PM Crash Course for IT Specialists:
Real-World Task Management Equipment and Methods for IT Initiatives
Sample Chapter from Cisco Press
By Rita Mulcahy
Published by Cisco Press
Series: Networking Technology
Published: Oct 6,
Windows Seven, 2009
Copyright 2010
Pages: 272
Edition: 1st
(See attached PDF to access the sample chapter)
PM Crash Course™ for IT Professionals is full of undertaking management instruments that you can apply immediately to your IT projects—to deliver them on time, on budget,
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Windows 7 Starter, this book will help you get your IT projects back on track using proven, real-world undertaking management instruments and methods. IT experts often face extremely challenging challenge deployments,
Office 2010 Serial Number, as well as initiatives that are mission-critical to their organizations. For IT project managers, a strong understanding of the discipline of undertaking management can be invaluable—both to success with individual projects and to their overall careers. However, most books and training materials on undertaking management pay little or no attention to the unique challenges IT project managers face.
Real-World Issues Covered:
• Understanding why IT projects fail--—and preventing failure
• Defining effective IT challenge charters and requirements
• Organizing IT roadmaps into manageable projects
• Capturing, creating, and using historical data
• Establishing “soft” and “hard” undertaking metrics and milestones
• Defining project scope,
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• 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
Chapter 1: Before You Read This Book: Introduction to the world of IT undertaking 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 Undertaking 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 Task Scope Statement: Key to IT Challenge 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 Undertaking that has Failed
Chapter 5: Measuring Success post Project and Avoiding Career Damaging Errors
Chapter 16: Conclusions and What to Learn Next
Rita Mulcahy, PMP, founder and CEO of RMC Task Management, is the most popular undertaking 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 task management knowledge and further their careers.
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