Project Management
Managing an IT project is like juggling chunks of Jell-O: It's neither easy nor pretty. Information technology is especially slippery because it's always moving, changing, adapting and challenging business as we know it. Traditional project management, as it's used in construction or manufacturing, deals with solid, tangible elements. Instead, IT project management is complicated by shifting business needs and demanding stakeholders.
Basic Principles of IT Project Management
Projects are short-term efforts to create a unique product, service or environment, such as removing old servers, developing a custom e-commerce site, creating new desktop images or merging databases.
All projects are constrained by three factors: time, cost and scope. For a project to be successful, these three constraints must be in equilibrium. All projects, IT or otherwise, move through five phases in the project management lifecycle: initiating, planning, executing, monitoring and controlling, and closing. Each phase contains processes that move the project from idea to implementation.
IT projects are challenging because they're just plain harder. They include the usual project-management challenges, such as deadlines, budget constraints and too few people to devote to the project... But they also face unique technology challenges, from hardware, operating system, network or database woes, to security risks, interoperability issues, and the changes manufacturers make to their hardware and software configurations. HUB Support harness years of IT project experience to partner for your project’s success.