Book description
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
Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- About the Author
- About the Contributing Author
- About the Technical Reviewers
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Before You Read This Book
- Chapter 2 How to Use This Book
- Chapter 3 Understanding the Project Management Process
- Chapter 4 The Project Charter
- Chapter 5 Incrementalization: Breaking the Work into Projects
- Chapter 6 Gaining, Creating, and Using Historical Data
- Chapter 7 Identifying and Managing Stakeholders
- Chapter 8 Finalizing Project Objectives—The Project Scope Statement
- Chapter 9 Preventing Scope Creep: The Work Breakdown Structure and WBS Dictionary
- Chapter 10 Real-World Estimating
- Chapter 11 Real-World Scheduling
- Chapter 12 Communications Management
- Chapter 13 Preventing Problems: Identifying and Managing Risk
- Chapter 14 Saving the Failed or Failing IT Project
- Chapter 15 Measuring Success Post-Project
- Chapter 16 Next Steps
- Appendix A Business Process Improvement Standards
- Appendix B Project Management Software Considerations
- Appendix C Real-World IT Interviews
- Index
Product information
- Title: PM Crash Course™ for IT Professionals
- Author(s):
- Release date: October 2009
- Publisher(s): Cisco Press
- ISBN: 9781587202780
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