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IT is often placed between a rock and a hard place when pressured by the business to force new projects through the pipeline. Business leaders just want to know when their projects can start and when they will be completed, leaving it up to IT...

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The role of the Vendor Portfolio Manager is pivotal in the IT department's interactions with suppliers of services, hardware, and software. The portfolio manager provides product and service purchasing guidance for the entire IT department.

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Email has become an essential service within the IT portfolio. To date, however, there has been a dearth of benchmarks for determining where to target your total monthly spend per user. This videocast will provide guidance for how to optimize...

Many IT and business leaders have difficulty correctly defining the scope of Project Management. Others confuse Enterprise Portfolio Management and Project Portfolio Management with one another, and with good reason: even vendors blur the lines...

It is necessary for organizations to efficiently track and manage company-wide IT projects: ad-hoc project management (PM) is the way of the past. Determine enterprise need and then take the essential steps to implementing a successful...

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Portfolio monitoring is a management level process for managing the successful delivery of projects across the organization. Since managers are not part of the day-to-day operations of projects, it is important for them to stay informed of...

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Whether it's planned, routine, or emergency-related, the constant change involved in application maintenance must be managed in order to minimize possible downtime and maximize maintenance efforts without overrunning the maintenance budget.

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The first task in developing an Application Strategy is to identify weaknesses and gaps in the current set of applications in terms of achieving strategic objectives of the company. The health of current applications and their ability to support...

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Many enterprises find themselves having to streamline a very large IT applications portfolio because of application redundancy, application aging, and unnecessary complexity. Use a three-phase approach to application retirement to put the right...

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The Web Developer's role is to build the operations end of the organization's Web sites and keep them running smoothly. This includes designing, building, and implementing new Web pages and sites; integrating sites with back end applications;...

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In order to carry out effective project portfolio management, IT managers must learn to embrace risk analysis. Selecting more promising initiatives and plan for threats in advance using this tool.

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The Multimedia Developer's role is to provide media development services for projects, products, and applications across the enterprise. This includes designing, building, and implementing new multimedia pages, graphics, and CD-ROMs; integrating...

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The eBusiness Specialist's role is to coordinate, direct, and integrate the company's e-commerce Web sites, services, and applications for the purpose of smooth business-to-business and business-to-customer transactions. This includes the...