IS&T Project Management Requirements
"Project Management is a way of doing business, not a separate activity."
-May 2004
Dr. Jerrold M. Grochow
Vice President for Information Services and Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Basic Expectations for Managing any IS&T Project
- Understanding and defining scope/desired outcome
- Setting target dates - initially and update as needed
- Identifying the sponsor/stakeholders/key customers
- Estimating time, money, resources to do the work
- Defining key deliverables
Defining a task plan with an appropriate Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), duration, and resources - Calculating Return On Investment -- "ROI" (e.g., is cost worth return?)
- Providing periodic status reports, especially if any of above changes (e.g., Control: issue management, change control, budget and financial analysis)
- Performing closeout (e.g., final payments, budget reviews, transition of team members)
