| In the past, project success has been defined too narrowly as simply meeting time and cost constraints for a given scope of work. However, in order for an IT project to be completely successful that basic definition of success needs to be extended to include meeting return on investment expectations, product quality, stakeholder satisfaction, security, maintainability and adaptability. Also, the formal methods and tools of the project management discipline need to evolve to address the changes in modern software engineering and our high-tech global workplaces. With this broader and more appropriate definition of success, IT project management techniques and tools can be modernized, extended, and otherwise focused to be more effective. Project Management for Modern Information Systems describes and illustrates practices, procedures, methods, and tools for IT project management that address this extended definition of project success for modern times.
This book describes and illustrates practices, methods, and tools for IT project management that address this extended definition of project success for modern times. As such, this book is directed to IT project managers, those IT personnel aspiring to become project managers, and also to experienced IT personnel who wish to learn of new project management concepts, methods, and tools. This book is also designed foruse as a textbook or reference in graduate or upper-level undergraduate university programs in IT or project management. Throughout the book, a number of IT project management “standard forms” are presented and a number of spreadsheet models are also developed. An open source general Web-based project management software system (FiveAndDime) is used to illustrate many of the methods and applications discussed in the book. An appendix of the book contains a glossary of the IT project management and software engineering terms and acronyms used.
About the Author Dan Brandon obtained a BS from Case Western Reserve University, an MS, and PhD in Engineering University of Connecticut; his PhD specialization was in computer methods. Before returning to the university environment, Dr. Brandon accumulated over thirty years of commercial experience in both the IT technical and management arenas. He is currently a Professor of Information Technology Management (ITM) and chairperson of that department at Christian Brothers University (CBU) in Memphis, TN. He has been published in a number of books, journals, and conference proceedings. He is a member of the Society of Information Management (SIM), the Information Resource Management Association (IRMA), and the Project Management Institute (PMI). He continues to do consulting with a number of companies both locally and internationally. Currently he is involved in the design and development of comprehensive open source software systems for project management and other business applications. |