Effective IT Project Management takes you step-by-step through the completion of an IT project, showing you how to plan, implement, manage, and organize both simple and complicated hardware and software projects. Using a project management life cycle approach in line with the methods espoused by the Project Management Institute (PMI), you'll learn indispensable tips for how to:
* Organize the project
* Establish the scope
* Calculate both expected and hidden costs and risks
* Design the work breakdown structure
* Manage the implementation team
* Evaluate different possible solutions
* Create a working Project Requirements Document (PRD), Design Document, and other measurable forms
This book provides a complete system for successfully completing any type of IT project on time and under budget. By following the processes outlined in the book, you'll discover simple procedures for setting schedules, overcoming difficult challenges, getting new team members on board quickly, designation roles and responsibilities, establishing budgets, and measuring each state of the project management life cycle.
Keeping the big picture in view while illustrating how to divide complex tasks into manageable chunks, Effective IT Project Management guides you all the way through the project, from establishing a team, to producing a schedule, anticipating hidden costs, creating required documents, developing user manuals, overseeing quality assurance, and monitoring the project in a commercial environment.
Filled with proven strategies that will help simplify even the most complicated It project, Effective It Project management is a complete blueprint for achieving IT project success.