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First have a good strategy - Here's a simple strategy
for helping organizations optimize their project management. The most important
recommendation is using a Defined Process. For that we recommend the Unified
Process, which is a systematized collection of current best practices.
The second most important suggestion is to have a Process Manager,
aka Process Evangelist or The Great Expounder of Better Processness. :-)
Introduction to the Unified Process - This is a bit
of a bear to swallow, so we have taken the time to summarize it very briefly
for first timers.
Unified Process Evaluation - These are the Pros and
Cons. It's really good, but needs downsizing so CMM Level 1 organizations can
succeed quickly with it, and needs support for the full lifecycle, not just
the project cycle.
A Simple Unified Process - The greatest risk in adopting
a new process is it fails to work. We reduce that risk by "dumbing down"
the standard Unified Process, tailoring it to a team of 10 on the average, introducing
certain elements, and explaining it all clearly and simply. We present this
as a framework for each particular project to tune a little bit further.