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Information Technology News Techies leading deployments a recipe for disaster: project management boss
Information Technology News Techies leading deployments a recipe for disaster: project management boss | Techies leading deployments a recipe for disaster: project management boss |
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| by Stephen Withers | |
| Friday, 13 June 2008 | |
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Some people and businesses are obviously cottoning on the the problem, as PMPartners trained over 4000 people last year. Since project management standards are universal, the skills transferred are universal - but the IT sector needs leading edge project management skills due to the rapidly changing environment. "Very often, project management and project managers might be blamed for a project that goes off track," said Belcher, but that's often because the company didn't address the organisational problems when implementing the technology. Part of the problem might be the lack of project governance in Australian organisations. According to surveys carried out by PMPartners between October 2007 and January 2008, 62 percent of them have no governance mechanisms in place, leaving each project manager to operate independently. Without a project management office (PMO) - currently found in only 30 percent of Australian organisations - to oversee individual managers, it is hard to maintain control, said Belcher. But do PMOs always take an active role? CONTINUED |
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