This presentation has been designed to proactively reduce ineffective supervisory actions that have been identified as critical to employee satisfaction and workforce performance. It clarifies the role of the supervisor in implementing effective strategies to handle employee performance and behavior problems, both major and minor. If supervisory competency in these areas is inadequate, this presentation can be delivered in the Activation Phase of the project.
Implementing a custom application requires a comprehensive strategy. This guide will aid you in developing and administering that strategy.
How robust and ready for launch is your project? Rate your own project on many success-indicator details in important areas using this extensive questionnaire. The results should help you discover your project's maturity level in terms of probabilities for success and where adjustments should be made.
Information strategy planning is a useful approach to take if your business needs reevaluation and realignment with the current market and industry demands. Here's a high-level Microsoft Project plan for tackling the development of an information management strategy for your overall business.
Strategy is a fancy word that really is all about the struggle for business advantage. Here's how to play to win.
While the concepts of strategy, portfolio and project are often discussed, the relationship of strategy to project and of portfolio to either concept seems to play out differently in reality than it does on paper.
You'll need a strategy to define how, when, where and what pieces of the new application will be released to the organization.
Does your project involve building an automated system based on individual business areas that are designed and implemented separately? Here's an example of a planning strategy for integrating business areas into a single system.
You already know the benefits of creating an Intranet. Justify it with a solid business strategy plan.
Success in convincing executive leadership to spend money on project management is difficult, unless a sophisticated "sales relationship" is developed. The steps in this template are designed to show project managers how to develop and cultivate such a sales relationship to upper management.
All strategy identification initiatives should include the process of developing a balanced scorecard. The scorecard should be leveraged for the continuing evaluation and evolution of an e-commerce strategy. As the business strategy changes, the list of metrics should also be considered for revision in order to ensure compliance with strategic direction. Here's a template to get your scorecard in order.
What does the future of PM have in store? Three trends have the potential of being very powerful for project management and the organizations that continue to pursue the discipline.
The key challenge to organizational PM is that companies tend to view projects in isolation by ignoring the obvious (and sometimes not-so-obvious) linkages. Here we present a list of essential factors to ensure the organization can begin to not just benefit from the discipline of project management, but be able to maximize the benefits that organizational PM can provide.
What is maturity? Can an organization be considered mature if it does the wrong things well? What if it does the right things in the wrong way? The OPM3 business standard helps organizations become more mature. But misperceptions still exist about what “maturity” means. This issue is not explained in the standard itself and has never been written about by anyone, so what better place to do so than here and now?
Your project workforce can be better motivated and more effective if it is aligned with the overall business goals of your organization. Use this template as part of your employee motivation and retention strategy and see how quickly performance improves.
From Gartner PPM Summit
For years CIOs have listed business-IT alignment as one of the top goals. The problem is that the PMO is often caught in the middle with a high level strategy on the one hand and dozens if not hundreds of detailed projects on the other. This workshop will offer some practical techniques and approaches to help bridge the gap.
The fostering of any successful relationship requires us to see the world, issues, concerns and needs through the lens of the other person. Additionally, you need to factor the person’s influence, position and attitude toward you into your assessment of how to cultivate and manage the relationship. This holds true for SRM as well--and purposely taking these elements of the relationship into account when designing your communications plan will only add to your success.
This document outlines the strategy for deploying a standard systems development methodology and its supporting tools to IT project teams. It is a framework for ensuring that the project team understands, applies and measures the effectiveness of the methodology.
This document will help you assess and address the workforce needs of your business unit or organization now and for years into the future.
Globally dispersed teams and stakeholders present daunting challenges to project, program and portfolio leaders. It is imperative that organizations develop a formal communication strategy that addresses distance, language, culture and access to information. In this undertaking, “the cloud” is a friend.
Before you begin a project, take a look at how it fits in with your organization's business goals and overall strategy. This straightforward form will help you gather your thoughts and information in one place for easy reference and evaluation.
Gartner vice president and distinguished analyst Kraft Bell discusses how to take a strategy-aligned approach to enterprise change and overcome some of the constraints faced by organizations in these turbulent times.
