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Titanic's maiden voyage was a disaster waiting to happen as a result of the compromises made in the project. This book explores how non-IT executives can take lessons from a nuts-and-bolts construction project like Titanic and use those lessons to ensure the right approach to developing on-line operations. Looking at this historical project as a model cuts away the layers of IT jargon and complexity. Avoiding Project Disaster is about delivering IT projects in a world where on-time and on-budget is not enough. It will help you successfully maneuver through the ice floes of IT project management in an industry with a notoriously high project failure rate. This book outlines the stages involved in creating mission critical services and the underlying environment to support these. Specifically, the book provides the non-technical manager a step-by-step guide to the deliverables that the IT department should produce at each stage of the creation process. The book enlightens the non-technical manager to the fact that a considerable part of the effort is in realigning the organization and procedures rather than technology. Knowing the rationale for and the timing of deliverables enables the non-IT manager to be a full participant in the creation process. The book leaves the reader with a simple philosophy: namely, focus your IT investments on getting your organization and procedures aligned and you can get best-in-class results from your technology. The book uses close to 90 figures and more than 40 tables for clarification of major concepts through detailed models, e.g., Change Management (9-step model) and Problem Management (4-step model).

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Book category Books in English Economics, finance, business & management Business & management Management & management techniques

• Full title: Avoiding Project Disaster
• Subtitle: Titanic Lessons for It Executives
• Author: Mark Kozak-Holland
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 312
• EAN: 9781895186734
• ISBN: 9781895186734
• ID: 08859911
• Publisher: Multi-Media Publications Inc
• Weight: 544 g
• Dimensions: 254 × 178 × 17 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. July 2006

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