You just got a mandate to manage a program or a project. What is the most important thing you should think of constantly from the beginning until the end of the project? We all tend to think of the triple constraints (scope, schedule, and cost), the risks, and the human resources. In brief, we…
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Q1- Why the word “Cloud”? A: Because the computing resources (IT Hardware and Software) are in Datacenters somewhere. As opposed to the traditional IT, this “somewhere” could be anywhere in the globe and it has not to be necessarily on organizational premises. However there are Cloud services providers who offer to select the exact…
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According to many studies, too many IT projects, especially the large-scale ones, fail to deliver on time and on budget. For example, a study conducted by McKinsey and the University of Oxford (*), on more than 5400 IT projects, suggests that, on average, large IT projects run 45% over budget and 7% over…
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According to many surveys, too many IT projects fail. The failure rate varies from 20% to 70% depending on the survey. Most interestingly, the small projects fail less than the bigger ones. There could be many reasons, but one key reason is: the higher the number of people involved in or impacted by the project,…
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