Product Description: When we look at a program or a project, to identify its size in terms of 'large', it would be advisable to consider a few factors that determine the size i.e., effort, uncertainty and complexity involved in delivering the outcome...read more

Product Description: This unique guide fills a significant gap in the marketplace. It provides the knowledge, best practices, and proven steps to successfully manage digital projects from end to end. It was created to be easily adaptable to different project types and technological advances...read more

Product Description: Unmasking Project Management helps professionals in information technology (IT) and business identify successful approaches to management of information systems (MIS) that will work for their organizations and projects.

Product Description: The track record of IT projects is poor. Less than a third of IT projects deliver what they said they would, on schedule and on budget. The major cause of IT project failure is not, as you might expect, poor IT leadership or difficult technology but poor business leadership...read more

Methods of IT Project Management, which focuses specifically on IT project management, is built around the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK). Introduction To Project Management; A Systems View and Systems Methodology; The Project Management Framework; Project Initiation; Project Scope and Human Resource Planning; Project Time and Cost Planning; Project Quality and Communications Planning; Project Risk Management Planning; Project Procurement Planning; Project Execution; Project Monitoring and Control Part 1; Project Monitoring and Control Part 2; Project Closure; Advanced Topics in Project Management   For readers interested in understanding the practical knowledge of IT project management.

Product Description: Drawing on the author's recent and ongoing research this book explores how to build the organizational capability to realise the strategic potential of information technology. It tackles the gap between theory and practice and how to gain wider adoption of successful socio-technical and benefits-driven approaches to investments in IT...read more

Product Description: When implemented correctly, release management can help ensure that quality is integrated throughout the development, implementation, and delivery of services, applications, and infrastructure. This holistic, total cost of ownership approach allows for higher levels of system availability, is more cost effective to maintain, and increases overall stability, maintainability, and reliability...read more

Product Description: This book provides an up-to-the-minute look at delivering function and value in IT projects. Information systems projects are by their very nature more complex than other projects. And as technology advances, they seem to get more complicated...read more

Product Description: "With software and hardware development techniques improving constantly, it's surprising to learn that more than half of all technology projects overrun their schedules and budgets by 200 percent or more. "Computerworld" magazine recently reported several surveys showing that project failure is overwhelmingly traceable to poorly defined project organization, a lack of training, weak executive support, inconsistent methods and policies, and other readily addressed factors...read more

Product Description: A hands-on guide, this book is aimed at helping systems project managers deliver successful projects. It contains nearly 40 working tools, charts, sample forms and checklists that should help the project manager to do his job. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This unique book combines the discipline of project management with the challenges of general management in the changing landscape of IS. It addresses the latest project management tools and techniques as applied to a wide range of IT projects.