Managing Information Technology

418 Part III • Acquiring Information Systems methodology, so they have difficulty recreating their ratio- nales. Good training i ...

Chapter 11 • IT Project Management 419 workers who will be using the new software need to be selected with the help of the proje ...

420 Part III • Acquiring Information Systems A D B CG F H 6 10 4 3 5 (^73) 2 2 3 I E Critical Path = ACGHI (19 days) FIGURE 11.6 ...

Chapter 11 • IT Project Management 421 FIGURE 11.7 Gantt Chart Example (Reprinted from Brewer et al., 2010) Although projects va ...

422 Part III • Acquiring Information Systems FIGURE 11.9 Request for Change Form Example. (Reprinted from Brewer, Jeffrey L. and ...

Chapter 11 • IT Project Management 423 Recent research also suggests that all IT projects experience fluctuations in momentum, b ...

424 Part III • Acquiring Information Systems Avoidance Strategy: An alternative technical approach to a problem may be chosen in ...

Chapter 11 • IT Project Management 425 embrace the need for this change. To help motivate them, a work environment in which it i ...

426 Part III • Acquiring Information Systems leadership of their change-readiness unit, individual workers were assigned to inst ...

Chapter 11 • IT Project Management 427 FIGURE 11.13 Project Size Impacts Project Risk [Based on Nelson, 2005; Nelson, 2007; Saue ...

428 Part III • Acquiring Information Systems For example, a multinational company may assign some of their own IT workers based ...

Chapter 11 • IT Project Management 429 Behavior Dos and Don'ts Dos: Be proactive, be positive, respect, celebrate success, be co ...

430 Part III • Acquiring Information Systems Review Questions 1.Describe the difference between project management and program m ...

Chapter 11 • IT Project Management 431 Bibliography Brewer, Jeffrey L., and Kevin C. Dittman. 2010. Methods of IT project manage ...

432 CASE STUDY III-1 Managing a Systems Development Project at Consumer and Industrial Products, Inc. Late Friday afternoon, T. ...

We concluded that our role was to pay the resulting bills, and that we should not be holding the other departments’ hands to mak ...

divides the development into eight phases: initial study, detailed study, draft requirements study, outline physical design, tot ...

Case Study III-1 • Managing a Systems Development Project at Consumer and Industrial Products, Inc. 435 Data Center Systems Deve ...

schedule,” Watkins explains.^1 She developed the project plans, determined what each phase would cost, managed the budget, invol ...

Case Study III-1 • Managing a Systems Development Project at Consumer and Industrial Products, Inc. 437 Recap Hours/Dollars Init ...