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ALSO CALLED: Enterprise Project Management and IT Project Management DEFINITION: Project management is a methodical approach to planning and guiding project processes from start to finish. According to the Project Management Institute, the processes are guided through five stages: initiation, planning, executing, controlling, and closing. Project management can be applied to almost any type of project and is widely used to control the complex processes of software development projects. … Definition continues below.
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Getting Requirements Right : Avoiding the Top Ten Traps sponsored by IBM WHITE PAPER: This white paper presents 10 common and devastating mistakes that project teams make in defining and managing requirements. More importantly, it discusses how to avoid these traps so you can get your requirements right and develop the right product on time and within budget. Posted: 04 Nov 2009 \| Published: 04 Nov 2009 TOPICS: Budgeting \| Business Management \| Document Management \| Documentation \| Project Management \| Project Management Software

Data Center Projects: Project Management sponsored by APC WHITE PAPER: This paper presents a framework for project management roles and relationships that is understandable, comprehensive, and adaptable to any size project. Posted: 02 Nov 2009 \| Published: 02 Nov 2009 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Business Process Management \| Data Center Management \| Data Centers \| Project Management \| Project Management Software \| Project Portfolio Management

10 Reasons to Love Migrations: A Guide to Easing Oracle E-Business Suite Management sponsored by Unitask, Inc. WHITE PAPER: Read this paper to learn about the operational costs and resource drains that organizations need to address when they engage in Oracle E-Business Suite projects. This paper provides tips about process automation and native tools, which help eliminate errors and simplify project execution. Posted: 20 Oct 2009 \| Published: 20 Oct 2009 TOPICS: Business Process Automation \| eBusiness \| eBusiness Software \| Object-Oriented Databases \| Oracle (Product) \| Project Management \| Risk Management \| Software Migration

Optimizing Daily and Routine Maintenance in the Oil & Gas Industry through Project Portfolio Management sponsored by Oracle Corporation WHITE PAPER: Project portfolio management solutions, such as Oracle's Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management, help oil and gas executives successfully manage their daily and routine maintenance projects, by enabling them to more effectively manage resources, capture best practices and complete projects on-time and within budget. Posted: 09 Oct 2009 \| Published: 09 Oct 2009 TOPICS: Best Practices \| Oracle (Product) \| Portfolio Management (IT Management) \| Project Management \| Project Management Software \| Project Portfolio Management

Managing Project and Portfolio Risk in the Oil and Gas Industry During an Economic Downturn sponsored by Oracle Corporation WHITE PAPER: Project portfolio management solutions, such as those from Oracle, enable project leaders to successfully manage risk, even in this volatile climate. They also enable companies to identify the best strategies for pursuing existing projects and to identify the most-promising future projects for investment. Posted: 09 Oct 2009 \| Published: 09 Oct 2009 TOPICS: Economic Environment \| Oracle (Product) \| Portfolio Management (IT Management) \| Project Management \| Project Management Software \| Project Portfolio Management

Change Management Best Practices for the Engineering and Construction Industry sponsored by Oracle Corporation WHITE PAPER: The purpose of this white paper is to highlight best practices of identifying and managing changes that might occur on a construction project, and provide a process to effectively manage changes on construction projects. Posted: 08 Oct 2009 \| Published: 08 Oct 2009 TOPICS: Best Practices \| Change Management \| Construction Industry \| Contract Management \| Contracts \| Project Management

The Capital Delivery Revolution and Technology: Connecting Capital Planning, Construction, and Everything in Between sponsored by Oracle Corporation WHITE PAPER: This white paper recognizes three principal solution areas in the capital project delivery lifecycle: project design, project execution, and organizational governance. In particular, it addresses the area of project execution and the means available today to drive successful project delivery on a consistent basis. Posted: 08 Oct 2009 \| Published: 08 Oct 2009 TOPICS: Architectural Services Industry \| Business Process Automation \| Collaboration \| Construction Industry \| Engineering Services Industry \| Oracle (Product) \| Program Management \| Project Management \| Risk Management

Information Connect: Program Management in the Public Interest - Primavera Enterprise Project Portfolio Management Solutions sponsored by Oracle Corporation WHITE PAPER: Oracle's Primavera enterprise project portfolio management solutions help organizations effectively and efficiently invest their funds for the good of the public. Posted: 08 Oct 2009 \| Published: 08 Oct 2009 TOPICS: Collaboration \| Program Management \| Project Management \| Project Management Software \| Regulatory Compliance \| Reporting Software

