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IT Success!: Towards a New Model for Information Technology

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Description for IT Success!: Towards a New Model for Information Technology Paperback. "Fifty years after the birth of corporate computing, IT today is still characterized by 50-70# project failure rates. Which is pretty scary when you come to think of it: either a goblin has cast a spell on a whole profession - or that profession is doing something fundamentally wrong". Num Pages: 182 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: UMZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 190 x 13. Weight in Grams: 348.
“Fifty years after the birth of corporate computing, IT today is still characterized by 50-70% project failure rates. Which is pretty scary when you come to think of it: either a goblin has cast a spell on a whole profession – or that profession is doing something fundamentally wrong”.

IT Success! challenges the widespread assumption that an IT department is like a building contractor whose project managers, architects and engineers (all construction industry terms…) are supposed to deliver systems on schedule, within budget and to spec. Michael Gentle explains why this is not possible, and turns conventional wisdom on ... Read more

  • you cannot define an IT project in terms of contractual budgets and schedules
  • anything can change during the life of a project
  • what is eventually delivered can never be what is actually needed

He proposes a new model for IT in which the traditional client/vendor relationship, with its contractual commitments, is replaced by a shared risk/reward partnership geared towards workable results over time. Using real-world examples and a case study, the author walks you through the end-to-end processes of an IT department, covering subjects like demand management, investment planning, agile development and managing production applications.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc United Kingdom
Number of pages
182
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780470724019
SKU
V9780470724019
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50

About Michael Gentle
Michael Gentle has over 25 years of experience in IT departments, consulting companies and software vendors in Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific. He brings a refreshingly new angle to an old problem - and directly challenges both IT professionals and business executives to think differently about how to achieve IT success. www.michaelgentle.com

Reviews for IT Success!: Towards a New Model for Information Technology
"...a clever synthesis of enlightened IT project management thinking over the last few years."  (Financial Times, Wednesday 21st November 2007)

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