Project Management

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Why project management functionality tightly integrated with Asset Lifecycle Management (ALM) tools is essential to executives of asset-intensive industries.

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This video describes that maturity lifecycle and the key management activities you will need to get past these tipping points, drive virtualization maturity and deliver virtualization success, at every stage of your virtualization lifecycle.

To find out how your organization can reduce costs, speed time-to-market, and improve quality, download Quark's new white paper for free.

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Requirements excellence cannot be achieved without first understanding the critical capabilities of requirements maturity, and recognizing your organizations strengths and weaknesses. In order to develop a focused plan of attack, it is necessary to assess your requirements practice in each of six areas: process, technology, staff competency, organization, techniques, and deliverables. You will then be armed with the information you need to identify key improvement opportunities, recognize organizational strengths, and form concrete goals for action.

Requirements quality is tangible. It is possible to look at the specific characteristics of requirements documentation and determine if it is sufficiently clear, accurate and complete to lead to a successful project. Since flawed requirements trigger about 70% of all project failures,1 this paper will present some hard and fast rules for looking at requirements documents, in any format, and being able to determine if they are reasonably well constructed. It will outline the key points to look for in a requirements document, and why this can save a company hundreds of thousands of dollars. Finally, it will offer five straightforward questions to address when evaluating requirements quality. The paper is not intended to be a full audit of requirements, but rather act as a guide and checklist for evaluation.

If your organization is not predictably successful in technology projects, there is likely an issue in requirements. CIO?s must take action and own requirements maturity improvement. CIOs are in the best position to sell requirements maturity improvement to the organization and can greatly help the process by effectively communicating required actions, and ensuring a suitable resources allocation. There are 6 things your CIO needs to know to help him/her in their role of requirements change advocate.

Great requirements are free! Everybody understands that requirements are important, but most do not internalize that fact and take action. In this fast-paced 8 minute video microcast you will find out that great requirements definition and management can dramatically reduce the cost of projects while greatly increasing the likelihood of success.

This new Forrester white paper explores the evolution of project management and outlines steps for defining, hiring and developing your next-generation project managers.

Nearly three out of every four companies have low requirements maturity and achieve the business objectives of their projects only 54% of the time. Low requirements maturity undermines every major measure of development efficiency and simply leads to poor project results.

Find out why top down alignment between IT and the Business is now a mandate and read about how Business can participate when IT prioritizes both sustaining and strategic work.

Leverage the tacit knowledge in your organization to improve decision making, increase control, and proactively reduce risk.