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Information Systems Project Management
- David Avison - ESSEC Business School, Cergy-Pontoise, France
- Gholamreza Torkzadeh - University of Nevada Las Vegas, USA
November 2008 | 496 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
Until now, books available for information systems project management focused either on information technology or production and operations. Information Systems Project Management reflects new thinking about the need for balance between technology topics and production-operations issues needed to manage successful IS projects.
1. Introducing Information Systems Project Management
2. Aligning the Information Systems Project with Organizational Goals
3. Using an Information Systems Development Methodology
4. Defining Project Scope
5. Estimating Project Costs and Benefits
6. Managing Information Systems Project Time and Resources
7. Leading Information Systems Projects
8. Developing the Project Plan
9. Forming the Project Team
10. Assessing Project Risk
11. Outsourcing and Offshoring Information Systems Projects
12. Ensuring Project Quality
13. Measuring Project Success
14. Closing the Project
This book provides a good support for project management courses. It focuses on IS projects which makes it more specific. I would recommend to use it in PM courses with focus on IS, but not in specialized Information Systems Development courses. Information related to IS development methodologies and exercises using MS Project are rather limited. Nonetheless, the book is a good source for further reading.
Faculty of Business Admin and Economic, Viadrina European University
December 17, 2015
I found this to book to be a highly essential guide that aligns with the course that i am delivering. I will be putting title forward to be a core text
Business, South Devon College
September 16, 2015
not enough backgroud on project management tools (MS Project or Oracle's Primavera)
Informationsmanagement & Wirtschaftsinformatik, University of Osnabruck
June 18, 2013
Methodology in this book is treated as systems development methodology, instead of project management methodology, which makes the focus too narrow for an IS/IT course. Agile is only given a cursory couple of pages, and some of the other sections are patchy.
School of Computing and Informatics, Nottingham Trent University
December 20, 2011
I think it is a good and thorough book, especially since it covers and exemplifies the use of a modern project management tool and talks about risks in an IS project. However, it is also a bit too much for our new beginners.
We might take it under new consideration in the future, since we have a special course on project management. I will give the book to the teacher in question.
Department of Informatics, Lund University
September 23, 2010
