A mixed audience level presentation explaining why an enterprise should consider an enterprise wide IT project management methodology. It does not cover actual methodologies.

1. PM Methodologies I Principles and Approach OR: How we know what isn’t so Dirk Swart – Cornell University

3. Just do it. Summary – Read this book

12. Methodologies They can be good to great. They are frequently perceived as « the beatings will continue until morale improves « Let’s change that impression.

13. . A systematic study of methods, or analysis of methods, rules and postulates.

19. "A good deal of strategic planning is like a ritual rain dance. It has no effect on the weather, but those who engage in it think it does. Moreover, much of the advice is directed at improving the dancing, not the weather.”