- Project Tailoring
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Many
of the problems that come out of projects, whether process delays
or cost overruns at the process level, or defects and omissions at
the product level, have their origins in the way projects are established
and initiated. Many project charters and scope statements already
embed the seeds of what will become project failures at a later date.
This research intiative is looking at the characteristics that result
in such failures, particularly at teh integration points between Six
Sigma and information technology process models.
- Standards Integration
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There are a large array of standards that cover and define domains
of interest to information technology organizations and projects.
Our research focuses on identifying touchpoints between quality models
and information technology project practices that can be used to enable
effective standards compliance that adds value to project efforts
without causing excessive or counterproductive burdens.
- Globalization
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As the social and business sectoirs globalize, best practices are
needed to support the newest requirements for cultural adaptation
and asynchronous working.
- Component Solutions
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Research and project activities can result in components being defined
or developed that can be easily generalized for sharing across projects
and organizations. Our research includes trying to provide many of
these components to our clients in order to maximize sharing and reuse
of practices that we have found to be effective.
- Heuristic
Patterns
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Experienced information technology practitioners have learned over
time that there are only a limited number of general problems and
situations that actually cover a majority of situations encountered
on information technology initiatives. Our research attempts to isolate
these situations and package the results in management and analysis
patterns that can be shared and incorporated into client processes
and practices.
- Leadership
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Principles and practices of emergent leadership in organizations.
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