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Real-World Challenge Management Equipment 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 Professionals is full of task management equipment that you can apply immediately to your IT projects—to deliver them on time, on budget,
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Real-World Issues Covered:
• Understanding why IT projects fail--—and preventing failure
• Defining effective IT undertaking charters and requirements
• Organizing IT roadmaps into manageable projects
• Capturing,
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• Establishing “soft” and “hard” challenge 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 globe of IT project management
Chapter 2: How to Use This Book: how to use the case studies to inform your approach
Chapter 3: Understanding the Task Management Process/ Why IT projects fail
Chapter 4: Defining the Task Charter and Requirements
Chapter 5: Incrementalization: How to break down the IT Roadmap into Projects
Chapter 6: Learning from History: Gaining, Creating and Using Historical Data
Chapter 7: Identifying and Managing Stakeholders
Chapter 8: The Challenge Scope Statement: Key to IT Undertaking 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 Challenge that has Failed
Chapter 5: Measuring Success post Project and Avoiding Career Damaging Errors
Chapter 16: Conclusions and What to Learn Next
Rita Mulcahy, PMP,
Microsoft Windows 7, founder and CEO of RMC Task Management, is the most popular project management author in the world. Since 1991, hundreds of thousands of task managers have utilized her 30+ best-selling books and resources to expand their project management knowledge and further their careers.
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