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Project Management
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Project Management covers the full range of issues of vital concern to IT managers working in today's hurry-up, budget-conscious business environment. The handbook provides valuable advice and guidance on how to get projects finished on-time, within budget, and to the complete satisfaction of users, whether a high-tech, low-tech, financial, manufacturing, or service organization. Project Management Handbook brings together contributions from an all-star team of more than 40 of experts working at leading enterprise organizations and consulting firms across America, and around the world. With the help of dozens of fascinating and instructive case studies and vignettes, reporting experiences in a wide range of business sectors, those experts share their insights and experience and extrapolate practicable guidelines and actions steps that project managers can put to work on their current projects.
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Index
A
Acceptance testing standards, for outsourced systems development of large-scale projects, 216–217
ALAP, see As late as possible
Analyst, 106–108
Applications system maintenance
activities required for, 225–226
definition of, 225
outsourcing of
benefits of, 225–228
contract, 230–231
level of service, 228–230, 232
recommendations regarding, 231–232
staffing benefits, 226–227
steps for initiating, 229–230
supplier selection, 227–228, 232
ASAP, see As soon as possible
As late as possible, task classified as, 6–7
As soon as possible, task classified as, 6
Audit, of outsourcing services
company rights to, 262–263
external, 266–267
internal, 266
third-party, 266–267
user-controlled authority, 267
B
Back-end processing, for systems integration, 362
Baselines
definition of, 7
in project scheduling, 7
Best-efforts clause, 290
BPR, see Business process reengineering
Budget variances, 9
Business process reengineering
approaches to
difficulties in measuring effectiveness of, 346
intuitive, 346
methodological, 345–346, 350–353
characteristics of, 345
definition of, 345
Rapid Re methodological approach to, 350–353
recommendations, 353–354
tools for
categories of, 347–348
characteristics of, 347
contextual issues, 349
selection criteria, 348–349
C
C++, 367–368
CASE tools
assessment of, 442
in quality initiative program, 442
Certification, of externally developed software
elements of, 248
external interface assurances, 253
Federal Information Processing Standard 102 publication, 248
financial assurances, 251–252
logical environment assurances, 252–253
operations assurances, 252
organizational process assurances
external audit, 250
ISO 9000, 2...
Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Introduction
- Section I Project Management Essentials
- Section II Managing Business Relationships
- Section III Effectively Managing Outsourced Projects
- Section IV Managing Special Projects
- Section V Measuring and Improving Project Management Success
- About the Editor
- Index