PM Crash Course for IT Professionals: Real-World Project Management Tools and Techniques for IT Initiatives
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| Rating | : | 4.95 (540 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 158720259X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-05-23 |
| Language | : | English |
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If you are looking for easy-to-use tools and processes to make an immediate impact on your current IT project, "PM Crash Course(TM) for IT Professionals" is the resource for you. 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. 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
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. The authors provide indispensable practical checklists, templates, and exercises to reinforce your learning of these concepts. 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. The book includes dozens of tricks, insights, and contributions from real projec
Martha L. Young is president and founder of Nova Amber, LLC, a virtual business consultancy specializing in business process virtualization strategies and methodologies. She has been engaged in the technology industry for nearly 20 years. Rita Mulcahy, PMP, founder and CEO of RMC Project Management, is the most popular project management author in the world.&nb
"Sadly disappointed" according to Terry N. If you already have a copy of Rita's PMP Exam Prep, you already have the total content for this Cliff Notes version on PMP.If you hope to gain insight into the application of PMP to IT, you will be sadly disappointed. The brief references to IT throughout the 25Sadly disappointed If you already have a copy of Rita's PMP Exam Prep, you already have the total content for this Cliff Notes version on PMP.If you hope to gain insight into the application of PMP to IT, you will be sadly disappointed. The brief references to IT throughout the 253 pages only appear to support the title of the book.If you are enamored by the suggested the use of free online help from a website, the repeated request for entering comments on IT issues seems to be more aligned with collecting research information for the next book than ass. pages only appear to support the title of the book.If you are enamored by the suggested the use of free online help from a website, the repeated request for entering comments on IT issues seems to be more aligned with collecting research information for the next book than ass. PM crash course for IT Professionals helped me to execute our Data Center Expansion Project Yasir Irfan Since I was the Project Manager for our Data Center Expansion project, this book came to me as a great working manual to implement the project. I followed the methodology discussed by the author a management guru Rita Mulcahy (PMP) and I imbibed the methodology into my project which led to successful completion.The book really met the objectives to assist the IT professionals to sharpen their project management skills. The best thing I like about the book is the way Rita explained the essentials of project management and this book can. "succinct indeed" according to W Boudville. The attraction of this book is in how the authors have distilled much of project management into a series of succinct points. Indeed a crash course if you are completely new to the subject. It can also be useful to those already well versed in the field, but who desire a quick refresher.For example, the renowned 6 Sigma gets a 2 page precis in the appendix. So that's what it was all about! The association with Motorola is mentioned, as Moto was the original proponent. Presumably the many travails of Moto's products in recent years was