IT Project Management Essentials, with CD-ROM, 2007 Edition

by Larry Webber, Frederick Webber

• What Is IT Project Management?: Six Project Management Elements; Project Management Basic Activities; Three Management Levels; Evaluating Project Viability; Developing the Twenty Questions; Some Project Management Advantages and Limitations
• Defining a Project: Project Initiation-Taking the First Step; Assembling a Project Notebook; Assembling a Project Charter; Project Definition and Scope; Defining Assumptions; Risk Management Plan; Developing a Work Breakdown Schedule; Developing a Responsibility Matrix; Project Scope Verification; Project Steering Committee
• Task Planning and Sequencing: Creating a Work Breakdown Structure; WBS Techniques; Numbering for Future Identification; Resource Planning
• Build a Plan: Visualize What Is Needed; Team Members Required; Equipment (Machines); Materials; Process (Method);Planning the End-Game Now; Management Involvement
• Time Estimation Guidelines: Function Point Analysis Overview; COCOMO; Add Administrative Tasks to the Plan; Time Estimation Pitfalls
• Schedule Development: Linking Tasks; Developing a Schedule; Milestones; Project Administration Time; Gantt Charts; PERT/CPM Techniques; Refining a Schedule
• Budget Development: Budgets Begin with Cost Estimates; Creating Cost Estimates; Refining Cost Estimates; Converting Estimates into a Budget; Revising a Budget
• Risk Analysis: Risk and Opportunity Are Two Sides of the Same Coin; Developing a Risk Management Plan; Categorizing Risk; Working the Critical Risks; Risk Mitigation
• Controlling Quality: Quality Process Definition; Controlling the Quality Effort; ContinuousImprovement
• Managing Stakeholders:Stakeholder Planning; Identifying Stakeholders; Typical Stakeholders; Meet the Stakeholders!; Stakeholder Communications; Stakeholder Communications Plan
• Project Management Office Processes and Tools: How to Do It; Project Portfolio Management; Processes and Tools; Resource Management; Project Status Reporting; Training; Reference Library
• A Balanced Scorecard Approach to Project Management: Project Documentation Essentials; Documentation Format; PMO Reference Library; Potential Project Documents; Project Scope and Definition Planning; Project Execution; Vendor Management
• Lean Six Sigma Applied to Project Management: Lean Processes Defined; Six Sigma-A Quick Primer; Traditional Six Sigma; Process Analysis Tool Chest; Design for Six Sigma
• Business Continuity Planning: Identify the Critical Processes; Identify Risks (Threats); Develop Action Plans to Reduce These Risks; Writing a Plan; Sources of Additional Information
• Project Information Security: Adding Information Security to a Project; Risk Assessment; Information Security Processes; Information Security Plan; Offsite Support; Sources of Further Information
• Legal Issues: Guiding the Project Through the Compliance Minefield; Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act; Sarbanes-Oxley Act; SEC Rules; Committee of Sponsoring Organizations; Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act; Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act of 2003; Canadian Budget Measures Act; Canadian Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act
• PRINCE2 The UK Standard: What Is PRINCE2?; PRINCE2 Is Product Focuses; PRINCE2's Eight-Step Process; Strengths and Weaknesses of PRINCE2; Certification in PRINCE2; How Does PRINCE2 Compare to PMI's PMBOK?
• Capability Maturity ModelTM: Background; Five Levels of CMMI; Rating a Company's CMMI Level; Using CMMI in Your Organization
• Theory of Constraints: The Basics of Critical Chain Management; The Problem with Time Estimates; Project Management the Constraints Way; Executing a Project Using TOC; Software Tools
• Managing a Troubled Project: Don't Panic-Is There Really a Problem?; Call in the Project Director!; Diagnosing the Problem(s)

578 pages, Paperback

First published December 19, 2006