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PM Crash Course for IT Experts:
Real-World Project Management Tools and Tactics for IT Initiatives
Sample Chapter from Cisco Press
 
By Rita Mulcahy
Published by Cisco Press
Series: Networking Technology
Published: Oct 6, 2009
Copyright 2010
Pages: 272
Edition: 1st
 
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PM Crash Course™ for IT Experts is full of project management equipment 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,Office Ultimate 2007, this book will help you get your IT projects back on track using proven, real-world challenge management equipment and tactics. IT pros often face extremely challenging project deployments,Cheap Windows 7 Starter, as well as initiatives that are mission-critical to their organizations. For IT challenge managers,Microsoft Office Home And Business, a strong understanding of the discipline of task management can be invaluable—both to success with individual projects and to their overall careers. However,Office 2010 Home And Business Key, most books and training materials on task management pay little or no attention to the unique challenges IT project 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” 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
 
Table of Contents
Chapter 1:  Before You Read This Book: Introduction to the entire world of IT task management
Chapter 2:  How to Use This Book: how to use the case studies to inform your approach
Chapter 3:  Understanding the Challenge 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,Cheap Office 2010 Key, 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 Undertaking that has Failed
Chapter 5: Measuring Success post Challenge and Avoiding Career Damaging Errors
Chapter 16: Conclusions and What to Learn Next
 
Rita Mulcahy, PMP, founder and CEO of RMC Project Management, is the most popular challenge management author in the globe. Since 1991, hundreds of thousands of undertaking managers have utilized her 30+ best-selling books and resources to expand their task management knowledge and further their careers.
 
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