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Published on: March 2008
Type of content: WHITE PAPER
Format: Adobe Acrobat (.pdf)
Price: FREE

Overview:
Today, IT organizations spend a large amount of their time delivering projects. There are many reasons why IT projects fail - many of which can be attributed to a lack of visibility into long-term project needs. This CA white paper contains practical insights and best practices for better IT project delivery and ways of moving from an ad-hoc approach to a more effective process by implementing a project management office (PMO).

Once you have read this paper, you'll receive valuable insights and featured research from Gartner to help you improve your IT project delivery in five weekly bite-sized segments for quick and easy consumption. Here's what will be available:

• Week 1: Featured Gartner Research Report: Key Questions and Answers: Program and Portfolio Management - Laying the foundation for project success. CA video featuring Gartner: Getting everyone on the same page - Gartner Research VP Matt Light introduces the fundamental role of the project management 'center of excellence' in delivering IT projects
• Week 2: Assessing project management maturity
• Week 3: Evolving from project to portfolio management
• Week 4: Deploying portfolio management solutions
• Week 5: Adopting best practices

Topics:

IT Portfolio Management
Project Management Solutions
Change and Configuration Management
Requirements Management
Application Lifecycle Management(ALM)
IT Service Management (ITSM)/ IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL)