Introduction to IT Project Management

Cynthia Snyder, Frank Parth

ISBN 10: 1567261787 / ISBN 13: 9781567261783

Published by Management Concepts, Inc, US, 2006

About this Item

Introduction to IT Project Management provides IT project managers with the practical tools needed to maintain daily operations while managing multiple projects. This valuable reference helps IT project managers, CIOs, and project sponsors understand the IT project environment so that projects can be managed much more efficiently and successfully. Topics include: . How projects assist an organization in meeting its strategic objectives . The discipline of project management and its role in organizations . Initiating and planning projects . Estimating project cost and time requirements . Determining availability of resources . Analyzing relevant risks . Developing a realistic, final schedule or budget . Selecting a competent project team . Identifying stakeholders and defining their quality parameters and communication needs . Monitoring and controlling projects . Change management . Project audit and closure PLUS - You'll follow a case study and IT examples throughout the text that demonstrate how key concepts are applied in practice. Also included are suggested forms and techniques for using software.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Introduction to IT Project Management
• Publisher: Management Concepts, Inc, US
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1567261787
• ISBN 13: 9781567261783
• Binding: Hardback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 1142 grams

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Synopsis

Introduction to IT Project Management provides IT project managers the practical tools needed to maintain daily operations while managing multiple projects. This valuable reference helps IT project managers, CIOs, and project sponsors understand the IT project environment so that projects can be managed much more efficiently and successfully. An instructor’s guide is available.

About the Author

Cynthia Snyder, PMP, MBA, is a professional project management consultant, instructor, and author. She provides consulting and training services to government and private industry. Her consulting focuses on project management maturity, PMO
startups, and positioning project management as a core competency for organizations. Cyndi has experience in training in the corporate, public, and academic environment.
Clients have included IBM, Kaiser, Toyota, and Southern California Edison. In an
academic environment, she has taught online and in the classroom for UC Irvine,
CalTech, and USC. She has written two books on project management and has been the technical editor on
many others.

Frank Parth, MS, MSSM, MBA, PMP, is the President of Project Auditors, LLC, a project management consulting, training, and auditing company. After ending a career in aerospace as the assistant technical director on a $12 billion satellite program, he branched out in 1993 and began consulting in technology management to major U.S. companies, national governments, and the U.N. He was CTO for a small but successful e-commerce company, headed up systems engineering at TRW Information Systems during a major infrastructure upgrade, and created PMOs for several major corporations. He taught systems analysis and management at the Graduate School at the University of Southern California, has been an instructor at the University of California, Irvine PM Certificate program since 1994, and has taught at the Claremont Graduate School. Mr. Parth has undergraduate and graduate degrees in physics, a master’s in systems management from USC, and an MBA from the Peter F. Drucker Graduate.