Smaller and Faster IT Projects
July 28, 2008 by Raj Sheelvant
Project management is changing. Rather than plotting a big project from start to finish before pulling the trigger, CIOs should get comfortable with doing shorter projects according to the SearchCIO.com article “Project Management needs to think small, faster”
Both these trends are good for IT department and CIOs in the long run. In a hypercompetitive world, speed is becoming the most competitive weapon companies have. Firms are beginning to see the value of aligning IT with business needs. They are beginning to see IT as an enabler of making the firm agile to respond to changing customer needs and rising competition.
IT Project Manager’s goal should be to understand the ‘pain points’ of the company and understand the real business need before implementing the project. IT PM should reduce the scope of the project and release the application with bare minimum functionality to the customer fast. In other words, IT PM needs to deliver the project in an incremental and evolving form instead of a big bang large scale deliverable. That enables the customers to focus on what’s urgent right now. At the same time, project can adapt easily to changing nature of the business. As the article states “Projects and programs in the future must be smaller, faster and easier” so that the organization can extract value from the IT project at a faster rate so that they can be relevant in this fast changing environment.
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