Archive for June 2010

More on project success

MS-Dynamics has showcased an article on successful ERP projects.  Like all these lists, it has a general application across IT projects and lists eight “best practices.  The first is “business driven, IT enabled”.

Project success

E-week recently had an article about ensuring an IT project’s success.  Although this is a general list, it applies as much to a public sector billing project as to any other.  The writer suggested that there are 10 questions the IT manager needs to ask:

  1. Do I have a specific business reason for starting a project?
  2. Have I established a steering committee?
  3. Have I studied the way that the people using the technology do their jobs?
  4. Have I involved the people who will use the technology in its development?
  5. Did I start with the end in mind?
  6. Am I going to be blindsided by the inevitable?
  7. Have I built this technological project with the same discipline I would apply to any other project?
  8. Am I proceeding incrementally from one success to another?
  9. Did I remember to consider the user experience along the way?
  10. Have I appropriately managed expectations?

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