GovernIT

I was reading a great article from Harwinder of Deep Fried Brain on 20 Common Project Risk Management Terms Explained. The other two terms that are quite important in the risk Management domain are Risk Probability and Risk Impact.
These are usually quantitative and provide guidance on correctly prioritizing risks (and therefore allocating the planned contingency [...]

Organizational memory is dangerous, whether it has a long memory or a short memory does not matter.
If it has a short memory, mistakes happen repeatedly, while a long memory causes fear of failure by thinking “Oh, we have tried it”

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The first part of this series provided an overview of the PMO, types of PMOs and typical functions.
The second part looked at the role of PMO in setting up and monitoring Change Management processes and activities.
The third part discussed the Quality Management responsibilities of a PMO and provided a table of contents to a Quality [...]

The first part of this series provided an overview of the PMO, types of PMOs and typical functions.
The second part looked at the role of PMO in setting up and monitoring Change Management processes and activities.
This post looks at the Quality Management/Assurance responsibilities of the PMO.
Quality Management is a less-emphasized function of the PMO. In [...]

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We started off the PMO series with a basic introduction about the PMO – terminologies, the different types of PMO and some of its typical functions.
Let’s talk about one very important part of a PMO function – Change Management. Change is the only constant in life – cliched? Of course, but true nevertheless. It is [...]

Alistair Cockburn on collaboration aka teamwork
Collaboration is a dance of contribution, requiring that people alternately step forward to contribute and step back to let others contribute.
Old, on the Internet timeline, but timeless on the timeline of human endeavours.
I cannot possibly write anything on this that is better than what Alistair has already said. Maybe, some [...]

Over the years, the management of IT projects has evolved considerably. Project Managers managed and delivered projects, regardless of size. However, with increasing complexity of IT projects, it was becoming difficult to deliver projects on time, within budget and with acceptable quality levels.
Project Management began to be studied as a separate discipline and project management [...]

A long title, but that is because I couldn’t find a shorter and apt one.
In this blog by forrester research (posted on CIO.com, by the way), CIOs have identified a few things they would like to see in their organizations in 2010.
I’ll summarize the basic points here, while you can read the rest of the [...]

Major product and service companies in the ITSM space have announced a collaborative effort to define standards for service portfolios and catalogs.
ITIL v3 introduced service portfolio, catalog, and request processes, which are the bedrock of the ITIL framework. However, there are no standard definitions of what constitutes a service, how to define and measure a [...]

I was witnessing an interesting discussion today on what IT Governance is all about. There were a lot of quotes, including definitions from ITGI and CIOs of large corporations.
I had an “aha” moment when I heard a wonderful definition – IT Management is within the IT function, whereas IT Governance is outside it.
In other words, [...]