Avoiding Project Disaster - Titanic Lessons for It Executives (Paperback, 2nd ed.)

Titanic's maiden voyage was a disaster waiting to happen as a result of the compromises made in the project. This book explores how non-IT executives can take lessons from a nuts-and-bolts construction project like Titanic and use those lessons to ensure the right approach to developing on-line operations. Looking at this historical project as a model cuts away the layers of IT jargon and complexity. Avoiding Project Disaster is about delivering IT projects in a world where on-time and on-budget is not enough. It will help you successfully maneuver through the ice floes of IT project management in an industry with a notoriously high project failure rate. This book outlines the stages involved in creating mission critical services and the underlying environment to support these. Specifically, the book provides the non-technical manager a step-by-step guide to the deliverables that the IT department should produce at each stage of the creation process. The book enlightens the non-technical manager to the fact that a considerable part of the effort is in realigning the organization and procedures rather than technology. Knowing the rationale for and the timing of deliverables enables the non-IT manager to be a full participant in the creation process. The book leaves the reader with a simple philosophy: namely, focus your IT investments on getting your organization and procedures aligned and you can get best-in-class results from your technology. The book uses close to 90 figures and more than 40 tables for clarification of major concepts through detailed models, e.g., Change Management (9-step model) and Problem Management (4-step model).

General

Imprint:	Multi-Media Publications Inc
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Lessons from History
Release date:	July 2006
First published:	July 2006
Authors:	Mark Kozak-Holland
Dimensions:	254 x 178 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	312
Edition:	2nd ed.
ISBN-13:	978-1-895186-73-4
Categories:	Books > Business & Economics > Business & management > Management & management techniques > Project management
LSN:	1-895186-73-0
Barcode:	9781895186734

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