15 Essential steps of IT project management - Digital Perspectives

I found a great article that discusses the “15 Essential steps of IT project management - Digital Perspectives”. The article is from Healthcare Financial Management, Feb,2002, by David Hefner, Christine Malcolm. I have summarized the article here and provided a link:


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1. Thoroughly evaluate project feasibility.

2. Clarify the project objectives and scope.

3. Make a single sponsor accountable for project success.

4. Appoint a full-time project manager one individual should oversee the day-to-day management, execution, and deliver of the project.

5. Establish a project-management team that can exercise real authority.

6. Create a detailed project plan.

7. Secure committed staff resources.

8. Obtain commitments from vendors and suppliers.

9. Divide project into manageable segments to reduce complexity.

10. Establish clear performance measures and report progress regularly to assess project performance, a specific set of performance indicators should be identified.

11. Take decisive, corrective action sooner rather than later resolve any performance variances quickly and decisively

12. Establish and manage a formal change-control mechanism.

13. Proactively manage a risk.

14. Develop a communication program to promote organization wide acceptance of the program.

15. Celebrate successes, at each milestone to foster team coherence.



Resources:

Hefner, David; "15 Essential steps of IT project management - Digital Perspectives". Healthcare Financial Management. FindArticles.com. 07 Nov, 2010. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3257/is_2_56/ai_83044084/