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Question3:Search the Internet for the terms project management, project management careers, project portfolio management, and information technology project management. Find at least three websites that provide interesting information on one of the topics. In a one-to-two page paper, summarize key information about these three websites and as well as the project management institutes's website.
Ans:Project management is a carefully planned and organized effort to accomplish a specific (and usually) one-time effort, for example, construct a building or implement a new computer system. It includes different activities like developing a project plan, implementing plan, long with careful controls to stay on the "critical path".
Project management careers represents the future of the project management discipline hinges on the successful adoption of the philosophy of project portfolio management (PPM), a leading project management consultant has cautioned.
The goal of PPM is to organize a series of projects into a single portfolio that describes objectives, coats, timelines, accomplishments, resources, and risk.
Managing Information Technology Projects gives systems project managers field-proven tools and step-by-step methodologies to start and complete every project—hardware, software, or integration—within prescribed parameters. Coverage includes:•Organizing information technology project teams and developing project plans•Risk management issues for IT projects• Systems engineering• Customer requirements and service• Project monitoring, control, closeout, and assessments
www.gantthead.com
www.ittoolbox.com
www.4pm.com
IT toolbox is an online platform that enables everyone to share and gain knowledge about IT. It has a community of professionals that allows everyone to access the information put forward by the professionals, and worldwide users. It provides the practical and timely knowledge about the new and the upcoming IT technologies. It provides different platforms like groups, blogs, wikki, knowledge bases and professional networking. It also has job centre that helps in finding the IT jobs, if any company or person are interested in the advertisement of their IT products, or technology they can use “ITtoolbox” for the purpose. ITtoolbox has 30 Web sites with over 1 million pages of community-generated content providing practical IT information. ITtoolbox even contains research page that contains different research white papers, survey reports, tutorials, podcasts, downloads etc.
Gantthead.com
It is an online community for IT managers. This is built with the mission to make IT managers more successful, this will help the IT managers to start their process of the project and helps to customise their needs, there are deliverables in the form of templates and examples that can help in the fast completion of the project and raise the productivity. As the website allows the platform to the experts to share their experience and knowledge, there are lots of suggestions. There is news and stories related that matters the project that is needed to be accomplished. Managers can have tips on the ways to manage all their effort that they put on their projects. Above all these the main advantage is managers can remotely log in and have different sessions like question answer, review of the deliverables, participating in the meeting through remote login, or can even have the session in the telephone whatever is best suited. It provides different articles related to different project management topics, problems encountered during projects by different project managers, etc,. The users have access to this website for free, they can simple login and enjoy all the benefits.
www.niwotridge.com is a site that has started many years ago as one of the consulting resource site. It provides different materials for the professionals as well as colleagues. It provides the general information and resources like programming language tools and system, IT strategy, Process patterns, journals & magazines publications, encyclopaedias, system architecture etc. users can also have a look on domain specific link like manufacturing, cost management, system engineering, balanced scorecard, IT governance, earned value and other more related links. There is a list of articles, columns, essays, white papers, presentations, technical notes and there is even a blog which provides a space for publication of materials. Thus this is one of the oldest and useful sites for project management participants.
www.pmi.org
It’s already 36 years that PMI is providing the services, and is one of the leading associations that provide membership facility for project management profession, and it is involved in the advocacy for the profession, it helps professionals by setting the standards. It also provides access to different results and reports of research done. It offers different certifications, networking, and community involvement opportunities.
Now it has upgraded a new version of pmi.org that is more customized and is easy to access. PMI provides different training and events that are held. Project managers can take advantages of latest technology news, seminar, related to their projects. Organizational solutions are there to guide. There is a platform for the career framework. Most of the websites that support the project management should be or are certified under PMI.
