Is anyone at a company where the Buisness PMO's business project managers manage IT Application projects? The IT teams have a Lead who manages each individual team's part of the project, including application development, DBA support, hardware and network support, etc, but the leads are at the direction of the Business PM. The IT Project managers only manage Infrastructure projects. If you have known of such a model, did it work?
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Greg SalyersProject Manager| WhataburgerSan Antonio, Tx, United States
I have seen that work on a very large scale, the difference was that Business PM's ran the project and an IT pm was assigned to coordinate the IT activities. Saving Changes...
Kirsty BentleyProject ManagerPoint Cook, Victoria, Australia
I currently work in a medium sized financial services company in Australia and as a Project Manager I am responsible for implementing projects with both business and IT involvement. IT Analyst Programmers report directly to the Project Manager for project related work and are heavily supported for technical risk and issue resolution by the IT Team Leader. Business Analysts write both BRS and Functional Specification documentation as they have both business and system knowledge. This has worked well for this organisation and enabled the company to successfully deliver small to medium sized projects (which are large for this company). Saving Changes...
Samara RichardsonProgram Manager| Social Security AdministrationOwings Mills, Md, United States
I lead the Operations PMO for a major IT initiative. We write general business requirements and use case scenarios for specific functions. The initiative includes multiple web apps that interface, and are integrated, with CICS and COBOL. It's messy. At the same time, because of the differences in development lifecycles, I'm working with the Systems PMO to develop a new lifecycle and associated roles, artifacts, etc. Like I said, very messy. With multiple phases of projects moving forward concurrently (e.g. Implementation for Ph. I, Dev for Ph. II and P&A for Ph. III) it's incredibly challenging and we're tapped for SMEs. The Systems PM and I are the drivers and essentially operate as one. Saving Changes...
Andrew MakarProgram Manager| AMAKAR LLCOakland Township, Mi, United States
One of my most successful programs involved running a program where the business took the lead on both business and IT initiatives. The business have skilled managers who understood IT and it was very easy for the IT PMs to coordinate with the business team.
The main benefit was the cohesive decision making. The business understood the program's tactical goals in addition to the strategic goals. They understood why a website would go down when the ethernet cable in the data center wasn't connected properly to the router. They also understood the importance of defining and tracking against a schedule.
I'd welcome the chance to deploy in a similar environment again.
All too often the wall between Business and IT can be too high to climb successfully. It shouldn't be that way.
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Andy Makar
Have you seen Tactical PM's MS Project tutorial #1 Schedule Development technique or the MS Project tutorial #3 Project Status Report Analyzer technique?
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