PM Crash Course For IT Professionals: Real-World Project Management Tools And Techniques For IT Initiatives

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IT projects are not only immensely challenging and mission-critical, but are often prone to failure due to poor project management. For IT professionals, 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 project management pay little or no attention to the unique challenges IT project managers face. But now, there is a guide to project management written specifically for IT professionals. Authored by world-renowned project management author and trainer Rita Mulcahy, PM Crash Course™ for IT Professionals teaches IT project management through specific examples and case study-like interviews with IT project management executives. This revolutionary Course in a Book® starts with the basics of IT project management, including planning, scoping, scheduling, budgeting, and more. Then, it moves beyond the basics to cover a number of real-world project management tools and techniques for IT initiatives–like defining IT project charters and requirements, breaking down IT roadmaps into manageable pieces, capturing and using historical data, identifying and managing stakeholders, defining IT project scope, and more. If you are looking for easy-to-use tools and processes to make an immediate impact on your current IT project, order a copy of PM Crash Course™ for IT Professionals today! Salient Features By Rita Mulcahy, the world's #1 project management trainer, and author of the top-selling PMP certification guide Packed with expert guidance and Tips of the Trade for IT pros: scheduling, budgets, managing scope, stakeholders, and expectations, and more Table Of Conttents Before You Read This Book: Introduction to the world of IT project management How to Use This Book: how to use the case studies to inform your approach Understanding the Project Management Process/ Why IT projects fail Incrementalization: How to break down the IT Roadmap into Projects Learning from History: Gaining, Creating and Using Historical Data Identifying and Managing Stakeholders The Project Scope Statement: Key to IT Project Success Preventing Scope Creep: The Work Breakdown Structure and WBS Dictionary Estimating in the Real-World of Business Real-World Scheduling: or What to do when things go really wrong Communications Management Preventing Problems: Identifying and Managing Risk Measuring Success post Project and Avoiding Career Damaging Errors Conclusions and What to Learn Next