Buying Complex IT Systems Computer System Procurement for Non-Technical Managers
Record details
- ISBN: 1003823300
- ISBN: 9781003823308
- ISBN: 1003427766
- ISBN: 9781003427766
- ISBN: 1003823289
- ISBN: 9781003823285
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (217 p.)
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electronic resource - Publisher: Milton : Productivity Press, 2023.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Description based upon print version of record. Detecting a Death March |
Formatted Contents Note: | Variations as Risk -- Specifics of Managing Variations -- ""Change Management -- Change Request Forms -- Change Impact Assessment -- Change Approval -- Change Log, Change Request Tracker, and Change Control Plan -- Post-implementation Review -- Internal Communications (and ""PR"") -- Summary -- Chapter 10. Testing -- Where Testing Fits -- Test Environments -- Who Does the Testing? -- How to Test Well -- Signing Off Testing -- Summary -- Chapter 11. Dealing with Failure -- Ten Reasons Why IT Projects Fail -- Detecting Failure -- Understanding What Happened -- Communicating Failure |
Biographical or Historical Data: | Matthew Reynolds is the CEO of "It's What's Next IT", a consultancy and IT support business. He's a 30-year professional within the UK software industry. He has helped scores of SMEs over his career to build and implement better IT systems. He works as a combined "technical project mediator" and expert witness. It's his job to either rescue failed or failing project so that they can deliver the value that was intended in the first place, or to help the business to effectively litigate against suppliers. Matthew wrote his first book on software engineering, Beginning E-commerce in 1999 for Wrox Press. Since, he has authored or co-authored a half-dozen more books for Wrox Press in addition to publishing with O'Reilly and Kogan Page. He was also a columnist for the Guardian and general consumer and business computing, and was also a columnist for ZDNet. |
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Subject: | Management information systems Systèmes d'information de gestion BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Management BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Project Management BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Leadership |