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Planning and Controlling Project White Paper

white paper

How to plan and control a project in seven easy pages.

PMI's Pulse of the Profession: The High Cost of Low Performance 2014

white paper

by Project Management Institute

Organizations today face a chasm between what they should be doing--aligning projects to their strategy--and what they are able to accomplish. As a result, 44 percent of strategic initiatives are unsuccessful. PMI’s 2014 Pulse of the Profession, its annual global research, examines the impact of the implementation of project, program and portfolio management. This report demonstrates that in order to remain competitive, organizations must place a strategic focus on people, processes and outcomes. And the time to act is now.

Practical Tactics for Agile IT Release Management

white paper

by David W. Larsen

This case study explains how an IT organization delivered a release management process and results that exceeded its management’s expectations--and provided a foundation for continued success.

Process to Product: Creating Tools for Knowledge Management

white paper

by Charles Jackson

This is a thorough, scholarly discussion of the technical aspects of general and specific technology issues as they relate to the development of electronic knowledge management tools.

Project Complexity Heats Up

white paper

An increasingly complex workforce with international locations and telecommuting employees calls for more complex project plans and management tools. Read why PlanView is becoming the logical tool choice for the increasingly complicated world of project management.

Project Management and Its Influence on Traditional Management Methodology

white paper

by Preston Rich

Learn how project management has changed the traditional management schools of thought and delivery.

Project Management Software and Solutions

white paper

by Katherine E. Burnam; Melody A. Candia; and Dr. Matthew D. Gonzalez, PMP

A good project management software package should be cross-functional throughout an organization and have the ability to provide the users with the necessary tools to accomplish their given tasks. This white paper explores two options for two audiences.

Project Portfolio Management: Get a Grip (Again)

white paper

by Gartner Research

A lack of practices, tools and information to facilitate near-real-time control can frustrate project portfolio management. "Dashboard" processes enable IS organizations to deliver information tools for business processes in near real time.

Project Scope Management Table

white paper

This table includes topics dealing with some of the most important areas of project management, requirements definition and scope control, as well as the time-honored work breakdown structure.