ISYS302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Prince2, Six Sigma, Executive Sponsor

• School: Macquarie University
• Department: Information Systems
• Course: ISYS302
• Professor: Jian Yang

Document Summary

Many organizations develop own project management methologies, especially for it projects. 2/3rds organizations - some stage of agile adoption realize key software + business benefits faster delivery of products to the customer improved ability to manage changing requirements higher quality and productivity in it. Organizations struggle with magnitude of cultural shift required for agile opposition to change lack of coaching + help in agile adoption lack of qualified people. Daily stand-up, iteration planning, release planning - most commonly used practices paired programming + open workspaces not popular. Organizations that excel in project management complete 89% projects successfully compared 36% organizations who do not practice pm processes. Pmi estimates poor project performance costs > million for every billion invested in projects + programs. Good practice to lay groundwork for project before officially starts. Senior managers often perform several pre-initiation tasks: isys302 page 1. Initiating project includes recognizing + starting new project or project phase.