Product Description
IT Project Management Essentials delivers valuable, professional insights into every aspect of project management, including:
- Defining a Project;
- Task Planning and Sequencing;
- Schedule Development;
- Budget Development;
- Risk Analysis;
- Managing Stakeholders;
- Business Continuity Planning;
- Project Information Security;
- Legal Issues;
- And much more!
IT Project Management Essentials keeps you alert to the important topics to look out for in any project. You'll find:
- Techniques for improving the quality of the project management process through the application of a Balanced Scorecard and Lean Six Sigma;
- An explanation of Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) and how it applies to both the project creation process as well as the product creation process;
- Complete coverage of disaster recovery/business continuity and how this can be built into both the project process as well as the final product;
- Complete coverage of information security and the issues that the project manager must consider during the design and execution of a project;
- IT Project Management Essentials also includes a bonus CD-ROM which makes it easy for you to search for, find, and use what you need faster than ever.
The 2010 Edition brings you information on the following:
- How an applications development project managed using agile techniques delivers the results where traditional project management techniques fail;
- How agile project lifecycle saves money over the traditional waterfall development approach;
- How an agile features list more closely tracks a customer's needs than an exhaustive requirements document;
- Interface Management - how to identify those points in the project plan where people sometimes drop the ball, and how to mitigate them;
- Successful ways to mitigate the negative effects of both logical and physical project interfaces;
- Team leadership explains how all project managers set a productivity example for their project teams - both good and bad;
- How project team leadership is both an art and a science, and the times when you should apply each of them;
- The top 15 leadership traits and how to apply each of them to project management.
