Breakthrough technology project management

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Breakthrough technology project management

Bennet P. Lientz, Kathryn Rea

Academic Press, 1999

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Description

Providing tangible guidelines through examples and suggestions, this text aims to help people participate in and manage projects more effectively. It illustrates how to carry out collaborative scheduling and planning for large-scale computer systems projects, and offers direction on how to deal with a project crisis and how to turn around a failing project. Examples from computing banking, manufacturing, insurance, government, medical care, transportation, retailing and distribution are contained in the text as well as specific chapters on wide area networks, intranets, client-server systems and large integrated software packages are included.

Table of Contents

  • Improving the project management process: developing your project management process and strategy
  • managing multiple projects and the project slate. Developing your project plans: the project concept
  • the right project leader
  • building the project team
  • developing the project plan. Managing and tracking projects: effective project tracking and co-ordination
  • business issues
  • personnel issues
  • technical issues
  • vendor and contractor issues. Managing specific types of projects: software development
  • operations, maintenance and enhancement
  • software package
  • technology projects.

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