Posts Tagged ‘project management’

Best practices for identity management projects by Hitachi

This post is to recommend you a new white paper by Hitachi: “Best Practices for Identity Management Projects”.

The paper presents some best practices related to project management topics useful deploying and operating an identity management infrastructure.

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Series on developing an identity management roadmap by Identropy

Identropy’s blogger Ash Motiwala has started an interesting series on developing an identity management roadmap.

“I thought a blog series was in order to provide some of our insights into aiding corporations develop an Identity Management Roadmap (which is a step by step guide for your organization to follow when deploying an identity management solution).   I got a chance to sit down and interview some of our 10+ year identity gurus to collect some of their golden nuggets of identity wisdom for this series.  Heck, this may even inspire and enable some of you ambitious folks out there to develop an IDM Roadmap for your organizations yourselves!” Ash says in the first post of the series.

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How to save money in IAM projects deployment

A quite recent Burton’s research found that organizations that deploy provisioning products rarely achieve their objectives during the first project iteration.

While these provisioning projects address some important challenges, they rarely address all the initial expectations and, even if they meet their goals, they result in high maintenance costs and in the inability to adapt to changing needs also in organizations that are on their second or third iteration of a provisioning product deployment.

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The seven Cs of consulting: the definitive guide to the consulting process

Autore: Mick Cope
Editore: Paperback
Data di Pubblicazione: 2003
ISBN: 027366333X
ISBN-13: 978-0273663331
Pagine: 320

This book gives a clear and concise presentation of a model that can drive both newbie and experienced consultants to success in a wide range of change projects.

Based around the 7C’s model (Client, Clarify, Create, Change, Confirm, Continue, Close) this book offers a framework to enable them to manage and succeed in consultancy assignments.
The tools exposed as support to the 7C’s model will help you to improve your professionalism and deliver clearer and more measurable results to your clients.

In my opinion if you see yourself as someone who helps others manage change, then the framework in this book is excellent. Even if the book gives you a complete set of tools that, probably, in a real life project you will be not able to apply, I think that taking into account the aspect measured by those tools will improve your organizational and relational skills and improve your ability to understand your customers’ needs.

Gestione di progetti IT

Autore: Sinibaldi Alessandro
Editore: Hoepli
Data di Pubblicazione: 2008
ISBN: 8820340690
ISBN-13: 9788820340698
Pagine: XII-244

L’oggetto principale del libro è rappresentato dalle tecniche di project management applicate al mercato IT, con particolare attenzione a quelle utilizzate in ambito di sviluppo software.

L’idea alla base è quella di fornire idee, regole o pratiche che possano essere quotidianamente utilizzabili. Accanto alle metodologie più diffuse in ambiti generici, come PRINCE2 e PMBOK, vengono presentate anche molte tecniche specifiche, applicabili alle fasi di pianificazione, sviluppo, test, installazione e manutenzione di un progetto IT.

Il volume affronta, nell’ordine, i seguenti argomenti:
- Che cosa è un progetto
- Raccogliere e gestire i requisiti
- La qualità
- I tempi del progetto
- Stime dei costi di progetto
- Gestione del rischio di progetto
- La gestione delle risorse umane
- Metodologie di Project Management
- Modelli di sviluppo
- I test
- La governance di progetto
- Strumenti di supporto al Project management.

Il mio parere personale è che l’ampiezza degli argomenti trattati abbia portato ad un inevitabile e notevole riduzione dello spazio dedicato a ciascuno di questi, trasformando il libro in una sorta di lungo elenco di spunti di lettura. Il volume può quindi essere considerato un buon punto di partenza per chi si avvicina al project management in quanto offre una breve introduzione ai concetti principali della disciplina ma, certamente, non può essere considerato una fonte di nozioni esaustiva e completa per nessuno dei topic presentati.