Successfully Achieving Strategy Through Effective Portfolio Management

STEP 3

Planning and Implementing the EPMS

Step 3 Introduction

3.1 Initializing the Project

3.2 Developing the Scope of Work

3.3 Architecture and Design

3.4 Scheduling the Project

3.5 Budgeting the Project

3.6 Determining Quality Expectations

3.7 Risk Analysis

3.8 Organizing the Project

3.9 Implementation Steps

Step 3 Summary

Introduction to Step 3

Now that we’ve armed ourselves with the right information to create the EPMS, prepared the organization to accept it, and designed it, we are finally ready to create the project plan to actually manage the work of developing and implementing it.

This chapter outlines a basic project management approach and then goes into details on how to apply project management to a complex information technology ...