Project Portfolio-Program Management

Vectorized from: Ken Schwaber, Mike Beedle: Agile Software Development with Scrum Prentice Hall PTR, 2001 (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Over the years, its by human nature to quantify most of the aspect when it comes to Return on investment . Project dashboard are meant to provide bird view of the project's overall health from a top level perspective. Although it gives a broad level view of the time lines , resource utilization, budget and so on so forth. Can we quantify performance indicators like human aspect of deliverable like motivation levels of team members, quality of customer sustenance, business continuity etc. Since emotional intelligence has certain predominance over IQ definitely it matters. In concurrent times of agile development where practices like scrum, iterative development , extreme programming are kind of just in time techniques to deliver solutions to different kind of projects. can we be able to quantify human aspect of indicators in agile ...

Is IT driven by business? I believe its a good question to be asked at this point in time after the doom of financial markets allover world. When top investment banks collapsed in USA and Europe everybody is asking a question how it is possible if the system in place. IT in general supposed to be driven by business requirements so its natural process that, as other component in business, this is also adding value to business, but is that benefits realized to business? Is IT a hype from time and again? Business value of IT measured in different metrics and methodologies that may or may not give true picture of IT value to business, so the contradiction lies in the hypothesis itself that IT is driven by business which is adding no value but continuing. In the concurrent world where businesses are competing for survival and existence IT is invaluable from intangible perspective.  Making sense of PM triangle  The infamous scope, cost and schedule trio can be realized for IT bus...