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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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Women IT leaders take center stage

CIO

Early in her career as a program management specialist at AT&T, Balaban became an active member with the Project Management Institute’s New Jersey chapter, which put her front and center at plenty of events. I found a project I was told was impossible to do, gathered a team together, got some funding, and did it.

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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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People of Perficient: Meet John Ideler, Director of Healthcare and Life Sciences

Perficient

I joined the healthcare team several years later, as I had already been managing multiple healthcare projects. While a part of the healthcare team as a senior project manager, leadership asked me to lead the execution team. The team grew from three project managers up to 22 team members as of today.

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What is change management? A guide to organizational transformation

CIO

What is the main purpose of change management? In modern IT, change management has many different guises. Project managers view change management as the process used to obtain approval for changes to the scope, timeline, or budget of a project. Why is change management difficult?

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SAFe certification: launch your Scaled Agile Framework career

CIO

Earning a SAFe certification demonstrates you possess the skills and knowledge needed to help your organization manage projects with a higher degree of agility. Numerous SAFe certifications are on offer, grouped at the foundational, intermediate, and advanced levels. Each is targeted for a specific role.

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