CRC Press Project Management: Best Practices Series (CRC Press Revivals)

Product Description Project Management covers the full range of issues of vital concern to IT managers working in today's hurry-up, budget-conscious business environment. The handbook provides valuable advice and guidance on how to get projects finished on-time, within budget, and to the complete satisfaction of users, whether a high-tech, low-tech, financial, manufacturing, or service organization. Project Management Handbook brings together contributions from an all-star team of more than 40 of experts working at leading enterprise organizations and consulting firms across America, and around the world. With the help of dozens of fascinating and instructive case studies and vignettes, reporting experiences in a wide range of business sectors, those experts share their insights and experience and extrapolate practicable guidelines and actions steps that project managers can put to work on their current projects. Review "The diverse selection of processes selected by the editor indicates the plethora of possible practices that could be used by the project manager…In the IT project management work, project managers need a text like this to provide a guide to a successful project: on time, on budget, and per specifications…the selections gathered by Tinnirello are exceptional and, ….provide the reader with many options to follow depending upon the specific project at hand…Project managers who have access to the book should see an improvement in the dismal success rate of IT projects…They probably will find themselves reaching for this book many times as they encounter new and unusual IT projects. All information technology project managers should obtain this exceptional collection of IT project management solutions and become intimately familiar with its valuable contents." --Ken Rose, in Project Management Journal, June 2001 "The main benefit of this book is the diverse project management subjects that are covered, as well as the diverse subject-matter experts." -Software Quality Professional, Vol. 3, Issue 4, September, 2001 "The breadth of issues covered in this book from risk management to outsourcing to teamwork- is impressive, thus avoiding a "one-size-fits-all" approach to management." -Software Quality Professional, Vol. 3, Issue 4, September, 2001 Promo Copy About the Author Paul C. Tinnirello is currently a Business Engineering and Business Architect Consultant focusing on Entrepreneurial Leadership and Project Management Excellence. He is retired as the Executive Director of the A.M. Best Company Inc, Oldwick NJ, where he worked for over 35 years. A.M. Best Company is the oldest Insurance Rating & Information Provider for the Insurance Industry. Paul's previous experience includes AT&T, DuPont Chemical, IFF and other positions in the electronics industry and academic community. He is a recipient of the NJIT Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award and has published numerous books, articles and papers on Information Technology & Management (see list on Published Works page). Paul has also served on numerous academic advisory boards as well as serving as editorial consultant for leading trade publications in the Information Technology industry. Paul has spent considerable time lecturing at conferences including significant hours instructing at the graduate , undergraduate & secondary levels of education.