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Requirements Challenges
What is a requirement? The American Heritage Dictionary defines a requirement as “Something that is required; a necessity”. PMI defines…
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Are you wasting your IT Application Support budget?
The concept of Lean is based on eliminating waste from a process. Application Maintenance and Support is one of the…
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Effective Software Development
Why do projects miss their deadlines and exceed their budgets? Are we poor planners or are we poor managers? One…
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Lean IT
Lean IT – Introduction
Introduction This Blog will contain a series of articles that will provide tips, techniques, and strategies for improving the effectiveness…
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Lean Project Management
“Lean” principles focus on the elimination of waste from a process. How do we apply lean principles to improve project…
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Characteristics of an Effective IT Organization
How effective is your IT organization? How do you know? Do your business sponsors agree? Determining effectiveness, like quality, can…
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Lean Project Management
What Do Project Managers Manage?
Project managers believe they are managing a project. What are they really managing?
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Lean Project Management
Estimating Projects and Meeting the Estimates
How do we develop meaningful estimates and then manage projects to ensure that we meet the estimates? Accurate estimating is…
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Lean IT
Lean Efforts Serve Up Big Benefits for IT Leaders
Lean has long since stopped being a process just for use at Toyota. Organizations are now getting lean in various…
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Lean IT
Why Lean Methodology Fails: All Planning and No Execution
Generally speaking, planning is a good thing. It shows thoughtfulness and a desire to succeed. But when it comes to…