The Project Management Office Toolkit

Projects Do Not Have to Be Large

Project management is becoming well-entrenched in IT organizations and hardly anyone would argue with the proposition that it is needed for the largest, most expensive, most complex, or corporately sensitive undertakings. Indeed, most requests for proposals (RFPs), which are used almost exclusively for larger projects, require proponents to provide the credentials of their proposed project managers and to outline their project management processes.

However, as the example that begins this chapter illustrates, any project benefits from being managed. In that example, a relatively inconsequential project had wallowed along for seven months before a few project management techniques brought it to completion.

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