An IT Project
Management toolkit has been developed to
facilitate the delivery of IT solutions
within budget, on schedule, within scope and
in such a way as to best contribute to
accomplishing the University's strategic
mission. From the numerous PM methodologies
currently available, this toolkit is based
on best practices from the Project
Management Institute and has been customized
for use in our environment. These toolkit
offerings were chosen based on two beliefs:
- The toolkit is an ever-evolving set of
guidelines, templates, and examples.
- The tools are designed to help you manage
your project and can be adapted for any
particular project.
Determining Project Priority (CIO Area)
Projects within the CIO Area are prioritized
by the CIO leadership sponsor using the
Prioritization Worksheet to ensure available
resources are applied to the highest
priority projects. This factor is considered
during CIO leadership team discussions
regarding project resourcing and initiation.
Determining Project Complexity
Project complexity is a critical factor in
determining the 'right' level of
documentation and oversight for a given
project. A Project Complexity Tool, based on
work at HP, is available to assess the
overall complexity of the project and basis
for that determination.
Determining Appropriate Project
Documentation
Once the complexity has been assessed, the
Project Tailoring Checklist can be used to
review recommendations and determine the
appropriate documentation for each unique
project. For lower complexity projects, the
PM and CIO leadership sponsor may choose to
utilize a combined Plan and Charter document
to optimize documentation.
Guidelines and Templates
In the table below are guidelines,
templates, and examples for the CIO Area.
IT toolkit has REVOLUTIONIZED our IT, It forms the bedrock of our SOP toolkit, enables us to generate run books and has dramatically lowered the cost of training new IT staff, while increasing user's satisfation .
Once we implemented IT Toolkit, all of that changed. Now we have an IT final plan that looks professional, is well organized and makes it easy for everyone to find the information that they need.
The responses from clients has been very positive as well. Even the ones who have the information don't have it as wellorganized as we do and they really appreciate having everything together. Most importantly, we are becoming more efficient and that leads to greater IT Manager!
The toolkits provides a framework for a best practice implementation - where if your best practice changes or refines, your entire documentation environment follows.
The IT Toolkit brings order to the chaos of managing and delivering on documentation for our clients. It has let me reduce the burden on my engineers managing documentation and allowed them to focus back on the client. It's a game changer .
I have been searching for a good tool that will help avoid duplicate entries for documentation purposes. The IT Toolkit did just that and more. All of our engineers absolutely love this tool. We eliminated 2 tools and replaced them with the IT Toolkit which is much more effective and faster.
The step-by-step IT Toolkit is easy to use and there is zero ramp up time - you can read this clearly laid out ebook and implement right away. I appreciate that you make the process easier on my clients and still give them 100% control.
The IT Toolkit gives me a broader understanding of the use and efficency of IT management. It presents a friendly, easy way to do something I've known would be good for me.
The toolkit is helping organize my thoughts and training methods with our IT Inside crew already.
Excellent IT Toolkits. It is a must for all CIO and technology managers.
A very useful toolkit. It's one of the best tools I have ever taken. I wish all IT managers could take it.
These toolkits have helped me gain confidence in my ability and empowered me to be an IT manager.