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Best Practices for Working with Outsourced Software Development Teams |
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How do projects really save time, cost, and your professional reputation?
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By Rosemary Hossenlopp on
3/16/2009
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Dulcey Branch, is a Silicon Valley based senior software project manager with over 14 years of experience consulting in a variety of industries including high tech, utility, aerospace and health industries.
She has significant experience with working with offshore resources that code, write and execute test scripts. In this audio interview, she discusses three common project management challenges and how to overcome them. They are:
• Unreliable Infrastructure,
• meetings when there is a large difference in time zones, and
• coders hired to do the development are often not involved in the Analysis and Design of the software.
She shares practical guidance for project teams struggling with these issues.
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New Year Resolutions |
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Timothy Porter - PM in China
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By Timothy Porter on
1/4/2009
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We are completing a project to re-assess our strategy for 2009 in light of the worldwide economic slowdown and its impact on IT outsourcing. Since a major focus for us is the USA it also includes an awareness of the incoming administration’s attitude towards outsourcing. Our primary focus is the financial services industry and we anticipate a much more difficult environment in 2009, especially with respect to starting new relationships. So we will focus on our current relationships and ensuring that they remain healthy. In general we are taking a cautious view to the ...
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SaaS PM/PPM ROI for a CIO of a Mid Market Company |
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Nick Matteucci - Virtual Teamwork with Real Results
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By Nick Matteucci on
12/16/2008 11:20 PM
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SaaS PM/PPM ROI for a CIO of a Mid Market Company
You promised yourself you wouldn't do it. You wouldn't look at your Blackberry during the Monday morning project update and prioritization meetings. You just can't help yourself and decide to do a quick check of the company's stock price. Ouch, down another 7%. That will teach you for breaking your promise.
It isn't that you don't care what your directors are telling you, it is just that you can't DO anything with the information.
Every week it is the same thing. Every project is "OK" everyone is "working hard", and every new initiative is "high priority".
You have questions in your head that you don't dare speak because you know that nobody has the answers.
How many projects are in Yellow or Red status?
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CIO Fortune 500 Hitchhiker's Guide to Saving Money with SaaS PPM |
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Nick Matteucci - Virtual Teamwork with Real Results
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By Nick Matteucci on
11/27/2008 6:30 PM
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Something is really upsetting you and you just can't get your head around it. You look at the half eaten chicken wrap next to you but you know that isn't it.
You worked for years throughout operations, development, and billing. You ability to forge alliances in the business and to deliver consistent results with comparatively small budgets landed you the CIO job. Now that you are here you wonder where "here" is and how to get "there" in this disastrous financial climate.
You start reviewing the metrics on your desk you asked for 3 weeks ago and received this morning. The project and portfolio management information you thought would be "real-time" apparently took over a hundreds hours to prepare and nearly shut down the whole management staff. Sigh - 100 hours of effort to produce some simple reports that are already out of date. That will teach you for asking your directors "what is going on?"
Looking over the numbers the first one grabs your attention. IT spent over 1,000,000 hours on projec
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