Unmasking Project Management

The Business Perspective of Information Systems Success

C. Moraveck

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2013
• ISBN:
  9781137356260
• Topic: Commerce
• Subtopic: Opérations

Unmasking Project Management helps professionals in information technology (IT) and business identify successful approaches to management of information systems (MIS) that will work for their organizations and projects.

INDEX

accounting systems, 51, 58, 69, 71, 75, 192

aging computer systems, 20, 24, 27–9, 73–4

Ahituv, N., 49, 50, 69

Amescua, Antonio de, 55–6

application service providers (ASPs), 51–2, 199

Arne, P. H., 10, 61–2

Askounis, D., 58

assistant project managers, 39

Avolio, B. J., 189–90

back-office support systems, 71–2, 75, 116, 198

Balance Scorecard (BSC) model, 203–4, 215–16

bar coding, 68

Barrier, T., 67

Bass, B. M., 189–90, 208

Belout, A., 94

Benton, J. E., 40, 108

Bhatt, G. D., 200

boundaries, system, 50, 77–8, 223

bread-and-butter systems, 71–2, 75, 116, 198

Bryde, D. J., 54

budget cycles, 14, 17–18, 62–3, 95, 204

business initiatives, 23–31, 223

aging computer systems, 27–9

evolving technology, 29–31

identifying, 93, 141

legislative mandates, 25, 26–7

vague, 14

value chain, 24–6

business intelligence model, 23

business process improvement initiatives (BPIIs), 200

business strategies, 223

centralization/decentralization and, 106–7, 109, 110, 127

collaboration and, 82, 94, 107, 109, 165, 224

commercial software and, 17, 28–9, 43–4, 45–6, 57, 59, 72

defined, 22–3

government agency structure and, 36, 108, 111, 123

importance of, 16, 18–19, 38, 53, 87, 93–...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• One  Introduction
• Two  Organization and Forces of Information Systems Change
• Three  From Visions to Information Systems Projects
• Four  Avoiding Some Common Problems
• Five  Stakeholder Management and IT Governance
• Six  Middle Space
• Seven  The Career Path and Working within the Organization
• Eight  The Project Manager
• Nine  Critical Success Factors and Project Success
• Ten  Measuring Project Success
• Eleven  The Essentials of Good Management Practices
• Appendix A: Request for Proposal (RFP) Table of Contents
• Appendix B: Contractual Agreement Table of Contents
• Bibliography
• Index