IT Projects can set you apart from the crown. You have to get the individual regular tasks of maintenance and support into the groove so that you can free up time for IT projects.
Some IT projects are obvious, like server upgrades, software deployments and technology refreshes, but some creep in unnoticed and grow into projects.
My definition of a project is not just some grand managed effort that requires days/weeks to plan and weeks/months to deploy. It can include any effort that requires coordination between IT staff and end users. It can include efforts that impact major systems or multiple sites.
Here is my quick list of items that are candidates for being managed as projects, not just tasks.
New Deployments, Upgrades and Modifications to:
Software and Hardware that impacts teachers, students, curriculum, etc.
Global changes that modify:
Access levels of end users
Standard PC Image
GPO’s
Internet filtering
Security settings
Replacements of:
Servers
Routers
Switches
Other hidden project may coalesce by watching for a pattern of problems. Troubles that keep recurring. Duplicate troubles spread over multiple site. Multiple small upgrades that cascade from one system to another (the need to upgrade this before that)
Keep your eyes open and manage projects for success… much more on this later.
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