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Executive Update
The Fundamentals of Managing Object Technology Projects
All of the traditional practices of project management, including estimating, scheduling, monitoring, risk analysis, contingency planning, change management, problem solving, and team building, apply to object technology and component-based development projects.
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IT Industry
Assertion #10Large organizations around the world are struggling to find enough IT professionals to staff key positions. In the next decade, as baby boomers and preboomers retire, and there are not enough younger people to replace them, managing this transition will become a critical problem.
© 2000 by Karl E. Wiegers. All rights reserved.
This work was supported in part by grants from the Office of Naval Research project on Engineering of Complex Systems, by the Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division, and by a cooperation grant on empirical and theoretical foundations for requirements traceability, jointly funded by the German DAAD and the US National Science Foundation.
As companies commit to an enterprise-wide project focus (see Cutter IT Journal, January 2000), business project managers are finding themselves in the position of managing technical subprojects. In today's world, it is hard to imagine a project that does not have an IT component.
Executive Report
Developing a Global IT Sourcing Strategy
This Executive Report describes the fundamentals of building a global IT sourcing organization. We, the authors, spent the last two years building such an organization (which we will refer to as IT Sourcing in this report) for a Fortune 100 pharmaceutical company.
Executive Summary
Developing a Global IT Sourcing Strategy
The accompanying Executive Report discusses an emerging IT function we refer to as global IT sourcing, along with the steps, processes, and tools needed to build such a corporate IT function. The authors spent the past two years building such an organization for a Fortune 100 pharmaceutical company.
Executive Update
Establishing Effective Service-Level Metrics
Software development, enhancement, and maintenance outsourcing arrangements are established on the basis of a contractual partnership, with both sides having a vested interest in the success of the business relationship. The measure of that success can be defined as the effective and efficient delivery of services for a fair market price.