Note

The primary mission of the infrastructure professional is deployment and maintenance of platforms that enable applications and services. Evaluate how these hot developments can boost achievement in that critical role.

Case Study

The rise in usage of mobile devices means that enterprise business is no longer being conducted only within the confines of the physical building. Factor in personal device usage by employees and you've got the potential for security breaches...

Case Study

As companies grow, consolidation of resources is inevitable, particularly with the growing movement towards virtualization. If you are maintaining a legacy platform, it may be time to consider a consolidation-in-a-box solution.

Solution Set

The primary mission of the infrastructure professional is deployment and maintenance of platforms that enable applications and services. Evaluate how these hot developments can boost achievement in that critical role.

Tool

Use this tool to generate a customized shortlist of enterprise PPM vendors based on the importance your organization places on product features and vendor attributes.

Note

Enterprise Project Portfolio Management (PPM) goes beyond charts and reports to help integrate and streamline processes around entire program lifecycles.

Solution Set

Enterprise Project Portfolio Management (PPM) goes beyond charts and reports to help integrate and streamline processes around entire program lifecycles.

Note

Mid-Market Project Portfolio Management (PPM) goes beyond planning to support the work that's really getting done. It drives adoption and accountability from the bottom up.

Solution Set

Understand today's Mid-Market PPM market, where it's going, and what its leading vendors are doing.

Tool

Use this tool to generate a customized shortlist of mid-market PPM vendors based on the importance your organization places on product features and vendor attributes.

Template/Policy

This template provides a guideline for agenda planning of steering committee meetings. It outlines how long certain agenda items should take, as well as what should be covered in the meeting to get the most out of the discussion.

Note

Effective decision-making is critical to the governance of IT investments, projects, service delivery, and risk, all of which keep the business in business.

Solution Set

This research will enable IT Leaders to get the executive support needed to adopt IT governance with the objective of improving performance measures, accountabilities, and decision-making in the areas of IT financial management, risk management,...

Tool

Issue management is a practical necessity for IT projects. A key element in effectively handling issues is the tracking of issues that arise during a project. Use the Project Issue Log tool to ensure issues don't cause a project derailment.

Note

Cloud computing will significantly impact the roles of infrastructure professionals and internal infrastructure processes. Taking ownership of the cloud and internal Infrastructure-as-a-Service is integral to proactively prepare and implement...

Note

Many organizations initiate application consolidation projects with an ambitious outlook, only to have them abort or fail because they didn't assess the feasibility of consolidating the particular applications.

Solution Set

Collaboration platforms, like Microsoft SharePoint, can require as much IT resources to implement and operate as applications like e-mail, but collaboration implementation projects are often understaffed.

Note

Managing IT's portfolio of projects doesn't have to be a constant headache. Setting realistic goals, evaluating the organization's process capabilities, and selecting the appropriate tools will improve your chances of managing the portfolio...

Solution Set

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...

Video

Managing the IT project portfolio can be an exercise in frustration for organizations that haven't aligned their goals, processes, and tools. When leaders review their IT investments with aged or incomplete data, they're making decisions on gut...

Tool

The Project Portfolio Management Strategy Development tool compares an organization's goals, process capabilities, and tools to assess their potential PPM maturity and assist in the development of an effective PPM strategy.

Template/Policy

Reviewing the application portfolio and evaluating options for consolidation is a comprehensive and detailed process involving various stakeholders and complex procedures. Initial planning for the project is critical to its success.

Tool

The Applications Review Work Plan Costing Tool allows IT leaders to forecast in detail the staffing and resource costing logistics for the application review project team prior to a consolidation initiative.

Note

Development leaders are jumping on the Agile bandwagon in droves based on the promise of success, shorter timelines, higher productivity, and greater client satisfaction; but are they really getting everything that has been promised?

Tool

The IT Leadership Time Benchmarking Tool allows IT leaders to compare their time allocation to that of the most effective IT leaders and suggests changes to make them more effective.

Note

IT leaders must focus on strategy and leadership activities, and avoid spending time on most vendor management activities, managing projects, and work their employees could be doing.

Solution Set

IT leaders have been told by the media, vendors, and analyst community that their role is changing from technology leader to technology strategist, from producer to enabler.

Video

IT leaders feel the pressure to spend more time leading and less time on the details. However, with limited budgets, obsolete technologies, a looming shortage of skills, and a rapidly growing backlog of unmet business requirements, it's easy to...

Tool

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) projects involve a variety of different steps. Info-this tool enables users to assign resources and track the completion status of a variety of different, mission critical tasks.

Tool

One of the first steps in preparing for global data center integration is to gather a list of all inventories. A comprehensive inventory of applications and infrastructure at all global data centers is essential to determining what needs to be...