Tag: "Project Management"

Windows 7 Migration Project Management Part 4 – Appoint a Project Manager and create a Project Team

Windows 7 Migration Project Management Part 4 – Appoint a Project Manager and create a Project Team

| September 3, 2010 | Comments (2)

Windows 7 Migration Project Management Part 4 – Appoint a Project Manager and create a Project Team The steering committee should identify and approve the choice of a Project Manager. This is a key role that will, to a great extent, be responsible for the overall success (or failure) of the project. The Project Manager [...]

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Windows 7 Migration Project Management Part 3- Form an Executive Steering Committee

Windows 7 Migration Project Management Part 3- Form an Executive Steering Committee

| September 2, 2010 | Comments (1)

Windows 7 Migration Project Management Part 3- Form an Executive Steering Committee Now that key members of the organization have been identified, they need to be co -opted into the extended project team as members of the steering committee. The steering committee is a technical and functional group of senior stakeholders who commit to keeping [...]

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Windows 7 Migration Project Management Part 2- Identify Stakeholders

Windows 7 Migration Project Management Part 2- Identify Stakeholders

| August 30, 2010 | Comments (1)

Identify Stakeholders Once the project is approved, the business owner or project sponsor has to identify key individuals or business units in the organization who have a stake in the deployment of this new software. Some examples are the IT department, Finance (license procurement), and executives from any department that is particularly important to the [...]

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Windows 7 Migration Project Management – Overview

Windows 7 Migration Project Management – Overview

| August 30, 2010 | Comments (0)

Below are the Project Management steps that I would recommend for deploying Windows 7 to small and medium-sized organizations. Depending on the type and size of your organization, you may reorder these steps, but they are essentially the same for any significant system migration. Please note that some of these steps will likely run concurrently. [...]

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