Information Technology Project Management

"Introduce exciting opportunities and challenges in technology with Schwalbe's INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY PROJECT MANAGEMENT, 8E. This unique book demonstrates principles distinctive to managing information technology (IT). No book offers more insights and software tools for IT project management success, including updates that reflect the latest PMBOK® Guide, 5E. This edition weaves theory with successful practices for an integrated focus on the concepts, tools, and techniques that are most effective today. This is the only text to apply all 10 project management knowledge areas to IT projects. Students master skills in project integration, scope, time, cost, quality, human resource, communications, risk, procurement, and stakeholder management as well as all five process groups -- initiating, planning, executing, monitoring and controlling, and closing. Intriguing examples, MindView software, and a guide to Microsoft® Project 2013 help students refine their marketable skills." -- Publisher's website.

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Cover; Contents; Preface; Chapter 1 Introduction to Project Management; Introduction; What Is a Project?; What Is Project Management?; Program and Project Portfolio Management; The Role of the Project Manager; The Project Management Profession; Chapter Summary; Discussion Questions; Quick Quiz; Quick Quiz Answers; Exercises; Key Terms; Endnotes; Chapter 2 The Project Management and Information Technology Context; A Systems View of Project Management; Understanding Organizations; Focusing on Stakeholder Needs; Project and Product Life Cycles; The Context of Information Technology Projects

Recent Trends Affecting Information Technology Project ManagementChapter Summary; Discussion Questions; Quick Quiz; Quick Quiz Answers; Exercises; Key Terms; Endnotes; Chapter 3 The Project Management Process Groups; Project Management Process Groups; Mapping the Process Groups to the Knowledge Areas; Developing an IT Project Management Methodology; Case Study 1: JWD Consulting's Project Management Intranet Site Project (Predictive Approach); Case Study 2: JWD Consulting's Project Management Intranet Site Project (Agile Approach); Templates by Process Group; Chapter Summary

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