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IT Governance: Definitions, Frameworks and Planning

ProjectManager.com

IT governance ensures that IT departments are prepared for what’s next, without losing focus on what matters. What is IT Governance? At its base level, IT governance is one or multiple processes that enable the IT staff to better manage risk and operate at its most efficient to the benefit of the organization on the whole.

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How to do Rolling Wave Planning

Rebel’s Guide to PM

The APM Planning, Scheduling, Monitoring and Control Guide (2015) defines rolling wave planning as ‘the planning density that is achieved at different moments in time. A rolling wave plan starts with knowing the major milestones or governance points. How to create a rolling wave plan. Finally, include the long-range tasks.

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Managing Multiple Projects: Statistics

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Respondents could select several) Communication was closely followed by: Planning/scheduling (84%) Stakeholder engagement (62%) Team management (53%) Resource management (50%) and more on that below Leadership (49%) Risk management (39%) Governance came in last at only 31%.

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PRINCE2 and PMBOK: How They Compare

Rebel’s Guide to PM

First came PRINCE in 1989 as the UK government standard for IT project management. There are other differences: the PMBOK® Guide usefully covers procurement, whereas PRINCE2 assumes you are operating in an environment constrained by a contract, because of its roots in government IT projects. Are there eligibility requirements?

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Project Budgeting: An Interview with Sol Benady

Rebel’s Guide to PM

In 2015 he moved into banking and spent time working on, amongst other things, Brexit plans for the bank. Setting up a plan to regularly discuss the budget takes the mystery away, “It’s important to have a governance framework with monthly checkpoints and a monthly meeting. Asking for More Money.

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The Social Project Manager [Interview]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

This interview was first published in 2015. How do you balance the need to collaborate with the governance and control that’s required in a project environment? How can you use social practices to mitigate the requirements and constraints for governance? And what is a social project manager?

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From Laying the Foundation to Completion: The Basics and Challenges of Project Management in Construction

Inloox

A study from Oxford in 2015 fundamentally addressed the question of why major projects fail. Especially in the case of government-financed large-scale projects, the pressure from outside is enormous. Yet these are not isolated cases. Here, too, the scientists' findings are clear. The decisive mistake lies at the beginning.