Project management for modern information systems

• Main Author: Brandon, Dan, 1946-
• Corporate Author: IGI Global.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Ave., Hershey, PA, 17033, USA), c2006.
• Subjects: Project management.; Management information systems.
• Online Access: View fulltext via EzAccess

"This book describes and illustrates practices, procedures, methods, and tools for IT project management that address project success for modern times"--Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents:

• 1. Today's IT environment
• 2. Critical success factors for IT projects
• 3. Project selection and initiation
• 4. The project management discipline
• 5. The software engineering discipline
• 6. Project overall planning
• 7. Developing the schedule and cost plan
• 8. Risk planning and management
• 9. Project execution and control
• 10. Managing quality
• 11. Change and closeout management
• 12. Procurement and outsourcing
• 13. Stakeholder management
• 14. Performance reporting and earned value analysis
• 15. Software systems for project management
• 16. Managing multiple projects.