project management

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• Calm in the eye of the storm – dealing with project issues

  By Gary Hamilton, Gareth Byatt and Jeff Hodgkinson | 24 May, 2012 09:20

  How to deal with the difficult situations on projects.

• Tech guns for hire: 5 places to find skilled IT contractors

  By Logan Kugler | 22 May, 2012 20:08

  Even for organizations with a stellar full-time IT staff, situations often arise where temporary outside help is needed. A big Web project might demand a few extra programmers to meet a tough deadline, for example, or a rollout of tools to support a sales force bent on capturing a broader market may require expertise not available in-house.

• Edgy Communication

  By Paul Glen | 22 May, 2012 00:37

  We techies need to take the edge off once in a while.

• The Grill: TASC CIO Barbie Bigelow

  By Robert L. Mitchell | 21 May, 2012 20:11

  After spinning off from Northrop Grumman in 2009, TASC had one year to establish itself as an independent company. That meant the 6,000-employee systems engineering operation needed to deploy a new IT infrastructure. In overseeing that effort, TASC CIO Barbie Bigelow built an IT organization and infrastructure from scratch. Her team spent about eight months working with 64 vendors and partners to design and build an operation that included a new ERP system, more than 4,000 computers, 800 mobile devices, 400 network devices and 134 data circuits across 60 facilities -- and they did it in six weeks. Here, Bigelow discusses the failures and successes that the team experienced as they pursued the aggressive schedule, and she reflects on how TASC's IT unit has evolved.

• Q&A: CSC CTIO, Bob Hayward

  By Tim Lohman | 17 May, 2012 11:33

  CSC’s chief technology information officer, Bob Hayward, talks mobility, BYOD, virtual desktops, enterprise app stores and project management.

• Career advice: Careers in the cloud

  By Allan Hackney | 08 May, 2012 01:45

  Allan Hackney of John Hancock Financial Services Ask a Premier 100 IT Leader Allan Hackney Title: Senior vice president and CIOCompany: John Hancock Financial Services

• Turning Long Demands Into a Short List

  By Beth Stackpole | 07 May, 2012 23:36

  As the top IT executive at Aspen Skiing for the past 16 years, Paul Major has become skilled at keeping multiple balls in the air.

• Citrix buys Podio for social collaboration, project management software

  By Chris Kanaracus | 11 April, 2012 23:46

  Citrix said Wednesday it has acquired Podio, maker of a cloud-based software platform for project management and collaboration. Terms were not disclosed.

• Were the Three Stooges really good project managers?

  By Gary Hamilton, Gareth Byatt and Jeff Hodgkinson with Eric Lamond | 11 April, 2012 14:31

  Looking back at their 50-year history from a project management perspective.

• How to avoid the perils of virtualization and Cloud stall

  By Thor Olavsrud | 11 April, 2012 01:58

  Technologies like virtualization and cloud computing promise enormous leaps in efficiency and flexibility, but they can lead organizations into a quagmire if they don't plan properly for the transition, says Bill Hurley, CIO, CTO and executive vice president of Westcon Group. Without proper planning, organizations can stall in the midst of their transitions to virtualized environments or the cloud, finding themselves with a bundle of sunk costs and no path forward.

• Should project managers be professionally licensed or chartered?

  By Gary Hamilton, Gareth Byatt and Jeff Hodgkinson | 30 March, 2012 10:30

  One of our goals when writing articles is to create awareness about the thinking within the global project management community. One subject in particular that we have been considering for a while (since July 2010) is the case and discussion in the community for being ‘professionally licensed’ as a project manager. In this article, we present our research and perspectives on the subject.

• What IT managers say to get the CIO's OK

  By Patrick Thibodeau | 23 March, 2012 21:38

  LAS VEGAS -- When data center and facility managers meet with the CIO about new equipment, the conversations are rarely easy. The equipment they seek is often expensive, in the six- or seven-figure range, and justifying the expense can be challenging.

• Governance at the speed of change

  By Raju Pusapati | 23 March, 2012 07:25

  In the time it takes you to read this sentence, millions of payment transactions will have occurred.

• FinancialForce.com rolls out enhanced accounting, services applications

  By Chris Kanaracus | 08 March, 2012 03:08

  FinancialForce.com announced a string of enhancements to its cloud-based applications for accounting and professional services automation on Wednesday, heating up its rivalry with the likes of NetSuite and its OpenAir division.

• Is your Cloud project ready to be agile?

  By David Taber | 22 February, 2012 03:39

  In the decade since the Agile Manifesto, the movement has encouraged a number of best practices like test-driven development, user-centered design, iIterative development, clean code, refactoring, continuous integration, and-arguably-cloud computing.