Modernizing Your Legacy AS/400 applications sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company WHITE PAPER: With recent AS/400 announcements, companies operating on the AS/400 today have a decision to make—rehost, rewrite, or replace. The key thing to remember when migrating your AS/400 application infrastructure is that it is all about delivering the intended business outcome— generating new services to win new customers. Posted: 28 Sep 2009 \| Published: 28 Sep 2009 TOPICS: Business Process Management \| Platform as a service \| Project Management \| Project Management Software \| Project Portfolio Management \| Software Configuration Management \| Software Migration

Project Comparisons: AS/400 WebSphere vs. HP/Oracle/INFINITE sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company WHITE PAPER: Read this paper for a detail comparison of AS/400 WebSphere and HP/Oracle/INFINITE. Points of contrast include initial cost, ease of upgrade, return on investment, duration and intensity of training, and total cost of investment. Posted: 28 Sep 2009 \| Published: 28 Sep 2009 TOPICS: IT Infrastructure \| IT Management \| Oracle (Product) \| Project Management \| Project Management Software \| Project Portfolio Management \| ROI \| TCO \| WebSphere

Steps Data Architects Should Take to Improve Developer and DBA Collaboration for an Easier Project, a Better Product and a Stronger Team sponsored by Embarcadero Technologies, Inc. WHITE PAPER: This paper will take a look at some of the problems that project data and process architects face in working with other IT roles as well as seven easy and inexpensive steps they can take to ensure a collaborative team environment. Posted: 10 Sep 2009 \| Published: 10 Sep 2009 TOPICS: Business Processes \| Collaboration \| Collaborative Master Data Management \| Data Management \| Database Administration \| Database Administrators \| Databases \| DB2 \| IT Management \| Project Management \| Project Portfolio Management \| Regulatory Compliance

A Guide to Successful CRM Implementations sponsored by Relavis Corporation WHITE PAPER: Successful CRM implementations require 3 basic fundamentals - methodology, management, and continuous improvement. This white paper addresses key components of a CRM implementation methodology which will ensure success: Project Team Organization, Implementation Roadmap, Project Lifecycle, and Post-implementation Approach. Posted: 08 Sep 2009 \| Published: 08 Sep 2009 TOPICS: Business Process Management \| Change Management \| CRM \| CRM Best Practices \| CRM Services \| Customer Satisfaction \| Project Management \| Project Portfolio Management

Anatomy of a JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Archiving Project sponsored by IBM WHITE PAPER: The basic principles for managing an archiving project presented in this paper can help you initiate and plan an archiving strategy that meets your organization’s requirements. Posted: 04 Sep 2009 \| Published: 04 Sep 2009 TOPICS: Business IT Alignment \| Data Center Management \| Data Management \| Enterprise \| Enterprise Content Management \| Project Management

Removing the Barriers to IT Governance: How On-Demand Software Changes the Game sponsored by Innotas WHITE PAPER: IT governance has a well-deserved reputation for being extremely complicated, expensive, and time-consuming. But today’s CEOs and governing boards expect accountability, strategic alignment, cost saving, and contributions to overall growth from IT departments, all of which can be facilitated by IT governance. Posted: 03 Sep 2009 \| Published: 03 Sep 2009 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| IT Governance \| IT Industry \| IT Management \| IT Services \| Project Management \| Project Portfolio Management

What Is Formal Project Management and Who Needs It? sponsored by Global Knowledge WHITE PAPER: This white paper will answer the question of whether or not these standards are necessary in project management by exploring what can happen in the absence of these regulations. Posted: 28 Aug 2009 \| Published: 28 Aug 2009 TOPICS: IT Management \| Manufacturing \| Portfolio Management (IT Management) \| Project Management \| Project Portfolio Management \| Regulatory Compliance

Earned Value Lite: Making Earned Value Management Work for Every Project sponsored by Oracle Corporation WHITE PAPER: Read this paper to learn how the implementation of 10 fundamental steps can help your organization reap the rewards of EVM and give you the visibility you need to complete your projects on time and within budget. Posted: 10 Aug 2009 \| Published: 10 Aug 2009 TOPICS: Budgeting \| Business Intelligence \| Business Process Modeling \| Metrics \| Project Management \| Work Breakdown Structure

The ROI of Data Governance: Seven Ways Your Data Governance Program Can Help You Save Money sponsored by DataFlux Corporation WHITE PAPER: The following paper outlines seven ways that data governance programs can help manage costs and presents a mechanism for quantifying the return on investment (ROI) for these contributions. Posted: 24 Jul 2009 \| Published: 24 Jul 2009 TOPICS: Compliance Best Practices \| Cost Benefit Analysis \| Data Governance \| Data Management \| Data Quality \| Data Stewardship \| Master Data Management \| Project Management \| ROI

