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Validate project status with periodic audits
If you're working on a large project, it's a good idea to get an auditor involved to make sure the project is progressing as expected. Tom Mochal lists the seven steps that you can...
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Audit your configuration management process on large projects
Configuration audits are difficult and expensive in terms of resources and time. Nevertheless, they are vital in ensuring that the final solution is complete and correct and that y...
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Check these four items before analyzing your budget numbers
If you don't recognize and understand these four budget items it's possible (even likely) that you won't properly understand your budget status and you may make wrong decisions bas...
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Use periodic audits to validate project status
The project manager is responsible for establishing a viable project workplan (schedule) and making sure that the project is progressing appropriately against this schedule. Howeve...
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Use a policy audit to ensure that your policies are followed
You've gone to the effort of creating policies in your organization and implementing them. How do you know that they're being enforced and used? That's where a policy audit comes i...
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Check these four items before analyzing your budget numbers
Tom Mochal offers four areas to look at when analyzing a budget.
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Use application architecture to reduce redundancy
A member expresses his frustration after discovering that an application he is working on has already been developed in another sector of his company. Tom Mochal offers keys to avo...
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Create feedback loop to successfully manage your portfolio
CIOs need to gather metrics and feedback to get an indication of how well they're delivering the projects and support within their work portfolio and how successfully they're manag...
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How to manage your work portfolio when business changes affect your plan
Business changes can, and will, disrupt your carefully constructed plans. Learn how to maintain your successful work portfolio by working with your business partners to manage thos...
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Manage the entire year's work with a portfolio
When managing work in a portfolio, you need to ensure that the work in progress is actively managed and that future work is continually planned and forecasted. You'll also track co...