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One of the most difficult parts of project portfolio management is deciding how to rank the projects -- that is, determining which should be done now, later, and, most important, never. There are several ways to rank a project portfolio. Each is useful in specific situations and not so useful in others.
While manufacturers are not there yet, the shift to global enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems is happening. More than one-third of respondents to a recent Cutter Benchmark Review survey have a global ERP system in place. According to AMR Research, this number was much closer to 20% just a few years ago [1].
In Part I of this two-part Executive Update series, I presented a variety of issues that arise in large organizations that attempt to deploy agile software development methods across a broad range of such projects.1 I categorized these issues as emphasizing people, culture/politics, or process. Here in Part II, I outline seven guiding principles for successful efforts to adopt agile methodology.
Executive Update
IT Outsourcing: Building Requirements
Once a decision has been made to outsource one or more IT services -- to reduce costs, improve service quality, provide adequate technical support, or for other prev
Organizations committed to the development of a measurement program to track and improve innovation efforts have at their disposal several off-the-shelf metrics commonly adopted by companies whose measurement programs are more mature. Where do managers turn, however, when they need to complete an innovation management program with internally developed measures unavailable on a store shelf?
In the last Trends Advisor, I wrote about the increasing interest in "semantics" among the leading-edge software folks (see "Semantics Is Hot; Data and Objects Are Not, Part I: The Emergence of the Semantic Web," 19 March 2009).