Creating and managing value-driven product portfolios sponsored by IBM WHITE PAPER: The product portfolio decisions you make today will determine whether your company is relevant tomorrow. To increase the chances of marketing a successful product, organizations must deliver products and services to the consumers they value the most, and they must provide those deliverables when their consumers want them. Read on to learn more. Posted: 24 Jul 2009 \| Published: 24 Jul 2009 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Business Processes \| Portfolio Management (IT Management) \| Product Development \| Product Life Cycles \| Product Management \| Project Management \| Project Portfolio Management

The Agile Checklist sponsored by VersionOne Inc. WHITE PAPER: This paper presents a set of agile meeting and facilitation checklists that offer an easy framework to help guide software development teams through the various agile cycles. Read on to learn about the Agile Development Rhythms and start using the checklists presented herein to help get through the various agile cycles. Posted: 24 Jul 2009 \| Published: 24 Jul 2009 TOPICS: Agile Manufacturing \| Application Development \| Application Performance Management \| Document Management \| Project Management \| Software Development Life-Cycles \| Software Development Methodologies \| Software Development Tools \| Software Project Management \| Software Quality Assurance \| Software Testing

Applying Knowledge Management to Project Management sponsored by Global Knowledge WHITE PAPER: There is a growing, interdisciplinary field known as knowledge management that is dedicated to how we acquire, organize, manage, share, and utilize knowledge and information. This white paper will discuss what knowledge management is, why it is important, and how you can apply knowledge management to project management. Posted: 29 Jun 2009 \| Published: 29 Jun 2009 TOPICS: Collaboration \| Document Management \| Information Management \| Information Retrieval Software \| Knowledge Management \| Knowledge Management Software \| Project Management \| Project Management Software \| Web 2.0

How Manufacturers Can Use Project ERP to Weather Tough Times sponsored by IFS WHITE PAPER: This paper discusses how an organization can Survive poor economic conditions with strategic thinking and use of Project ERP by managing a downturn like a variance in a project. Posted: 19 Jun 2009 \| Published: 19 Jun 2009 TOPICS: Economic Environment \| ERP \| ERP Software \| Manufacturing \| Manufacturing Execution Systems \| Manufacturing Systems \| Project Management \| Project Management Software

The Agile Project Manager sponsored by VersionOne Inc. WHITE PAPER: This white paper will explore the impact agile development methodologies are having on the Project Management community, what new skills are required, and what the Project Manager can do to ease the transition. Posted: 08 Jun 2009 \| Published: 08 Jun 2009 TOPICS: Best Practices \| Collaboration \| Product Development \| Product Management \| Project Management \| Software Development Methodologies \| Software Project Management \| Strategic Planning

Maximizing the Value of Economic Stimulus Funds sponsored by SAP America Inc WHITE PAPER: The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) was a dramatic action designed to quickly stimulate an economic recovery in the United States. This SAP Executive Insight examines some of the major challenges agencies face with respect to this stimulus plan. It describes how governments can transform their organization to devote more resources.. Posted: 05 Jun 2009 \| Published: 05 Jun 2009 TOPICS: Collaboration \| Economic Environment \| Government Agencies (U.S.) \| Investments \| Project Management \| Regulatory Compliance \| ROI \| SAP (Product)

What Every IT Manager Needs To Know About Project Management sponsored by Global Knowledge WHITE PAPER: It is important for the IT Manager to know the basics of formalized project management. Why? Because every organization needs to be able to implement change and almost all important changes are defined or implemented through project teams. Posted: 27 May 2009 \| Published: 27 May 2009 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Business Management \| CIOs \| IT Management \| IT Managers \| Project Management \| Project Portfolio Management

Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) software solutions for green IT sponsored by IBM WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper will explore best practices for green IT and how Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) can help companies achieve green IT processes for software application management. Specifically, ALM solutions can help IT organizations reduce energy consumption and costs associated with multi-site software development. Posted: 14 May 2009 \| Published: 14 May 2009 TOPICS: Application Development \| Application Life-Cycle Management \| Business Intelligence \| Product Development \| Project Management \| Software Development Life-Cycles \| Software Testing \| Source Code Control

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PROJECT MANAGEMENT DEFINITION (continued): … The systems development life cycle (SDLC) is one example of a methodology for guiding the project management process from an initial feasibility study through maintenance of the completed application. Various SDLC approaches include the waterfall model, which was the original SDLC method; rapid application development (RAD); joint application development (JAD); the fountain model; the spiral model; build and fix; and synchronize-and-stabilize. A number of charting methods, such as the Gantt chart and PERT chart have been developed as tools to create a graphic representation of a project plan and …
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