The standard Reengineering principles are as follows - 1. Organize work around its end results, not tasks According to this principle, ...
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Why Companies Do Reengineering?
Companies are doing reengineering since they want to remain stable in the dynamic business environment while facing changing strategies, fi...
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Reengineering Example
Consider the case of approving a loan application. In the manual process, it takes 6 persons and considerable amount of time to accept the ...
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Creating Process based Organizations
While reengineering a business enterprise, we create a process based organization structure for the enterprise to avoid the inefficiencies ...
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Reengineering - Basic Approach
Reengineering process can be summed up into three basic approaches are as follows - 1. STREAMLIING 2. INTEGRATING 3. TRANSFORMING 1...
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Basic steps in Reengineering
We can generalize Business Process Reengineering (BPR) efforts as an eight step process as follow - Step 1: Formulate / Modify business v...
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What is Re-engineering?
Re-engineering or Business Process Re-engineering (BPR) is way of rethinking or redesigning the existing business systems both in technical...
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Lack of Risk Management and its effect on project
Lack of risk management is one of the main causes of project failure. A classic example for this would be the project my company executed ...
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How to convince importance of Risk Management
Suppose you called a meeting with your project team, various experts and the stakeholders, to start the risk planning process. One of the s...
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Expected Monetary Value (EMV)
EMV is a statistical concept (with a defined formula) which calculates average outcome when there is uncertainty in the final outcome (mo...
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Project size and Project risk
Project size and Project Risk: Another interesting topic in Project Management world. From my experience with software development, I thi...
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Risk of Project Failure due to Interpersonal Issues
Interesting question as I wonder this situation (Risk of failure due to interpersonal issues) is often less addressed anywhere. I shall add...
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Team Building and Motivation Practices
What kind of team-building exercises and/or motivational practices have you used, or participated in? Would you recommend them for use by o...
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Software Quality Issue
One of the major Software Quality issue that I experienced is with product xyz which my current employer deployed as the Version control a...
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Driving Software Quality
Define one or two aspects of IT product quality that should be considered when planning software project activities. How can they be measur...
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Quality Management Programs
What quality programs, formal or informal, have you experienced in your work? How well do you feel they were implemented? What was the leve...
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Getting Earned Value Right
Scenario Describe how you would go about finding the r oot cause of unsatisfactory Earned Value measurements on a project, and what meas...
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Time Reporting for Technology Professionals
How do you feel about the concept of such time accounting for technology professionals? (e.g. compared to just reporting progress via e-mai...
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Better Time Reporting Systems
System Background (circumstances): Most of the employers uses a web based time logging application that falls into the category of time a...
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Schedule Compression
Lets say you have been notified that the project need to be completed in next 6 weeks, what would you do? I guess, since we have lesser amo...
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Schedule Compression Determination
If you were managing a software development project that was a year away from completion and the project sponsor asked you to cut a month f...
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Importance of Formal Project Planning
One of the projects that I executed for one of my employers was an internal employee goal tracking system. The system enables employees fro...
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Importance of following well-integrated change control process (CCP)
Change in IT projects' life cycle is inevitable. This points at the importance of establishing means to identify, control and document ...
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If You Promote a Technical Person to Management
Scenario: Nicek is a senior technical leader and got a recent promotion as Project Manager, but was not given appropriate training in PM pr...
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Sample WBS (Work Break Down Structure)
Below is a sample work breakdown structure for an online attendance management system that I worked on in the past -
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Scope Change During a Project And its Impacts
Project background: Developer xyz was in the middle of a project that went several scope changes while in UAT. The project is about imple...
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Preparing WBS Using Mind Mapping Technique
I would prefer the mind mapping technique to arrive at WBS (work break down structure), due to my liking for problem solving by visualizat...
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Example Problem Resolution Scenario
Project description: Project for xyz that included development, maintenance and enhancements to the official web site and web-based int...
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A Sample Day For a Project Manager
Project Management skill is very important in information management area. Let me paint a historical (early 2000) projet lead role where I ...
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Information Architecture and Web Site Concept
XYZ Company Web Site Concept Draft “Becoming industry’s premier outsourcing solution for managed care services” Overview For the pas...
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Strategic alignment of IT resources - A case study (Part 2)
Strategic alignment of IT resources - A case study in Grocery industry (Part 2) Japan UK Spain US Effect of economic situat...
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