manager to steering committee.
All leadership [...]

Efficient and Targeted Project Execution (Part 2)

10/07/2008 by Robert Sutz

To support project and portfolio managers in their daily management of project execution work, Leadership Systems are used more and more frequently. Modern Project Leadership Systems offer predefined project execution processes which support the activities and decisions of the leadership team. In addition, they allow all relevant information (requests, decisions, risks, provisions, changes) to be [...]

Efficient and Targeted Project Execution (Part 1)

10/06/2008 by Robert Sutz

In order to meet time and budget requirements in complex projects and to accomplish projects successfully, clear leadership is required involving all project team members. At this point, software and Internet-based leadership systems are a great support.
It´s no secret to project managers, portfolio managers and people in charge of planning: According to new statistics, about [...]

5 Comments »

Integrating HP PPM with HP Quality Center – As Simple as It Looks?

09/30/2008 by Marcel Morf

Very often, the processes of change & transport and quality management in the IT organzation are technically not very tightly integrated. Although organizationally, they are well coordinated, with both processes being clearly defined, digitized, automated and constantly improved, I doubt if their integration is tight enough.

HP Software, a significant vendor not only of the process [...]

A Question of Culture

09/22/2008 by Michael Loebbert

Perhaps you know the history of the PT Cruiser. Sure, you have seen this car on the street, the look is retro, fuel consumption is too high, technology and security are average. When Daimler joined in the responsibility for Daimler Chrysler, the PT Cruiser was just launched and taken for a flop. The production [...]

ITIL, PRINCE2, PMI – Just Paper Tigers?

09/01/2008 by Marco Gerussi

Historically developed IT structure
Within their IT organizations, enterprises historically distinguish between project business, IT operations and IT development. In addition to these separate areas, there are several processes and systems for project requests, notification of incidents and problem management.
ITIL, PRINCE2 and PMI are Used Separately within their Silos?
For these processes, there are standards such as [...]

OC Oerlikon - How SAP Roll-in Projects can Fail

07/25/2008 by Dieter Steiger

On Friday, October 26, 2007, inside-it.ch reported that OC Oerlikon will stop its super SAP project. The new approach is said to provide a „more intelligent, more flexible and cheaper solution that integrates all ERP systems of the business units using a central SAP consolidation tool“.
This seems to simplify things, but why is it that [...]

Project Roadmap: Quick Wins with Iterations

07/17/2008 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 [...]

Project Scoping - Aligning Expectations

07/01/2008 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, [...]