Skip to Content
Federal IT Capital Planning and Investment Control (with CD)
book

Federal IT Capital Planning and Investment Control (with CD)

by Thomas G. Kessler, Patricia A. Kelley
March 2008
Intermediate to advanced
400 pages
7h 11m
English
Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Content preview from Federal IT Capital Planning and Investment Control (with CD)

Preface

Government agenciesi have a responsibility to the public to make full use of information technology (IT) as a means to achieve their missions effectively and efficiently. This statement seems self-evident, but the reality is that full use of IT resources is difficult to achieve for many reasons. To begin with, it is not easy to envision the innovative ways that IT can be used to achieve program outcomes, especially when emergent technologies are in their developmental stages. For example, when the personal computer was introduced in the early 1980s, agencies continued to believe that mainframe computing was the best strategy. It took five or more years for most agencies to appreciate the benefits that could be achieved through personal ...

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

AirBnbBlueOriginElectronic ArtsHomeDepotNasdaqRakutenTata Consultancy Services

QuotationMarkO’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.
Head of Cybersecurity
QuotationMarkI 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.
Field Engineer
QuotationMarkI’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.
Data Platform Tech Lead
QuotationMarkI'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.
Mark W.
Embedded Software Engineer

You might also like

Achieving Project Management Success in the Federal Government

Achieving Project Management Success in the Federal Government

Jonathan Weinstein, Timothy Jacques

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9781523096046