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Does your PPM solution help you understand the cost of IT operations or just your projects and portfolios? Technology Business Management is an emerging category of software solutions designed to help CIOs and IT executives manage and communicate the cost, quality and value of IT Services.

Based on extensive analysis of three competing earned value management methods, a new book summarizes the merits of each. Here, an EVM practitioner reviews “Measuring Time, Improving Project Performance Using Earned Value Management.”

Even if you have polished your ability to manage an IT project, you can be fingered as a scapegoat from a group working a parallel process. Learn how to avoid this frustration when partnering with the user performance managers.

Agile projects are optimized for different constraints than traditional ones. To truly understand how to design a performance measurement system for agile PM, we need to dig a little deeper into the value system underlying agile methods.

May 19-21 event in Boston will address ideas that help cut through the economic slump and present the PMO of the Year.

Need help with project recovery? A whole new skill set and strategy is needed to recover an IT project from free fall. Here we provide practical recovery pointers on four project areas for failing IT projects, with a focus on software development for business applications.

The Agile movement, which emerged from a need to rethink software development projects, has popularized a number of ideas that should be applied more broadly across the PM community. Many Agile principles complement “formal” methods such as earned value management, and can be readily implemented in traditional project environments.

As achievers, we all want to know how we’re progressing toward career goals, advancement and greater financial rewards. A simple career development matrix is a helpful tool to prepare for future success and put practical steps into action.

This two-part article will provide you with some insight into some of the most frustrating aspects that vendors experience when they attempt to decipher the hieroglyphics found in the proposal documents. The first part will focus on the content of the RFP.

Recent appointments, promotions, openings and awards in the world of project management.

Recent alliances, acquisitions and implementations in the world of project and portfolio management.

So you want a career in project management? What will it take to be successful, and what about earning potential? This article will explore the pursuit of a career in project management, including looks at characteristics of successful PMs, what employers are looking for and salaries.

Longtime earned value management practitioner Ray Stratton reviews a new book by Walter Lipke, the creator of earned schedule, a concept that extends EVM to help manage schedule performance.

Want to improve your project and program success rates? Work on the work environment first. An organizational psychologist explains why you need to care about employee wellness and how to get started.

BPM Forum study finds most IT professionals cite environmentally responsible operations as a priority but lack resources to control energy consumption needs.

It used to be that workers were simply beaten or intimidated to get them to perform. For some of us, this time continues, but for others the world has become more complex. We need an organizing principle for workforce management. Even though we are familiar with the traditional concepts of quality, cost, and time, these are merely measurements of some higher standard.

When developing or restructuring a project management office, there are several PMO types to consider, each with various levels of scope and influence based on their defined functions. In a new series, here’s a look at how PMOs can play key roles in areas ranging from governance and performance management, to risk and communication.

Largest independent provider of IT portfolio management solutions expects addition of strong earned value management offering will open new opportunities in the federal government and product development markets.

Focused on delivering business value early in the project lifecycle through timely communication and response to requirements, agile development is one of the fastest growing trends in technology. More than 1,100 people attended Agile 2006 last month to learn the latest in agile techniques. Here are some show highlights.

To maximize productivity and motivation, performance management systems must take into account the many employees whose participation in projects falls outside their functional job duties, and, thus, goes unnoticed and unrecognized come review time.

New benchmark study on project management offices shows consistent, two-year trend in delivering quantifiable value, with upwards of $400,000 in savings per project.

How mature is your organization, and how mature does it need to be? There are many ways to define maturity. Here is an overview of the major maturity models and how they might relate to the projects, programs and portfolios that you're working with.