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Nov
Improving Delivery Through Empowerment: 4 Steps to Empower an Agile Team
Your company is moving to Agile from waterfall, and you want to ensure a smooth transformation that keeps projects healthy. As a scrum master working...
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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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Nov
A Maturity Model for Vendor Relationships: You Can’t Marry All of Them
Vendor management is an internal IT function that often has room for improvement. A maturity model is a helpful tool for evaluating the state of...
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Oct
The Cost of Quality
Every organization thinks about the quality of the goods and services they produce. After all, their name is on the line. Not all companies, however,...
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Oct
Improving Data Quality: The 3 Core Functions of a Data Cleanse
In previous posts, we established that data needs to be clean in order for organizations to make sound decisions, and we introduced a 5-part framework...
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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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Oct
IT Professionals Should Watch Their Language
When someone’s job description is “firefighter,” you know exactly how they can help you. If your house is on fire, they will put it out....
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Sep
Becoming a Data-Driven Organization: A 5-Part Framework for Sustainable Data Quality
In a previous post, we’ve established that data needs to be clean in order for organizations to make sound decisions, gain a competitive advantage, and...
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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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Sep
Data Is to Business as Water Is to Life
It goes without saying that data is critical to make strategic decisions, to run operations, and to perform business functions. Healthcare companies derive analytics from...
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Sep
PM Pointers: Managing a Team Member with a Personal Agenda
Part 4 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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Aug
The 4 Most Important Skills for an IT Project Manager
The title of Project Manager (PM) assumes a specific set of skills. While PMs certainly qualify as leaders, and the best possess the same qualities that...
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