Managing Technology Based Projects

A GUIDE TO EFFECTIVE PROJECT MANAGEMENT IN TECHNOLOGY-BASED FIRMS Used effectively, project management can increase a firm’s market share, product quality, and customer satisfaction. Though technology-based companies place themselves at a competitive disadvantage if they neglect this strategic tool, many overlook project management’s benefits because they see themselves as continuously adapting organizations. In reality, this role makes project management even more vital. Managing Technology-Based Projects imparts the latest approaches and tools essential to lead a successful technology-based project. It outlines the practical integration of project management with four key areas: strategic alignment of projects within the enterprise, the project management process and its organizational support system, invaluable tools and techniques, and the individual and group leadership within a project’s organization. Complete with examples of industrial applications, the book includes: Methods for defining key performance indicators and assessing project management process effectiveness Suggestions for fine-tuning and continuous improvement Practical case scenarios, discussion topics, end-of-chapter reviews, and exercises Attention to project management as it applies to a globalized business No one in a managerial role should be without Thamhain’s expert advice. This guidebook is your road map to successfully incorporating enterprise project management into technology-based work.

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Here are comprehensive and proven methods for organizing and successfully managing complex programs and projects. The book examines organizational and interpersonal concepts and provides a detailed, complete project planning and control system with a large number of charts, forms, illustrations, and checklists.

The 5th Edition of Jack Marchewka's Information Technology Project Management focuses on how to create measurable organizational value (MOV) through IT projects. The author uses the concept of MOV, combined with his own research, to create a solid foundation for making decisions throughout the project's lifecycle. The book's integration of project management and IT concepts provides students with the tools and techniques they need to develop in this field.

How to further your company's technology programme is the problem addressed in this book. The author provides sound advice on decision-making and policy-formulation to help your company bring the fruit of its research and development programs to production. Technology has traditionally advanced faster than our ability to manage it. This book, based on studies of over 200 decentralized firms over a period of 30 years, addresses crucial aspects of the R & D and innovation process, and suggests how to make them pay off. It includes a watch list for monitoring technology in the firm to see where problems are occurring and where improvements may be made.

This book is one that every frustrated project manager would like to place on the desk of those who cook-up projects without involving the troops on the ground. Based on the author's experience managing information technology projects in the US and Canada, "The Little Book of Project Wisdom" is a valuable resource and easy to read. It's an essential quick reference guide for new and seasoned project managers, project sponsors, executives, professional services salespeople, and anyone in customer service. Taking a pragmatic look at many of the "unwritten" challenges faced by project personnel, this compact volume offers common-sense approaches to these problems. While the book refers to challenges faced in the IT industry, it's also a valid reference for projects anywhere and in any sector. Sensitive topics such as isolated ivory-tower executives, overzealous salespeople, stress, and remote foreign resources are covered with respect and in good detail. This book is a major revision of "Give Your Project Wings" and has been updated extensively. This work is not a textbook and offers practical, and sometimes entertaining, real-world perspectives on project management beyond the boring project theory books.

Plan, Information Systems Project Management helps you successfully deliver your projects on time, on budget, and with desired results.

While the project management body of knowledge is embraced by disciplines ranging from manufacturing and business to social services and healthcare, the application of efficient project management is of particularly high value in science, technology, and engineering undertakings. STEP Project Management: Guide for Science, Technology, and Engineeri