Leading IT Projects

Senior level IT managers are responsible for a wide variety of development projects. For the most part, these individual projects are handled by project managers. However, IT managers must be conversant in the field of project management. Additionally, they must understand the dynamics of managing the project manager and be familiar with the skill sets.

Leading IT Projects: The IT Manager’s Guide provides a detailed roadmap for project success. The book provides information on the technical aspects of project management and also focuses on the human side of project management—leadership skills, team building, and promoting creativity. Overall, it facilitates an extensive understanding of the planning, monitoring, and control of the people, process, and events that occur as a computer system evolves from preliminary concept to operational implementation.

Using ready-to-use forms and templates, this valuable resource enables you to increase productivity and ensures that projects come in on time and within budget.

Features

• Provides a complete tutorial on project management
• Emphasizes planning, monitoring, and controlling the people, processes, and events that occur as IT systems evolve
• Contains eight reference guides, including a complete IT metric reference and sample project plan
• Explains how to manage multiple projects with a project management office
• Includes 61 project management forms, 9 Excel spreadsheets, and 3 Microsoft project templates on a companion website