roles Archive
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Project Manager as Enabler of Business Value
Posted on January 7, 2010 | No CommentsThe roles and skills of IT professionals are shifting and project managers will be well served if they cultivate a personal brand of enabling business value. … … “enabler jobs such as business enterprise architects, business technologists, systems analysts and project managers will be most... -
Agile Team Lead Role
Posted on January 4, 2010 | No Comments -
Strategy Execution through Well-Defined Projects
Posted on October 8, 2009 | No CommentsA fair amount of the IT strategy is made up of the portfolio of discretionary investment projects that will drive business growth and/or efficiency. Rightsizing those projects with your team and delivering to your schedules will set the tone with executive leadership. There will be... -
CyberSecurity Role
Posted on June 1, 2009 | No CommentsNew cyber-security role to be created in US Government. The information and network security strategy will be refreshed. Cross-governmental integration and public / private partnerships will be used to strengthen the quality of this effort. Protection of privacy remains a key principle. … … “Today,... -
Separation of Project Duties
Posted on May 11, 2009 | No CommentsThe case is made for filling management roles with multiple resources. The first lesson is to recognize that these roles exist. The technical and project roles are filled routinely. Don’t forget the client relationship role and optimizing the customer experience – especially on IT projects.... -
IT Sustainability Role
Posted on May 9, 2009 | No Comments -
Measuring Success as Technology Evangelist
Posted on April 7, 2009 | No CommentsI remember Apple introduced a role called the technology evangelist when the Mac was introduced. Later, we collaborated with a technology evangelist from Microsoft who helped us better understand the transition to dot Net development. This non-traditional role has had about 10-20 years to incubate... -
Ideal Team to Innovate
Posted on March 18, 2009 | No CommentsNew job posting … Wanted: subversive individual for newly forming project team – knows how to get things done through the informal organizational network. You may need to fill some unusual roles to staff your ideal innovation team. … … “These people have an immense... -
Teams Self-Organize
Posted on January 31, 2009 | No Comments -
IT Strategy Drives Standardization
Posted on September 30, 2008 | No CommentsGM’s IT strategy creates line of business IT roles that drive standardization and process improvements to create business value. … … “Standardizing on all GM applications and tools allows the company’s more than 30,000 engineers, developers and support staff to use the same IT solutions,...
