SOFT FACTORS IN PROJECT MANAGEMENT FOR ENTERPRISE CONTENT MANAGEMENT

Management of SW project is a vivid organism. The systems approach to project management problems emphasises the need to consider both hard and soft factors. Hard factors are those that can be defined, measured or assessed in an objective way whereas soft factors are more imprecise and are matters of individual values and tastes. Project methodologies provide the champion with concepts, steps, techniques, and templates to support project management. One of the key steps that experienced practitioners find useful, when managing an enterprise-wide project to implement ECM into corporation, is to determine the soft factors in PM to be eliminated during the project phases.