BANGALORE, INDIA: Three things that any IT project head dreads to hear are missed deadlines, cost over runs, and unsatisfied user expectations. These can all be avoided if you use the right ingredients for managing your IT project. We tell you about some of them.

A clear understanding of requirements
The first thing that we asked the IT project heads was to identify the single most important ingredient for a successful IT deployment. As it was an open-ended question, we received various kinds of responses. But most of them in some way or the other hinted at only one conclusion-a crystal clear understanding of the requirement. What do you really want to achieve with your project? What's the killer need for doing it? That sounds like quite an obvious answer, you may say. But when handling complex deployments, the obvious often
becomes obscure. So understanding the real requirement of an IT project is a must, but the fact is, it's easier said than done. Let's understand this with an example.

You may feel a strong need to deploy virtualization technology in your data center. You understand what virtualization technology is, and know that it can improve the utilization of servers in your data center. You could even reduce the downtime of your servers by taking backups of the virtual disk images of your servers.

The trouble is, your management does not understand this requirement, as it's too technical. So it has to be translated into tangible benefits that everyone can understand. For instance, one tangible benefit could be that you want to cut down significantly on the electricity and air-conditioning bills in your data center.

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