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Article Quality Management, Benefits Realization, Information Technology 1 September 2002

Project Management Journal

Project management in the information systems and information technologies industries

By Hartman, Francis T. | Ashrafi, Rafi A. For many enterprises, sustainable success is closely linked to information systems (IS) and information technologies (IT). Despite significant efforts to improve software project success, many still…

Conference Paper Quality Management, Information Technology 14 July 2002

A software project management method

By Coronado, Sergio | Jaén, José Alberto Three studies on the development of software engineering practices conducted in the mid-nineties produced results that led to the conclusion that the software project success rate is very low, and…

Article Quality Management, Communications Management, Information Technology 1 April 2002

PM Network

Evolution of a project information system

By Bondale, Kiron D. The Avantis business unit of Invensys PLC's Software Systems Division formed a project management office to manage all marketing and support-sponsored projects, establish and control all project…

Article Quality Management, Stakeholder Engagement, Information Technology 1 March 2002

Project Management Journal

The importance of building a foundation for user involvement in information system projects

By Jiang, James J | Chen, Edward | Klein, Gary User involvement in the process of developing information systems has long been known to be a critical component of eventual success. This study examines the importance of building an acceptable…

Conference Paper Quality Management, Information Technology 1 November 2001

Seminars & Symposium

Quality management in a large-scale rollout project

By Beldi, Felix The project scope is:a) to replace 36'500 currently used desktop PCs with new technology systems (four standard hardware models) within a period of five month (approx. 400 systems/day).b) Standard…

Conference Paper Quality Management, Organizational Project Management, Stakeholder Engagement, Information Technology 7 September 2000

Seminars & Symposium

Front-end loading with facilitated joint application development techniques

By Viali, Walter A. Projects continue to fail at an alarming rate and the industry continues to do very little to aggressively change this trend. The models, techniques and tools for improving the way business is done…

Article Quality Management, Information Technology June 1999

PM Network

What factors are impacting IT's effectiveness?

By Kort, Rania IT projects are often seen as an impediment to business efficiency and have a tendency to come in late, over budget, and not up to business demands. Many organizations are ad hoc environments that…

Article Quality Management, Communications Management, Information Technology June 1998

Project Management Journal

The Internet as an enabler of the Bell Atlantic project office

By Scanlin, John Bell Atlantic uses Internet and intranet technology to obtain consistent, quality practices for the delivery of products and services in its project management practice.

Article Quality Management, Career Development, Information Technology May 1995

PM Network

The implementation coordinator

By Fallon, Howard The increasing complexity of information system projects has resulted in the specialization of tasks that were once the sole province of the project manager. The implementation coordinator is one…

Article Quality Management, Risk Management, Information Technology June 1994

Project Management Journal

Avoiding large-scale information systems project failure

By Martinez, Erwin V. Inattention to project management fundamental principles can lead to failure in a project.This is amplified in large-scale projects where it is more difficult to recover from mistakes.To avoid…