Know the Value of Having PMP Certification by Shawn Futterer
Foote Partners LLC, an IT workforce research company, assesses the skills and pay of more than 35,000 IT professionals in over 1,800 North American and European companies. In a recent survey, they found that the Project Management Professional certification provides the best bonuses for IT... Employers who use PMPs are assured that they have hired Project Managers who have a core competency in Project Management and the requisite experience to perform as a project manager. ... The reason is mostly due to the fact that the Project Management Institute issues the certification.

IT Project Governance And Prince2 Project Management: How To Keep Major IT Investments On The Rails by Alan Calder
In today’s fast-changing information economy, IT project governance has emerged as one of the most vital corporate responsibilities. The relentless pressure to innovate whilst simultaneously driving down costs means that organisations are increasingly ‘betting the farm’ on the successful... It perfectly matches the requirements of a project governance regime by delivering the following attributes to any project: • A controlled and organised start, middle and end • Regular reviews of progress against plan and against the business case • Flexible decision points • Automatic management...

Introduction to Thomson NETg by Natalie Aranda
Thomson NETg is one of a kind global learning Enterprise offering live online classrooms and a wide range of Integrated Learning solutions. Their learning offer includes high-quality instructional content, cutting-edge enabling technologies with multiple delivery options, and a full range of... Project Management with the following areas: Project Management Skills, Project Management Institute. ... Business and Professional Development including Management and Leadership, Communication Skills, Project Management Skills, Personal Development, Sales, Service and Marketing, HR/New Employee...

Software Process Improvement -A Successful Journey by Deepty Chauhan
Background: For many organizations like ours, the interim target of achieving ISO 9001 or CMM levels is a daunting task. Discipline is no fun —Organizations readily acknowledge that striving to address projects according to ISO 9001 or CMM guidelines requires the creation of new procedures. ... We developed a vision to use the best practices of software development teams and the eleven best practices were identified: * Develop iteratively (incremental development life cycle) * Use component-based architecture * Visually model the product using the Unified Modeling Language (UML) *...

Customer Relationship Management by Zeeshan Haider
What is CRM? Customer Relationship Management (CRM) combines business strategy and technology to identify, acquire and retain profitable customer relationships. CRM creates a comprehensive picture of a customer across all channels by analyzing information collected during every transaction and... Better Management presents extensive resources on Customer Relationship Management topics to help you develop strategies for optimizing your customer relationships. ... A recent (2001) survey of more than 1,600 business and IT professionals, conducted by The Data Warehousing Institute found that...

Thinking About Becoming PMP Certified? by Shawn Futterer
So your thinking about taking the PMP Exam? You should know, it's a computer-based exam hosted by the Sylvan-Prometric Testing center. It is composed of 200 multiple-choice questions based on the Project Management Body of Knowledge or PMBOK. Test questions are randomly selected from a database... Initiating the Project......11% Conduct Project Selection Methods Define Scope Document Project Risks, Assumptions, and Constraints Identify and Perform Stakeholder Analysis Develop Project Charter Obtain Project Charter Approval Planning the Project......23% Define and Record...

School Administration Software AIMS PLUS by Kundan Upadhyaya
-Students Administration System is the most powerful central database system that seamlessly knits together all modules in the AIMS PLUS students records management system. It has been designed to be powerful, fast and fully customisable. It is so powerful and user friendly that on a single... -It has a number of options which can be set according to the specific needs of the school. ... -It is fast, complete and easy to operate school administration software. ... -It is a multi-user, fully secure system.

What's the Fuss over FOSS? by Chin Wong
What’s the fuss over FOSS? IN an industry where acronyms are de rigueur, it seemed inevitable that an old computing concept would get a new name. Last November at the United Nations World Summit on the Information Society (which goes by its own unwieldy acronym WSIS), FOSS was on everyone’s lips... Out of this environment came Richard Stallman, a programmer at the Artificial Intelligence Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ... These include school projects in Namibia, Spain and India, computer kiosks in South Africa, a disaster management system in Sri Lanka, and an...

The Capability Maturity Model and the SEI - What has it Done for Software Development so far? by Paul Bellchambers
The Software Engineering Institute (SEI) was formed to provide the US government with a body that developed standards for the human and technology aspects of the processes of software and systems development. It is a research and development centre. It now has a European office in Frankfurt. ... But where governance and accountability is important a more heavier duty framework will go the distance a you will need to have documented all of the activity, people, spend etc for and inquiry on the state of the project and the software that has been produced.

The Ratio of Analysts to Programmers by Tim Bryce
"Good specifications will improve programmer productivity far better than any programming tool or technique." - Bryce's Law INTRODUCTION In terms of systems development, during the 1960's and early 1970's you were either a Systems Analyst or a Programmer. ... We are also beginning to see the resurgence of related trade groups to replace such groups as the Association for Systems Management (ASM), for example: The International Institute of Business Analysis The IIBA appears to be picking up where ASM left off, including certification.