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“sprint based mini-IT teams” is the future IT structure | The Friedkin Companies CIO. The classical IT structure that helps us to go through the last 20 years challenges is not helpful anymore. Silos of computing, storage, developers, operation, support and network engineers won’t help us to successfully address today’s and future challenges. Business is being changed by disruptive technologies. As an IT organization, which needs to support business operation, we can’t create or predict the future technologies and business needs that the future ( and Darwin rules) will introduce us.

What we can do is making sure that we are building platforms and IT organization that will enable decision makers to change business processes or practices fast, really fast. The financial future is unpredictable as well, thus demanding agile, lean and dynamic IT organization that can support the business in the most cost efficient way. To address the described challenges we, as IT leaders, need to stay away from the classical IT structure.

Like this: Like Loading... Project Management Sportsmanship Tips. Sportsmanship is an important quality for a good project manager, it adds professionalism. Watch this project management training video to learn from experience some of the key things that aid sportsmanlike conduct on projects. Transcription Hello, I’m Jennifer Whitt, Director of ProjectManager.com. Welcome today to our whiteboard session on tips for project management sportsmanship. Having grown up in a family of sports and being an athlete myself, sportsmanship was very important. If you do a search on sportsmanship to find out what it means, sportsmanship is a style. Even though I grew up in sports, I attended my first lacrosse match just recently and I was amazed that at the end the winner and the loser teams went across the field and they all smacked hands in congratulations.

So it had me thinking, when was maybe some times where I may have been unsportsmanlike on some of my projects? Number one is to prepare. Number two is: What will they be asking? Project Reporting - Project Status Report Project Reports. Project Reporting - Project Status Report Project Reports. Project Management Directory Home Page. Find the best project management software, training and certification preparation providers, and project consulting services through our easy to use vendor directory. This service is offered by ProjectManagers.net, the leading online resource and network for project managers.

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