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  • USA: Lessons from the field

    What state and local governments can teach feds about project management

    During the past several months, officials at the Office of Management and Budget have made a case for improving project management across the federal government.

  • USA: NASCIO calls for tighter state project management practices

    To ensure greater success for government IT projects on which billions of dollars are spent each year, project management practices must be disciplined and adhered to by the agencies and stakeholders involved, according to a study released this week by the National Association of State CIOs.

    The study, “Discipline Succeeds: Findings from the NASCIO State IT Project Management Assessment,” was a self-evaluation conducted by 34 state project management offices during August and September.

  • USA: OMB asks agencies to practice project management discipline

    Earned value management (EVM) is an unfamiliar discipline to many federal project managers, but it won’t be a mystery much longer. Federals agencies have until Dec. 31 to create policies for using EVM to reduce the inherent risk in large information technology projects.

    All federal agencies should be using EVM as businesses have been doing for years, said Tim Young, associate administrator for e-government and IT in the Office of Management and Budget. That office set the Dec. 31 deadline.

  • USA: OMB to expand guidance for watch list projects

    The Office of Management and Budget expects to release within two weeks further guidance for agencies on management of high-risk IT projects, said Karen Evans, OMB’s administrator for e-government and IT.

    The memo will list factors for which agencies have to report progress related to a specific IT project or their IT portfolio on OMB’s management watch list. The information OMB requests will enable it to more closely monitor agencies’ corrective activities. The guidance will be targeted at those projects that require quarterly reporting as part of the President’s Management Agenda scorecard.

  • USA: Oversight agencies squabble over list of high-risk IT projects

    The Office of Management and Budget and the Government Accountability Office disagree over how OMB's list of high-risk information technology projects is managed.

    The list, consisting of 226 IT projects totaling about $6.4 billion, or 10 percent of the government's proposed $64 billion IT budget for fiscal 2007, spans 24 agencies and tracks the management and performance of the initiatives. In a new report (GAO-06-647), GAO said the criteria for placing projects on the list are not applied consistently.

  • USA: Survey: Federal project managers need more training

    The key to reducing the number of failed agency IT projects is training — training on risk identification and management; training on initial baseline development and training on technical project management.

    That is what 104 federal IT executives said when surveyed about the state of IT project management.

    The survey, sponsored by Price Systems LLC of Mount Laurel, N.J., found that at least 67 percent of the executives either said training in risk identification and management, baseline development and technical project management didn’t exist or they were unsure if it was provided by their agencies.

  • USA: White House to demand faster, cheaper IT projects

    Instead of spending years to develop customized information technology solutions to problems industry has already solved, agencies must make greater use of commercial software and roll those systems out quickly to keep pace with technology.

    That was the message more than 50 private-sector CEOs told top Obama administration officials at a Jan. 14 White House summit on how to use IT effectively to make the government run better.

  • Without bridging the digital divide eGovernance projects will not be effective

    eGovernance, especially in developing countries, is looked upon as means to change the very concept of eGovernance resulting in empowerment of the citizens and increased transparency in public dealings by the governments; increased efficiencies in delivery of public goods is an inherent underlying assumption. The big question is that what actually we want to do by adding the letter ‘e’ in front of various words. The main objective of it is just only computerizing the manual process running from last so many numbers of years or we want to improve it without changing the way of processing. The term ‘eGovernance’ is one such term. eGovernance allows direct participation of constituents in government activities. The main objective of the eGovernance models is that better use of information and makes a clear transparency in government-people transactions. It also creates a platform for profitable participation of government in business transactions. Customer relationship management gives better service to the citizens in less time and costs as well as better utilization of space by paperless work environment. Different departments of the government can also communicate very effectively which infect give benefits to the society and helps in the growth of a new economy. Also, a citizen can avail multiple government services from a single point. While looking at these advantages from the eGovernance, we also have to take care about all challenges which play a big role in success of eGovernance system. Some of these challenges are Lack of Integrated Services, Lack of Communication between different Departments, Lack of Key Persons, Population, Establishing Person Identities, and Different Languages.

  • ZW: Adopt IT Management Projects

    Last week we discussed contemporary and exciting IT projects that were exhibited at this year's edition of the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair in Bulawayo. However, there are several horror stories about IT projects that we wish to discuss in this issue.

    According to the Standish Group, "over half of IT projects conceived overrun their schedules and budgets, 31 percent are cancelled, and only 16 percent are completed on time".

    While there are many reasons for the high failure rates, the most significant factor is poor project management and the absence of IT governance.

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