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Project management for information systems / edited by James Cadle and Donald Yeates.

Contributor(s): Cadle, James | Yeates, Donald.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Upper Saddle River, NJ : Financial Times Prentice Hall, 2004Edition: Fourth edition.Description: xv, 432 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780273685807; 0273685805.Subject(s): System analysis | Management information systems | Information resources management | Project managementAdditional physical formats: Electronic version:.: Project management for information systems.DDC classification: 658.4038011 Also available in electronic form.
Contents:
Managing change -- Business strategy and information systems -- The business case -- The organisational framework -- The programme and project support office -- Development lifecycles and approaches -- The profile of a project -- Project planning: understanding the work -- Project planning: estimating -- Project planning: scheduling and resourcing -- Monitoring progress -- Exercising control -- Reporting progress -- Quality -- Risk management -- Value engineering and value management -- Selling the project -- Managing stakeholders -- Managing suppliers -- Leadership -- Performance management -- Project teams -- Managing the project climate -- The project manager -- Developing your career -- Bodies of knowledge and standards.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Project Management For Information Systems 4th edition "For those studying project management for information systems, this book has no equal."  Roger Atkinson, Bournemouth UniversityBased on practical experience this book provides everything you need to get started on an IS project and to see it through to successful completion, whether you are a student of information systems and project management or a practising project manager.Clear explanation of theory combined with the exploration of a variety of project management methodologies helps the reader develop a thorough understanding of the subject. The mixture of hard and soft topic coverage encourages the development of all the skills needed to successfully manage the team, the individual and the task. Case studies, exercises and good and bad examples from real life help the reader to start putting the theory into context and into practice. This edition contains the most up-to-date thinking on issues such as: Multinational and multicultural projects. Establishing the business case for your project. The latest initiatives in quality, soft systems, extreme programming and virtual teams. Project Management for Information Systems is all you need to plan every aspect of an IS project and ensure that it is implemented on time, within budget and to quality standards. www.booksites.net/cadle James Cadle is a director of Assist Knowledge Development and an independent consultant in IT analysis and project management. Donald Yeates is an independent consultant and an associate client director at Henley Management College.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Managing change -- Business strategy and information systems -- The business case -- The organisational framework -- The programme and project support office -- Development lifecycles and approaches -- The profile of a project -- Project planning: understanding the work -- Project planning: estimating -- Project planning: scheduling and resourcing -- Monitoring progress -- Exercising control -- Reporting progress -- Quality -- Risk management -- Value engineering and value management -- Selling the project -- Managing stakeholders -- Managing suppliers -- Leadership -- Performance management -- Project teams -- Managing the project climate -- The project manager -- Developing your career -- Bodies of knowledge and standards.

CIT Module INFO 8002 - Core reading.

CIT Module INFO 8003 - Core reading.

Also available in electronic form.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • 1 Managing change
  • 2 Business strategy and information systems
  • 3 The business case
  • 4 The organisational framework
  • 5 The programme and project support office
  • 6 Development lifecycles and approaches
  • 7 The profile of a project
  • 8 Project planning: understanding the work
  • 9 Project planning: estimating
  • 10  Project planning: scheduling and resourcing
  • 11 Monitoring progress
  • 12 Exercising control
  • 13 Reporting progress
  • 14 Quality
  • 15 Risk management
  • 16 Value engineering and value management
  • 17 Selling the project
  • 18 Managing stakeholders
  • 19 Managing suppliers
  • 20 Leadership
  • 21 Performance management
  • 22 Project teams
  • 23 Managing the project climate
  • 24 The project manager
  • 25 Developing your career
  • 26 Bodies of knowledge and standards

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