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Pm Crash Course For It Professionals


Mulcahy Rita, Young Martha

Editore: Cisco Press

Anno di Pubblicazione: 2009

EAN: 9781587202599

ISBN: 158720259X

Pagine:275

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Real-world project management tools and techniques you can start using today!

IT professionals are often faced with extremely challenging project deployments, as well as initiatives that are mission-critical to their organizations. For IT project managers, a strong understanding of the discipline of project management can be invaluable—both to success with individual projects and to their overall careers. However, most books and training materials on project management pay little or no attention to the unique challenges IT project managers face.

PM Crash Course™ for IT Professionals is full of project management tools that you can apply immediately to your IT projects—to deliver them on time, on budget, and with fewer headaches. Authored by world-renowned project management trainer Rita Mulcahy, this book will help you get your IT projects back on track using proven, real-world project management tools and techniques.

This revolutionary Course in a Book® covers the basics of project management, including planning, scheduling, budgeting, and more. It also moves beyond the basics to cover a number of real-world project management tools and techniques for IT initiatives. The authors provide indispensable practical checklists, templates, and exercises to reinforce your learning of these concepts. The book includes dozens of tricks, insights, and contributions from real project managers sharing what has made a difference for them when managing real-world projects.

If you are looking for easy-to-use tools and processes to make an immediate impact on your current IT project, PM Crash Course™ for IT Professionals is the resource for you.

Rita Mulcahy, PMP, founder and CEO of RMC Project Management, is the most popular project management author in the world. Since 1991, hundreds of thousands of project managers have utilized her 30+ best-selling books and resources to expand their project management knowledge and further their careers.

Real-World Issues Covered:

• Understanding why IT projects fail--—and preventing failure

• Defining effective IT project charters and requirements

• Organizing IT roadmaps into manageable projects

• Capturing, creating, and using historical data

• Establishing “soft” and “hard” project metrics and milestones

• Defining project scope, and avoiding scope creep

• Identifying and managing stakeholders and expectations

• Choosing the right PM tools for your needs—including in-house, hosted, and cloud-based solutions

IT projects are not only immensely challenging and mission-critical, but are often prone to failure due to poor project management. For IT professionals, a strong understanding of the discipline of project management can be invaluable–both to success with individual projects and to their overall careers. However, most books and training materials on project management pay little or no attention to the unique challenges IT project managers face.

But now, there is a guide to project management written specifically for IT professionals. Authored by world-renowned project management author and trainer Rita Mulcahy, PM Crash Course™ for IT Professionals teaches IT project management through specific examples and case study-like interviews with IT project management executives. This revolutionary Course in a Book® starts with the basics of IT project management, including planning, scoping, scheduling, budgeting, and more. Then, it moves beyond the basics to cover a number of real-world project management tools and techniques for IT initiatives–like defining IT project charters and requirements, breaking down IT roadmaps into manageable pieces, capturing and using historical data, identifying and managing stakeholders, defining IT project scope, and more. If you are looking for easy-to-use tools and processes to make an immediate impact on your current IT project, order a copy of PM Crash Course™ for IT Professionals today!

Contents

Chapter 1: Before You Read This Book: Introduction to the world of IT project management

Chapter 2: How to Use This Book: how to use the case studies to inform your approach

Chapter 3: Understanding the Project Management Process/ Why IT projects fail

Chapter 4: Defining the Project Charter and Requirements

Chapter 5: Incrementalization: How to break down the IT Roadmap into Projects

Chapter 6: Learning from History: Gaining, Creating and Using Historical Data

Chapter 7: Identifying and Managing Stakeholders

Chapter 8: The Project Scope Statement: Key to IT Project Success

Chapter 9: Preventing Scope Creep: The Work Breakdown Structure and WBS Dictionary

Chapter 10: Estimating in the Real-World of Business

Chapter 11: Real-World Scheduling: or What to do when things go really wrong

Chapter 12: Communications Management

Chapter 13: Preventing Problems: Identifying and Managing Risk

Chapter 14: Saving the IT Project that has Failed

Chapter 15: Measuring Success post Project and Avoiding Career Damaging Errors

Chapter 16: Conclusions and What to Learn Next
Author

Rita Mulcahy, PMP, founder and CEO of RMC Project Management, is the most popular project management author in the world. Since 1991, hundreds of thousands of project managers have utilized her 30+ best-selling books and resources to expand their project management knowledge and further their careers.

Martha L. Young is president and founder of Nova Amber, LLC, a virtual business consultancy specializing in business process virtualization strategies and methodologies. She has been engaged in the technology industry for nearly 20 years.
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