Category: Significant Articles
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How do you ensure all deliverables are released and delivered for each process/activity; ensuring accountability for each deliverable when other individuals have responsibility to prepare/author the documentation?
Project Close Out – Project Deliverables and the Close Out Letter A restatement from Project Management Lessons Learned. Conducting project close out: Ensure that (not limited to or in a particular order): A project close out meeting is conducted with the customer/client to define that all close out criteria have been satisfied (financial included) Any…
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Concerns as a consultant.
The other day two consultants, a developer and network engineer, made the following statements. “Cost cutting has consultants concerned about their current assignments because when an evaluation is conducted they will be cut before an employee. That is understood. We understand it’s a business and company/organization decision.” They thought that they were about to be…
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Do Project and Program Managers have different responsibilities?
Understand there is a difference between a Program Manager and Project Manager (and a project(s) is a part of a program). The “Tip” is not to let someone tell you there is not a difference (Maybe you can’t stop them from telling you but don’t believe there is not a difference.) There is a career…
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Technology Project Challenges… Continued
Skill Set Requirements – Not Just Being Certified Resource requirements for a project or program have become a day-to-day challenge. RayAnn identified the challenge of resource availability in a previous information source, at the same time you have to ensure that the resource is the “right fit”; has the appropriate skill set. At one time,…
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Unclear Development Processes and Methodologies
There are many methodologies for IT development and implementation projects (hundreds, because many companies have their own “flavor” of a methodology or two, and maybe several) but they all should have/contain basic processes/activities: feasibility/initiation; planning; requirements analysis; design (Architecture/Detail Design); implementation/construction/build/test (unit, integration, functional\\(capability/qualification; system test (stress, functional, performance, volume, etc.); user acceptance test; operational…
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Is Recovery just Ahead?
During these difficult times after 9/11, corporations\’ unethical practices, businesses\’ financial difficulties, mergers, and the dreaded layoffs that followed, hopefully, the road to recovery is just ahead. The national and international impact has been overwhelming to not only many businesses but to our communities. RayAnn Enterprise Publishers was established to have an impact by providing…
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“The process to find another job has taken longer than I anticipated. I have almost terminated or stopped my search efforts.”
We have all been there before but when you go through it, it becomes a very personal thing. One thing I do know, you can’t give up on your search activities. Your positive efforts, no matter when or how long it takes through these times, will prepare you to take that next positive step forward.…
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What positions (opportunities) are there within the industry since the emphasis on e-commerce, e-business, and web development?
There are still opportunities. The impact that e-technology has had on the IT or other industries (e.g., Healthcare, Pharmaceutical, Financial Services, Media, Electronic Components, Insurance, Telecommunications, and Manufacturing) and Academia (Colleges/Universities), has created and expanded businesses and business opportunities. Some of the many positions in data processing, information systems, or Information technology (IT) are listed…
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Extreme Programming – Built from the past.
Some in the commercial IT industry, don’t seem to understand (or have not learned) how important the entire development process is to completing successful projects or programs. It’s not just moving quickly, so fast, into implementation because of pressure from the customer and sometimes your own company. Even rapid development and the iterative development process…
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Software Development Best (and Good) Practices: What “best practice” processes do you think are required for IT development projects?
Best Practice Processes (BPPs) must continue to be estabished and improved for the software development process. and for the successful projects and programs. The best practice processes are identified below. Several organizations with standards that support these processes are listed. Best Practice Processes: 1. Program/Project Management (and Business Management) (Integration) Use of Experience and Knowledge (Integration)…
