Christof Gellweiler is IT project management consultant with more than 25 years of professional experience in the financial services industry and the IT infrastructure business in Germany. He holds a diploma in telecommunication engineering from TH Bingen University of Applied Sciences and earned an Executive-MBA from Northwestern University / Kellogg-WHU. As doctoral student at BI Norwegian Business School, ISM Vilnius, and Aarhus University, Christof’s research focused on IT architecture management and strategic IT planning. He is certified by PMI and Cisco Systems and teaches project management and digitalization at various universities in Germany and Lithuania. He can be contacted at christof.gellweiler@whu.edu.
International Journal of Human Capital and Information Technology Professionals, 2019
If IT projects are to be successful, they must meet business requirements, and they must be effic... more If IT projects are to be successful, they must meet business requirements, and they must be efficiently managed. IT projects need methodological skills to manage resources as well as technical capabilities for architectural planning and solution design. Project managers and solution architects represent two highly-qualified leadership roles in IT projects, both of which analyze requirements and both of which are responsible for supplying IT solutions. In predictive IT infrastructure projects, solution architects’ technology skills complement project managers’ organizational competencies. The combination of those skills improves requirements elicitation that is the key for IT project achievement. Project managers and solution architects closely collect and evaluate requirements and specify the scope in the planning phase. The relationship between these roles is examined by the IT management literature and established practitioner frameworks. Finally, suggestions for collaboration are derived and presented in the IT solution life cycle model.
International Journal of Human Capital and Information Technology Professionals, 2019
If IT projects are to be successful, they must meet business requirements, and they must be effic... more If IT projects are to be successful, they must meet business requirements, and they must be efficiently managed. IT projects need methodological skills to manage resources as well as technical capabilities for architectural planning and solution design. Project managers and solution architects represent two highly-qualified leadership roles in IT projects, both of which analyze requirements and both of which are responsible for supplying IT solutions. In predictive IT infrastructure projects, solution architects’ technology skills complement project managers’ organizational competencies. The combination of those skills improves requirements elicitation that is the key for IT project achievement. Project managers and solution architects closely collect and evaluate requirements and specify the scope in the planning phase. The relationship between these roles is examined by the IT management literature and established practitioner frameworks. Finally, suggestions for collaboration are derived and presented in the IT solution life cycle model.
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