What you do during your first 30 days as CIO will most likely determine your future success. The strategy you deploy is critical and will vary greatly with the circumstances you are inheriting. Here's part two of our examination of possible success strategies, which involves assessing various aspects of the IT organization.
Deploying an application solution package in a banking environment is complicated and challenging. This Microsoft Project plan based on a real project shows you how.
Use this strategic plan to assess your enterprise's value streams and its readiness for change to center operations around those value streams. This retail example can be adapted to any business interested in doing a change assessment project.
If you need a quick Application Selection Project, this plan is for you. Strategy, vendor evaluation and value streams are integrated with selecting the right package.
Your client is ready to go online, so you need to be ready to make his Internet endeavors worthwhile. Here's a plan to define and use a solid Internet Business Strategy to make sure your client is getting the most out of his new Web presence.
Improved deliverable! The new CIS system isn't ready for prime time until business users have tested it. This plan provides guidance on the how, who, when, where, why and what of acceptance testing.
Need to plan a data warehouse project? This synopsis outlines the steps, deliverables and team roles for strategizing, architecting, designing and planning the implementation of a data warehouse.
Are your projects in line with your company's objectives? Use this flow diagram as a reality check. Look before you launch!
Pilot projects are golden opportunities for testing, growing and learning about your business. This presentation captures the fundamentals.
You know that your proposed project solution is the right one for your client. Now, how exactly do you convince the client of that? This form will help you state your case.
Harassment can take many forms. Use this analysis to help simplify your preparation for consistently enforcing your corporate policy.
This Project Priority Worksheet helps bring order to information system projects.
First, you must understand want you want to be as a company, and why your customers come to you. Then link your organization’s goals and priorities with those customer goals. Steven Rodin, chief executive officer of Storagepipe, explains what strategic focus means to him, and how he balances it with innovation.
Why are project managers afraid to stop projects? So often after being assigned to a project, project managers try to run before they walk. This is especially common when the project is already in progress. You can quickly get caught up in the momentum of work and forget to question whether the work is justified. If this is truly the case, shouldn’t more projects be stopped? What if it means losing your job?
From Gartner PPM Summit 2007
This keynote presentation by Kraft Bell, Vice President and Distinguished Analyst, addresses how a strategy-aligned approach to enterprise change can overcome the typical contraints on those endeavors.
Every job hunter fumbles parts of the tedious job-landing process, but one expert notes that four mistakes can add months to an already frustrating pursuit.
Need a large-scale application package and don't know where to start to pick one? This Microsoft Project plan details how to evaluate qualified vendors and packages, then guides you through the process of selecting an application package for implementation.
Get your next CRM implementation off on the right track with this extensive project plan.
Need help developing an IT strategic plan for an organization? Look no further than this project plan.
Use this plan to cover the details of your migration to a hosted service.
Need to sell your business case to executive management? They will want to see the bottom line, which includes the benefits stated in quantifiable terms of value to the organization. Don't be vague. Quantify those benefits, as this example illustrates!
IT system storage is a major part of your e-business strategy. How do you keep track of how much space you are using for production, testing and development, and how much you'll have left for future projects? Start with this matrix.
Use this document to clarify and confirm the mandate for the development of a Project Management Office.
This is the grandmother of all balanced scorecard templates! Here are 18 (count 'em, 18!) Excel templates that will help you develop a balanced score card from start to finish.
This sample of actual Premium and Corporate content is available for FREE download through April 17, 2009.
Every project has stakeholders. Your job is to get to know the ones who will be crucial to your project. This analysis worksheet will help you get a feel for what to expect from various key parties who have an interest in your project.
This Testing Tools Evaluation Form details a complete description of the expected level of service and performance to be provided by prospective testing tools.
You've read the paper and seen enough television reports to make you wonder if workplace violence could happen to you. This template is designed to help you identify whether your immediate area is following best practices to minimize risk from workplace violence. Answers of No or Don't Know point to potential areas of concern.
The most logical and accessible place to manage your corporate knowledge repository is on your company's intranet. This comprehensive Powerpoint presentation covers a user development strategy for this very purpose.
