![]() ![]() War rooms proved their worth, as multiple teams coordinated their efforts, developing software patches under neigh impossible deadlines. ![]() Whatever form, today's project management war rooms owe their renewed popularity to the Y2K era, when companies knuckled down to avert potentially disastrous glitches in their information systems. As projects spread across continents and time zones, many war rooms now exist as a Web site, but in that case, the challenge is, “How do I provide that same data to the project team that we used to have in hard copy form in this room to the people no matter where they are on a real-time basis?” says IBM Project Manager Jerry Perone, PMP. In its simplest form, a war room could be “everyone's favorite lunch site,” albeit with a few Gantt or Pert charts tacked to the walls, says Peter Fieger, an independent Victoria, B.C., Canada-based information technology (IT) consultant who has used war rooms to develop health care information systems.“The opposite extreme would be something like author Tom Clancy's Op Centner” he says, describing a room replete with glowing plasma screens and live two-way video feeds from multiple locations. ![]()
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