IT Project Management is the discipline of planning, organizing and delineating responsibility for the completion of organizations’ specific Information Technology (IT) goals. IT Project Management processes are guided through five stages: initiation, planning, executing, controlling and closing. Orderly IT project management is inherent to an organization’s IT strategy and is usually under the direction of the Chief Information Officer (CIO).
IT Project Management is the process of planning, organizing, securing and managing IT resources to bring about the successful completion of specific project goals and objectives within the time, cost, scope and other relevant constraints.
IT Project Management tasks include; background research, help in the development of a proposals and quotes, mapping of resources, scheduling resources, brainstorming ideas, project prioritizing, establishing an IT project timeline, breaking a complex project into manageable sub-projects, performing risk analysis, integrating mitigation into project planning and developing the definition of the project’s scope-of-work.
Surrounding the performance of a single IT project are activities that support and direct the organization and its ability to perform multiple IT projects in a complex, changing environment. These activities include ongoing improvement, the effort to learn from past experience and improve the way you perform and manage IT projects, initiate and continue the right IT projects and to manage the optimum use of resources.
Multi-IT-Project Management
Multi-IT-Project Management is the process of looking across all of the IT projects being performed and managing them as a group to avoid conflicts and promote synergy.
Effective Multi-IT-Project Management are among the most critical factors for successful IT projects. They address many of the root causes of chronic problems in IT projects, such as the chronic over burdening of resources and constant priority shifts that create confusion and impact productivity.
Collaboration and consulting represents the critical need for teamwork, communication, coordination and the management of knowledge and information. The project managers at Infinitech use a combination of years of study, hands on experience as well as up to date IT project management software to easily manage your projects and team from any location.
IT Project Management Estimates and End Cost
Sometimes the word “estimate” is confused with “target” and “goal.”
An estimate is a realistic assessment based upon known facts about the work, required resources, constraints, and the environment, derived from estimating methods, whereas a target or goal is a desired outcome, commitment, or promise. Other than by chance, the estimate usually will not be the same as the target or goal.
That said, once computed the estimate can be compared to a target value or goal, and revised by making changes to the cost origins work tasks, resources, schedules, etc. An estimate should be determined independently of any target or goal.
Afterward it can be altered by adjusting the work and resources to bring it as close as possible to the target, but never should the estimate be a simple plug-in of the target value.
Collaborative Partnerships for IT Projects
A cooperative relationship between IT service providers and primary functional and business-line service providers produces an agreement to share responsibility for IT project outcomes.
It also produces an agreement to share the project manager and project sponsor responsibilities for an IT project in which case the PMA roles of “project manager” and “project sponsor” mean multiple individuals with a shared responsibility.
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