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Project management: Tips, tools, best practices

CIO

Each phase intersects with any of 10 knowledge areas, which include: integration, scope, time, cost, quality, human resources, communication, risk procurement, and stakeholder management. Scope management: Define scope, create work breakdown structure (WBS), gather requirements. Costs management: Estimate costs, determine budgets.

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What is a project management office (PMO)? The key to standardizing project success

CIO

Project management office (PMO) definition A project management office (PMO) is a group, or functional unit, that sets, maintains, and enforces the practices, policies, and standards for structuring and executing projects within an organization. A good PMO drives discipline, communication, and orchestration.

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Five strategies for skills-based volunteering: Lessons learned from Cloudera Cares first-ever Global Day of Service

Cloudera

As the Program Manager for Cloudera Cares, Cloudera’s employee giving and volunteering program at the Cloudera Foundation, I believe that we can have more impact if we offer employees opportunities for skills-based volunteering. Here is what we learned: Make the case. Make it useful.

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The Tip of the Spear II: Connecting Big Data Project Management with Enterprise Data Strategy

CTOvision

In many organizations this inventorying is easier said than done and may require both manual and automated approaches to creating the necessary inventories. Ideally a portfolio of projects will support an organization’s strategic plan and the goals or missions the organization is charged with pursuing.

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CGS Management Consulting Interview with Ricardo Benn

Capgemini

The management consulting practice area covers a range of topics from financial management to strategic planning and data analysis. As a new business consultant at CGS, I was interested in learning more about our management consulting practice so I reached out to Ricardo Benn for an interview.

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The Big Picture of Business- Professional Education Necessary for Company Success

Strategy Driven

Today's workforce will need three times the amount of training that it now gets if the organization intends to stay in business, remain competitive and tackle the future successfully. Niche trainers impart their own perspectives out of context to the whole of the organization. I conduct Executive Think Tanks for corporate management.