Avoid Getting Lost: Build Out Your Applications Roadmap

Posted on February 1, 2012 by Info-Tech

Applications Managers, do you have an applications roadmap in place? If not, it’s time to stop making excuses about why and get started! Nevermind if your IT department doesn’t have an IT roadmap, you can still reap the benefits of … Continue reading →

Posted in Applications, Governance, News & Analysis, What's New in Research | Tagged application manager, applications department, firefighter, roadmap, Strategy | Leave a comment

 

 

Taming the IT Metrics Beast

Posted on November 23, 2011 by Info-Tech

Complaints about metrics are often rooted in managers wading through too many individual metrics, or metrics that don’t help drive decisions, or data that they simply can’t trust. If this is you, you need to take a step back and … Continue reading →

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It’s complicated: Use Enterprise PPM to manage the complexity

Posted on November 14, 2011 by Info-Tech

Business simply doesn’t happen in a perfect, orderly, predictable way. People need the right tools to manage all the complexity. IT is expected to keep tabs on hundreds, even thousands, of projects happening at any given instant – to provide … Continue reading →

Posted in Applications, Governance, News & Analysis, What's New in Research | Tagged application management, Artemis, Changepoint, Compuware, enterprise ppm, enterprise project portfolio management, eppm, Instantis, microsoft, Microsoft Project Server, Oracle, Planisware, Planview, PowerSteering, ppm, Primavera, product development, professional services automation, project, project manager, project planning, project portfolio management, project prioritization, project reporting, project-management, psa, resource management | Comments Off

 

 

IT Is on Fire

Posted on October 17, 2011 by Info-Tech

Most of us aren’t firefighters, but we understand the basic premise of what happens when a building is engulfed in flames. The fire has to be brought under control and the environment made safe. Once this happens, someone determines the … Continue reading →

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Align IT Maturity Level with Organizational Needs for Success

Posted on October 6, 2011 by Info-Tech

There are three levels of IT maturity: firefighting, housekeeping, and innovating. As IT departments increase their maturity levels, they move from reactivity to proactivity to creativity. We all know that being stuck in reactive firefighting mode is a bad thing, … Continue reading →

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