- Paperback: 525 pages
- Publisher: Course Technology; 2nd Revised edition edition (January 2002)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0619035285
- ISBN-13: 978-0619035280
- Product Dimensions: 25.2 x 16.7 x 3.4 cm
- Shipping Weight: 1 Kg
- Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #959,250 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Each and every recent innovation in Information Technology can be traced back to a project: the behind-the-scenes work that, when correctly managed, results in a new system, a new technology, or a new product in the marketplace. Information Technology Project Management, Second Edition, by Kathy Schwalbe builds an unparalleled foundation for tomorrow’s creators and managers by providing meaningful examples of real projects—both successful and failed—and applying the lessons they teach to a sound framework in IT project management.
* Applies the widely-accepted PMBOK set of standards (Project Management Body of Knowledge) to the constantly changing field of information technology.
* Includes a 120-day trial version of Microsoft Project 2000 and, as an appendix, "A Guide to Microsoft Project 2000".
* Features an extensive running case study that puts skills to practice using real-world data taken directly from the files of Northwest Airlines and their highly successful ResNet project.
* End-of-chapter mini cases provide extra real-world reinforcement.
* Excellent preparation for the Project Management Institute’s Project Management Professional (PMP) certification and CompTIA's ITProject+ Certification.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Good book in general with a few buts,
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This review is from: Information Technology Project Management (Paperback)
I agree with most of the reviews in general. I have been using this book as a textbook for a class on Project Management. I enjoy reading the chapters and it gives you a good overview of Project Management and the terms used in it but, that is my issue, it's an overview. I like reading the case studies but frankly I think the assignments at the end of each chapter have many that ask for more detail then the overview content of the book gives. I find this to be an issue with many textbooks. They write the book concisely to cover a whole topic in one textbook hitting the highlights, but write the assignments to be done as if you had been studying the subject in depth.Case in point: Chapter 11 Exercise 5 on page 357. Draft an RFP (Request for Proposal) for purchasing laptops for all students, faculty and staff at your college or university. use the outline provided in Figure 11-4. List all the assumptions you made in preparing the RFP. Sounds like a great assignment, with the exception that an RFP is a very detailed document. In the outline it is also suppose to include a Statement of Work ( a document that should be prepared before an RFP) and schedule information. To do this assignment you basically have to dream up an entire project and do previous prep work in order to write an RFP. Also, this outline is the only example of an RFP in the whole book. There is no example of a completed RFP, after all, this is an "overview" book. I have been researching on the net for sample RFP documents. I have yet to find one that even remotely looks like this outline or follows the criteria in this book. I spend hours and hours every week just doing the prep work to get my head around this random assignments. This book would have been better had it just made the assignments a case study that built from Chapter 1 on, instead of bits and pieces of this kind of project or that. I think I read in the main review that the book uses NWA as a case study to teach, that doesnt even happen till like Chapter 12 or 13. Did this person really read this book?? I don't mind being taught principles of Project Management but don't just hand me terms and principles and sketchy outline examples and expect me to give you the full blown details of a project that I have to make up mostly out of my own head and hope it's right. Projects are team efforts and some of these things asked for would be the product of a whole team's input not just one person yet in assignments it is just the student doing it all as if they were the whole freaking team. This kind of thing annoys me to no end in textbooks. I could give more examples but I am already a partially dissenting voice among reviewers. I guess I could sum it up as a good book to have and read but it is a LOUSY TEXTBOOK.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Better late than never,
This review is from: Information Technology Project Management (with Microsoft Project 2007 CD-ROM) (Paperback)
The first copy didn't arrive after about 2.5 weeks, so the seller sent another copy, which did arrive after about two weeks. As for the book itself, I'll let you know when I'm finished with it.
5.0 out of 5 stars
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This review is from: Information Technology Project Management with Other (Paperback)
the book i got was in a real good condition... hats off to amazon!!! i got it so cheap and initially i thought the condition would not be that good but when i received it, i was simply amazed!!!
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