October 2009
Beginner to intermediate
272 pages
5h 23m
English
Overview
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
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Read now
Unlock full access
More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.Julian F.
I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.Addison B.
I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.Amir M.
I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.