I promise this will also be about project management. Obviously, in large organizations you have a bunch of international teams consisting of individuals from all around the world, working on the same software solution. Each team being responsible for a particular part of the software. However, you also have the local teams that communicate using […]
Modern problems require modern solutions. With the internet boom in the 90’s IT projects became larger and more complex in nature requiring more software tools to manage the projects themselves. With the advent of Agile and Scrum, one such tool that became massively popular through the IT industry is Jira. Jira, created by an Australian-based […]
Benefits are easily identifiable depending on the sector you operate in. The values that are created as a result of a project being executed can also be clearly stated. However for certain fields, IT for example, benefits sometimes are not clearly specified. The nature of IT related projects usually is a accompanied by undetermined deadlines. […]
A quick reflection on Week 3’s lecture on the Benefits Realization Framework. I’ve come to realize that, applying the BRM Framework, in whole, in the real world would be too cumbersome. PMI presents its esteemed framework as being a complete project management process. However, in the real world it would take a lot of logistics […]
Often times, when we start to learn about things we can use to make our work and lives better, we focus primarily on the technical aspects and put little attention to the more human side of things. In my experience so far, learning a new project management framework is a good example. You start to […]
One of the things I would like to rant about today is, companies that let themselves be ruled by ‘powerful’ clients. And I don’t mean the Hollywood mafia style of powerful clients. I mean clients that are bigger than the organization they buy products from. Big powerful corporations with multi-billion dollar capital and resources spread […]
Today I had an appointment with an old work colleague to catch up on things. I had the opportunity to explain what the company I work for does and told him that I was doing a master programme. And, that I need to write an analysis paper on how organizations manage projects. I told him […]
I would like to share some of the realizations I’m making during my research on project management and the project management paradigm advocated by the Project Management Institute (PMI) . As someone who hasn’t managed projects for a living yet, I have a tough time painting a mental picture how projects and portfolios are managed. […]
Today I want to do a quick blog on some enlightenment I got while doing some reading on how organizations can connect business strategies to IT projects. I was reading an article on CIO.com titled “Aligning IT project and business strategies: why you should and how you can” that talks about aligning projects to business […]
Soon I will have to write a paper analysis on how an organization, of my choosing, manages projects. One of the questions that I will need to answer is how they connect business strategies to IT projects. Being someone who writes code for a living and rarely deals with the more managerial aspects of a […]
