Managing Information Technology ProjectsWith Quality Information Systems, Fatemeh Zahedi cuts through the haze and hype too often found in generic texts on quality. With the precision, thoroughness, and impeccable qualitative orientation demanded from today's information systems professionals, Dr. Zahedi explains quality concepts, how to design them into systems, and how to measure their effectiveness, from inside the ever-more complex and competitive real-world of decision information systems. |
Contents
The Nature of Projects | 1 |
Project versus Ordinary Management | 3 |
The Big Picture | 9 |
Copyright | |
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30 mins achieve activities actual allow analysis application approach Assess baseline Breakdown Structure budget calculated chapter client COBOL complete components configuration management cost data model database defined deliverables delivered dependencies Design detail determine diagram documentation duration effort ensure Entity estimates example factors Feasibility Function Point Gantt chart goals hardware I.T. projects identify implementation individual input installation involved maintenance measure methodology motivation MyWay Organizer normally Object Oriented output package percent performance performance appraisal personal computer phase problems Product Structure Model productivity Project Lifecycle project manager project plan project team Prototype Quality Assurance requirements responsibility risk schedule SDLC senior shown in figure skills specification staff standard statistical process control system development tasks team members techniques testing Tom DeMarco types Waterfall Model Wideband Delphi