This survey was conducted to find out non-IT executives’ views on IT’s contribution to the business and identify ways their enterprises are governing IT.
Peter Weill and Jeanne Ross suggest ways to measure the effectiveness of IT Governance. They apply a simple framework that measures progress against four key objectives.
Why do big IT Projects fail? There are many reasons. Mismanagement, new technology and immature IT Organization are amongst them. However, the most frequent reason for large project failure is organizational dynamics or politics.
IT Governance provides the policies, procedures, tools, frameworks etc. to manage IT. Hence, it is critical to the success of any organization. Can you convince your board of the same? More importantly, can you then execute against this obvious premise? Use this primer to educate yourself so you can help your CEO and board
There are various techniques applied to manage project portfolios. This paper discusses using Earned Value Management and Treemaps. The latter provides a very powerful visual technique.