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Managing IT projects – practical advice for an impractical world

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    • Welcome to my Blog

      Thanks for stopping by and taking your valuable time to checkout my blog! I created this blog to share my experiences working on IT projects with you. Hopefully you’ll find some useful nuggets of information to help you with your projects. Of course, this blog is also a two-way street where I can learn from […]

      Greg Fabian

      April 30, 2018
      Uncategorized
    • Hits, Misses, and Abject Failures

      Hits, Misses, and Abject Failures

      There’s nothing like having a clever name for a system. In this installment of my blog, I’ll take a walk down memory lane and share with you some of the more fanciful system names I’ve run across. Along the way, I’ll also describe some of the more interesting projects that I encountered and their outcomes.

      Greg Fabian

      December 10, 2022
      Practice
      Program Management, Project Management
    • Doing the Same Thing for a Different Result?

      Doing the Same Thing for a Different Result?

      EPA recently completed an Alternative Analysis for the modernization of SDWIS. Is this something new or is EPA doing the same thing and expecting a different result?

      Greg Fabian

      March 29, 2022
      Practice
      Alternatives Analysis, Program Governance, Program Management, SDWIS, Stakeholder Management
    • Customer Disservice

      Customer Disservice

      In this article, I describe an agile approach to developing customer service processes.

      Greg Fabian

      July 12, 2021
      Practice
      CRMS, Customer Relationship Management System, Customer Service, Operations and Maintenance
    • Building Tomorrow’s System to Meet Yesterday’s Problems

      Building Tomorrow’s System to Meet Yesterday’s Problems

      Since 2009, EPA’s Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water (OGWDW) has been trying to replace its aging and technologically obsolete SDWIS State system. Originally designed in the mid-1990s and based on a data model going back to the 1980s, the majority of the States, Territories, and EPA Regions use SDWIS State to help manage their drinking water programs. To avoid a fifth incarnation, OGWDW needs to ensure the new system meets today’s needs.

      Greg Fabian

      September 30, 2020
      Practice
      Drinking Water, Program Management, Project Management, SDWIS
    • Moonshot Projects

      Moonshot Projects

      Apollo was the original moonshot project. Most of us will never work on a real moonshot project. But sometimes we can turn a project into a moonshot if we’re not careful.

      Greg Fabian

      December 3, 2019
      Practice
      Program Management, Project Management
    • The Problematic PMO

      The Problematic PMO

      It’s tough to recognize a problem project if the experts charged with preventing problem projects are the cause of them. How do you know if you have a problematic PMO?

      Greg Fabian

      September 3, 2019
      Practice
      Project Management, Project Management Office, Project Recovery
    • Analysis Paralysis Disorder

      Analysis Paralysis Disorder

      There’s analysis paralysis, and then there’s analysis paralysis disorder – the fear of doing too much analysis that it affects the outcome of a project.

      Greg Fabian

      June 28, 2019
      Practice
      Project Management, Project Management Office, Project Recovery
    • Stakeholder Governance

      Stakeholder Governance

      How to get – and keep – stakeholders involved in your IT projects.

      Greg Fabian

      May 3, 2019
      Practice
      governance, Program Management, Project Management, stakeholders
    • Vendor “Shoot-out”

      Vendor “Shoot-out”

      Are you considering the purchase of an off the shelf business system? This article describes the Software Capabilities Demonstration and how you can use it to help select the system that works best for your users.

      Greg Fabian

      February 21, 2019
      Practice, Tools
      Acquisition, Project Management, Software Capabilities
    • Some Inconvenient Truths About SDWIS

      Some Inconvenient Truths About SDWIS

      A recent Association for State Drinking Water Administrators (ASDWA) report commented on the EPA’s Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS). This article addresses inaccuracies about SDWIS in the report that may affect user expectations.

      Greg Fabian

      January 20, 2019
      Practice
      CMDP, Program Management, Project Management, SDWA, SDWIS, SDWIS Prime
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