PM Crash Program for IT Professionals:
Real-World Undertaking Management Resources and Techniques for IT Initiatives
Sample Chapter from Cisco Press
By Rita Mulcahy
Published by Cisco Press
Series: Networking Technology
Published: Oct 6,
Buy Office Home And Business 2010, 2009
Copyright 2010
Pages: 272
Edition: 1st
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PM Crash Course™ for IT Specialists is full of undertaking management instruments that you can apply immediately to your IT projects—to deliver them on time, on budget, and with fewer headaches. Authored by world-renowned task management trainer Rita Mulcahy, this book will help you get your IT projects back on track using proven, real-world challenge management instruments and strategies. IT specialists often face extremely challenging challenge deployments,
Microsoft Office 2007, 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 challenge management pay little or no attention to the unique challenges IT task managers face.
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” challenge metrics and milestones
• Defining task scope,
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• Identifying and managing stakeholders and expectations
• Choosing the right PM instruments 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 Undertaking 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 Undertaking 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 Task that has Failed
Chapter 5: Measuring Success post Undertaking and Avoiding Career Damaging Errors
Chapter 16: Conclusions and What to Learn Next
Rita Mulcahy,
Microsoft Office 2007 Product Key, PMP, founder and CEO of RMC Task Management, is the most popular project management author in the planet. Since 1991,
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