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project technology management

IT & Software

Project Technology Management – How Technology Drives Project Changes

While business and economic conditions change all the time, a revolution (or a drastic change in managing projects using advanced technologies and IT software solutions) is a discontinuous and abrupt series of IT innovations that make a foundation for effective project technology management. Due to the acceleration of IT software development and further implementation of project technologies in real project environments, today you can hardly find a project that doesn’t use IT software solutions for driving changes.

IT Project Outsourcing

IT & Software

IT Outsourcing Service for Project Management

IT project outsourcing is one of the central questions that are discussed by people involved in outsourced IT project management. The challenge is that it’s hard to reach cost-effective management of outsourced IT projects because such projects are highly individualized and often have special needs. IT and software project outsourcing requires a special approach to budgeting and planning, which is different from in-house IT project setup and management. In this article we’ll talk about the challenge for outsourced IT project management and describe a few services that help cost-effectively manage IT outsourcing activities.

Marketing PM software

PM Tips & Ideas

Key Software Tools to Succeed in Marketing Projects

Taking into account today’s business efficiencies, marketing project management is one of the key business management activities to take the highest opportunity in an organization for improving performance and increasing the overall business growth. Marketing project management software is a solution that allows performing the marketing function efficiently through using the principles of project management and planning. It paves the way for focusing marketing project managers and planners on analyzing customer orientation and investigating ways for satisfying customer needs through developing detailed plans, scheduling marketing projects, analyzing and mitigating risks, monitoring performance, building marketing project reports and measuring success. In this article we’ll describe several key marketing project management tools that help establish a working environment in which marketers, analysts and planners can efficiently plan, do, monitor and report marketing project initiatives.

ERP implementation planning

Business & Finance

Tips to Successful ERP Implementation Planning

During the recession, many attempts to plan and follow an ERP implementation strategy have been put on hold. Today we’re getting out of the recession, and developing a successful ERP implementation planning strategy becomes one of the prioritized management activities in many business companies.

managing project resources

PM Tips & Ideas

Project Resource Management Software – The Meaning and Benefits

Managing project resources is one of the critical management activities aimed at finding the balanced allocation and levelling of available project resources and optimizing resource utilization and consumption. The project resource management process focuses on planning, scheduling and allocating resources required for initiating and executing a project and its phases. Usually this process is successfully implemented with help of project resource management software which allows using spreadsheets, estimates, templates, to-do lists and reports to plan and utilize project resources.
What is Project Resource Management Software?

It is a computer program to simplify planning and using of resources by providing tools for achieving the balance between project resource requirements, schedules, availability, and optimization opportunities. Project resource management tools allow managing what, where and when a resource should be available and utilized to achieve the optimum project outcome.