References :
http://www.managementhelp.org/plan_dec/project/project.htm#anchor440783
http://www.zdnet.com.au/jobs/news_trends/soa/Project-management-s-perilous future/0,130056653,139250536,00.htm?ref=search
Question3:Search the Internet for the terms project management, project management careers, project portfolio management, and information technology project management. Find at least three websites that provide interesting information on one of the topics. In a one-to-two page paper, summarize key information about these three websites and as well as the project management institutes's website.
Ans:Project management is a carefully planned and organized effort to accomplish a specific (and usually) one-time effort, for example, construct a building or implement a new computer system. It includes different activities like developing a project plan, implementing plan, long with careful controls to stay on the "critical path".
Project management careers represents the future of the project management discipline hinges on the successful adoption of the philosophy of project portfolio management (PPM), a leading project management consultant has cautioned.
The goal of PPM is to organize a series of projects into a single portfolio that describes objectives, coats, timelines, accomplishments, resources, and risk.
Managing Information Technology Projects gives systems project managers field-proven tools and step-by-step methodologies to start and complete every project—hardware, software, or integration—within prescribed parameters. Coverage includes:•Organizing information technology project teams and developing project plans•Risk management issues for IT projects• Systems engineering• Customer requirements and service• Project monitoring, control, closeout, and assessments
www.gantthead.com
www.ittoolbox.com
www.4pm.com
IT toolbox is an online platform that enables everyone to share and gain knowledge about IT. It has a community of professionals that allows everyone to access the information put forward by the professionals, and worldwide users. It provides the practical and timely knowledge about the new and the upcoming IT technologies. It provides different platforms like groups, blogs, wikki, knowledge bases and professional networking. It also has job centre that helps in finding the IT jobs, if any company or person are interested in the advertisement of their IT products, or technology they can use “ITtoolbox” for the purpose. ITtoolbox has 30 Web sites with over 1 million pages of community-generated content providing practical IT information. ITtoolbox even contains research page that contains different research white papers, survey reports, tutorials, podcasts, downloads etc.
Gantthead.com
It is an online community for IT managers. This is built with the mission to make IT managers more successful, this will help the IT managers to start their process of the project and helps to customise their needs, there are deliverables in the form of templates and examples that can help in the fast completion of the project and raise the productivity. As the website allows the platform to the experts to share their experience and knowledge, there are lots of suggestions. There is news and stories related that matters the project that is needed to be accomplished. Managers can have tips on the ways to manage all their effort that they put on their projects. Above all these the main advantage is managers can remotely log in and have different sessions like question answer, review of the deliverables, participating in the meeting through remote login, or can even have the session in the telephone whatever is best suited. It provides different articles related to different project management topics, problems encountered during projects by different project managers, etc,. The users have access to this website for free, they can simple login and enjoy all the benefits.
www.niwotridge.com is a site that has started many years ago as one of the consulting resource site. It provides different materials for the professionals as well as colleagues. It provides the general information and resources like programming language tools and system, IT strategy, Process patterns, journals & magazines publications, encyclopaedias, system architecture etc. users can also have a look on domain specific link like manufacturing, cost management, system engineering, balanced scorecard, IT governance, earned value and other more related links. There is a list of articles, columns, essays, white papers, presentations, technical notes and there is even a blog which provides a space for publication of materials. Thus this is one of the oldest and useful sites for project management participants.
www.pmi.org
It’s already 36 years that PMI is providing the services, and is one of the leading associations that provide membership facility for project management profession, and it is involved in the advocacy for the profession, it helps professionals by setting the standards. It also provides access to different results and reports of research done. It offers different certifications, networking, and community involvement opportunities.
Now it has upgraded a new version of pmi.org that is more customized and is easy to access. PMI provides different training and events that are held. Project managers can take advantages of latest technology news, seminar, related to their projects. Organizational solutions are there to guide. There is a platform for the career framework. Most of the websites that support the project management should be or are certified under PMI.
References :
http://www.managementhelp.org/plan_dec/project/project.htm#anchor440783
http://www.zdnet.com.au/jobs/news_trends/soa/Project-management-s-perilous future/0,130056653,139250536,00.htm?ref=search
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