There are many aspects to the successful integration of acquired companies. This paper suggests considerations and approaches to establishing the stakeholder connections. The optimal situation is for the project manager to be part of the main acquisition integration team; this article focuses on this scenario, with a separate set of suggestions for other scenarios.
Cyber breaches have become all too common--and the negative impact of these events is significant. Are you taking a project management approach to ensure a timely and well-executed response to address the numerous complex issues that accompany a breach?
The SOW is the project roadmap. A well-designed SOW can make a project a success, whereas a poorly designed SOW can result in the labeling of a project as a failure, no matter how successfully the work was completed. This article provides an introduction to the concept, a look at the various manifestations of the SOW, its place in the PMBOK® Guide, and a detailed overview of its components.
Transitions can be difficult when management and stakeholders change--something that happens on a regular basis in the government. Some basic guidelines can keep the project on track.
Virtual teams have special communication obstacles that are not necessarily solved elegantly by the communication tools available in your project. You must combine multiple applications to create an infrastructure to meet the needs of virtual teams to interact and to complete project deliverables.
To look into the future--more often than not--you must first look back. But if we are to do that and look ahead to envision what the future of project management might look like 10, 20 or even 100 years from now, looking at how the past envisioned the future may help point us in the right direction and show us where that journey into the future is headed. So what did the future look like, in the past?
There’s more to vendor management than deliverables and deadlines. Let's look at a few basic concepts that will help PMs avoid some of the biggest pitfalls.
An IT risk assessment is intended to help IT management better allocate resources and perform capital budgeting and assign resources based on a risk-based approach. Various regulatory authorities require risk assessments be performed for all financial institutions. This article goes over what can go wrong while planning and executing an IT risk assessment.
Most small business owners feel they do not have the time, energy, or resources to properly implement project management processes; however, it is exactly because of this lack of resources that entrepreneurs need to implement project management methodologies. The author identifies six key steps that entrepreneurs can take to help identify, analyze, and actively engage their true goals and objectives and achieve success.
Following ethics standards and maintaining an ethical workplace culture makes perfect business sense. The author outlines the steps toward establishing corporate ethics and why instilling and maintaining a strong code of ethics in workplace culture is a long-term investment.
Does the "doctor-patient" privilege apply in the world of the Program Management Office? To which of your customers do you owe the greatest loyalty?
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