eProjectWorld.com!

Welcome to eProjectWorld.com, a Collaborative (ad-free) community designed for project management professionals who wish to share ideas, project stories, artifact documents, blogs, methodologies, and other relevant content. The name eProjectWorld is used to describe the multifaceted world of project management.

This site is primarily aimed at Technical Project and Program managers. My background has a predisposition for IT Project Management and it's many challenges (Customer Facing Applications, Operations, Infrastructure, Technology Evaluation and Architecture Management and Oversight).

This site features: project management community forums, photo galleries, opinion polls, articles, PM tools, Web 2.0 site features, blogging capabilities and more. You'll need to register (Member Login Menu ) to become a member in order to see the utilize the full set of available options and free downloads.

The "Zen" of Project & Program Management

(an adaptation from Microsoft)

Program managers are central to the value proposition. In early planning, we immerse ourselves in customer needs, technological trends, political landscapes, business priorities and chasing sponsorship from which we distill a clear and focused value proposition.

We articulate what the team is signing up to deliver, the estimated time and funding it will take, and the purpose it is intended to serve. This articulation of the value proposition serves as the "plan of record" from which the team forms it's decisions about features, designs, timelines, cost estimates and priorities.

As the project moves from planning into design, we "paint the detailed picture" of what the team will deliver, through various means depending upon the "methodology" selected. This vision can be realized by storyboards (Agile/Scrum), Business Requirements Specifications (Traditional) prototypes (PDIM), or adaptive models which leverage a hybrid approach to take advantage of the best practices to maximize efficiency. Your company policy, or PMO will determine which method is appropriate.

As the project moves from design into execution and on to the end state, we keep perspective to ensure that the tactical decisions fit within the framework of the value proposition.

Ultimately, we ensure that the "product" of our projects represent a strong value proposition and that the solution actually delivers the promised value.