How to Cheat at IT Project Management

Description:

Unlike any other book you’ll find, this IT project management book synthesizes project management fundamentals, IT processes and procedures, and business fundamentals. Learn how to align your IT projects to the company’s strategic objectives. Also learn how to determine which project will solve the right problem at the right time while still delivering high-quality results. You’ll become an expert in fine-tuning the work process to ensure projects are completed on time, under budget, and with the required functionality and features. If you’ve ever wondered how to get on the fast track to CIO…you might just be holding the answer in your hands.

 

• Align IT Projects with Corporate Strategy
  Run your IT department more like a business and use IT projects to support or extend the corporate mission.
• Navigate Corporate Politics
  Develop the skills you need to succeed in a political environment, even if you really dislike company politics.
• Effectively Manage Your IT Project Team
  Master the complexities of managing teams of people with different work styles, languages, cultures, and generations.
• Define and Design Successful IT Projects
  Learn the seven major steps of the project management process: define, organize, form the team, plan, manage, track, and close the project.
• Build High-Quality Projects from the Ground Up
  Deliver higher quality project results using consistent, repeatable, easy-to-use steps.
• Create a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
  Delineate the work to be accomplished and identify task owner, entry/exit criteria, and completion criteria.
• Mitigate “Scope Creep” in Your Projects
  Continually analyze proposed changes to projects and avoid the ripple effect of making unnecessary changes or additions to the scope of your projects.
• Manage IT Project Risk, Change, and Variance
  Incorporate new tools and techniques to manage the risks that change and variance inject into your IT project.
• Complete a Project Audit
  Examine your project’s goals, achievements, deliverables, and metrics against compliance with scope, time, cost, and quality requirements.