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Mar
Conquering the UAT Process: Before, During & After
User Acceptance Testing can be a daunting and frustrating experience. Too often, the exercise becomes an ordeal of tight deadlines, stress, and system issues. While...
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Mar
Who Cares About Your IT Initiative?
Sure, we all want our IT initiatives to succeed. We regularly evaluate our projects, in-flight or upon completion, looking for tangible lessons to learn. We...
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Feb
PM Pointers: 3 Ways to Maximize Success with Inter-Team Dependencies
Managing an IT project often requires working with resources across other teams—not just those fully allocated to your initiative. Supporting resources and teams can be...
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Feb
The Fallacy of Multi-Project Resource Allocation
Organizations tend to divide the same resources over multiple, simultaneous projects and still expect the same level of productivity as if each person were dedicated...
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Feb
Executive Field Guide: IT Governance
There are dozens of definitions for “IT governance” out there. They use words like efficiency, effectiveness, alignment, control, and strategy—which are all valid terms. But...
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Jan
Finding the Right Champion for Change
Change is HARD. As a matter of fact, I often say “technology is easy, but people are hard.” You can guess the reaction I get...
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Jan
The Value of a Communication Plan for IT Initiatives
Communication plans for an IT project might come off as overkill, or even remind you of a nagging parent’s chore chart. In fact, the two...
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Dec
The 3 Lists that Control the Success of Every IT Project
Preface: In a perfect world, key elements like project requirements and execution steps would be issued by a product owner or PM. But the real...
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Dec
Year-End Round-Up: The Top 10 Posts of 2017
Of all the posts published in 2017 on the Abraic blog, here were the 10 most popular:
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Nov
When New Technology Causes Productivity to Plummet
Technology is expected to enhance productivity Most business cases for technology investments include “productivity gains.” Even when no formal business case is created or communicated,...
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Oct
How to Prioritize IT Initiatives Without Losing Friends: 5 Success Factors
A Black-and-White Prioritization Process: Quick and Uncomplicated First, a common definition of success: IT initiative prioritization is a mechanism to calendarize and budgetize investments in...
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Sep
PM Pointers: Managing Superstars
Part 5 in our 5-part Managing Needy Team Members series. As project managers, we often run into team members that require a great deal of attention....
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