Rethinking Enterprise Software Risk: Controlling the Main Risk Factors on It Projects - Softcover

Snapp, Shaun

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1939731305 ISBN 13: 9781939731302

Publisher: Scm Focus, 2014

Synopsis

A Book That Answers Important Questions on the Topic of Risk

Software implementation is risky business and success is not a certainty. But you can reduce risk with the strategies in this book.
 
Undertaking software selection and implementation without approximating the project's risk is a poor way to make decisions about either projects or software. But that's the way many companies do business, even though 50 percent of IT implementations are deemed failures.
 
In this book you will review the strategies commonly used by most companies for mitigating software project risk--and learn why these strategies don't work--and then acquire practical and realistic strategies that will help you to maximize success on your software implementation.

About this title

From the Inside Flap

The Book's Orientation
The type and quality of information provided by various entities is a touchy subject because, as I point out in this book, usually this information is intended more to improve the condition of the information provider than the receiver. Not many authors are interested in courting controversy, and this is why I believe no book like this has yet been written. Certainly, other books that describe different dimensions of the problem of risk management are also good to read. However, managing a project's risk is about more than the tactical elements of how to estimate risk. Reducing the risk of software implementations and increasing the probability of success means doing some nonconformist thinking. I provide all the information in this book; as the reader all you have to do is consider the logic of what I have written and be open to the message. If you do that, you will be far ahead of your counterparts who are not open to different thinking and are simply following the consensus viewpoint.

A Book Based in Reality

The book provides many examples from real life project experiences, the emphasis being on the reality of ERP projects.

Interconnected to Web Information

In order the keep the book at a manageable and easily readable length, the book also provides numerous links out to the SCM Focus site, where supporting articles allow readers to get into more detail on topics that interest them.

Edition details

• Publisher: Scm Focus
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1939731305
• ISBN 13: 9781939731302
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176