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Do all projects, big and small, flow through your project management office (PMO)?  Or at least are all projects that matter to the organization under the jurisdiction of the PMO?  Well, they should.  If many are, but the real big ticket, high dollar projects that are sometimes the baby projects of some executive in the organization seem to go to some specialized group targeted by said executive, that’s when you may have problems.

The idea here is not to be provocative but accurate. So, if some of this is obvious then so be it. I will elucidate the implications for 2013 and beyond, which may or may not be so obvious.

By Brad Egeland - PM Expert and Guest Blogger

By Brad Egeland - PM Expert and Guest Blogger

By Guest Blogger - Brad Egeland

By Guest Blogger - Brad Egeland

It’s Happening, Keep Up or Fall Behind

Brad Egeland is a Business Solution Designer and IT/PM consultant and author with over 25 years of software development, management, and project management experience leading initiatives in Manufacturing, Government Contracting, Gaming and Hospitality, Retail Operations, Aviation and Airline, Pharmaceutical, Start-ups, Healthcare, Higher Education, Non-profit, High-Tech, Engineering and general IT. Brad is married, a father of 9, and living in sunny Las Vegas, NV. Visit Brad's site at http://www.bradegeland.com/.

Cloud computing for PPM or any other business-critical enterprise application does present some valid challenges and concerns for CIOs globally. IT leadership consistently ranks it highest among their list of objections and concerns. For example, a study of European CIO's that was published earlier this year by Citi Research listed "security/data privacy" as by far the biggest concern with 43% citing it as a concern. The next biggest issue, "no suitable cloud applications," was cited by only 18% of respondents. Further, a global study conducted by Ovum Research in 2011 is consistent with this finding. It shows security being listed most frequently as one of the top 3 concerns with 359 out of 530 total respondents listing it as such compared to 246 for the next biggest concern, "governance/control."

Brad Egeland is a Business Solution Designer and IT/PM consultant and author with over 25 years of software development, management, and project management experience leading initiatives in Manufacturing, Government Contracting, Gaming and Hospitality, Retail Operations, Aviation and Airline, Pharmaceutical, Start-ups, Healthcare, Higher Education, Non-profit, High-Tech, Engineering and general IT. Brad is married, a father of 9, and living in sunny Las Vegas, NV. Visit Brad's site at http://www.bradegeland.com/.