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Project management: Tips, tools, best practices

CIO

What is project management? Project management is a business discipline that involves applying specific processes, knowledge, skills, techniques, and tools to successfully deliver outcomes that meet project goals. Project management steps Project management is broken down into five phases or life cycle.

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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.

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Ensuring Banking Compliance Through Project Management Expertise

Perficient

To bolster its capabilities and ensure compliance, the bank sought assistance from Perficient in delivering exceptional project and program management services to tackle their significant hurdles. Supporting the change management team in building a robust governance structure for program PMO activities.

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Top 15 project management certifications

CIO

Behind every successful IT project, you’ll find a highly skilled project manager. From hardware and software upgrades to ongoing security patches, to application development and the rollout of software itself, project managers keep your teams on task and productive. Top project management certifications.

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Agile and Project Management are still uncomfortable bedfellows

The CTO Group

Renai LeMay is CTO Group’s Advisory Delivery Manager. He is certified across Project Management, IT Service Management and Agile methodologies. Where does the new breed of Agile methodologies fit in with a traditional Project Management approach? Agile practitioners feel more or less the same way about PMs.

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3 key roles for driving digital success

CIO

Data architects, who partner with data scientists and data governance specialists, ensure new data sources are cataloged, comply with enterprise naming conventions, and adhere to data security requirements. CIOs should look to revitalize their program management offices (PMOs) from top-down compliance drivers to bottom-up service providers.

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

CTOvision

Department of Transportation's CIO, describes four components for what I call an “enterprise data strategy”: Data governance. This in turn impacts our ability to justify project expenditures in advance. Portfolio Management. In Meeting the Mission of Transportation Safety , Richard McKinney, U.S. Data sharing. Data standards.