Coping with IS/IT Risk Management The Recipes of Experienced Project Managers [Paperback]

Successful and experienced IT solutions providers talk about their actual practical experiences in IT risk management. Tony Moynihan has asked successful IS/IT project managers to compare and contrast their recent projects in terms of the various important and different factors they had to deal with in each project. The issues and concerns explored in the text include: how to handle unrealistic client expectations; deciding on the 'ownership' of a project; and setting targets that work in practice! The result is a very well-written, interesting book, which will be enormously helpful to any professional who needs to cope with the many and varied problems which can be encountered in IS/IT risk management.IntroductionWHAT MAKES DIFFERENT PROJECTS DIFFERENT?How project managers construe projectsA closer look at their constructsYOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT I'D DO ABOUT IT?MethodAlanAndreAnneBobCaniceColinGerryMervynMichael BMichael CMike AOwenPadraigPatrickPaulPhilipSusan ASusan BTommyTonyDISTILLING-OUT THE THEORIES-OF-ACTIONMethodSome strategies, 'recipes', call these what you will...'SO, IT WORKS IN PRACTICE...BUT WILL IT WORK IN THEORY?'Through the looking-glasses of trust, agency, change, capability, action, rationality and controlThrough the looking-glass of 'requirements-uncertainty'ConclusionAppendix 1: Numbers of constructs under each theme by managerAppendix 2: The five hypothetical project profilesAppendix 3: The 'strategies'/'recipes'Real project managers talk about how they manage risk, rather than the theory behind what they are taught to do
Focuses on a small number of key issues that worry project managers, rather than trying to mention every conceivable thing that can go wrong on a project
While based on IT projects, the issues and solutions are generic to lots of types of projects so the book should be of interest to anybody who runs projects through which professional services are delivered to client organisations
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