System Development: A Strategic Framework

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 245 pages
• Published by: Springer
• Edition: 1st Edition March 15, 2000
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 1852331763
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-1852331764
• Book Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.2 x 0.6 inches
• Weighs: 14.1 ounces

Product Description
System Development: A Strategic Framework looks at one of the key issues in the design and development of IT systems: the fact that the bulk of system development projects undertaken will fail to meet originally defined objectives. Using a number of case studies, it analyses the reasons for this poor performance and provides the reader with a pattern of well-defined failure mechanisms which are especially relevant to large, long-term projects. With these established, the book then generates a set of planning procedures and corporate guidelines which will substantially reduce the impact and probability of financial and performance disasters in future projects.
Accessible to the professional and non-technical reader, this book will prove invaluable to project managers, development managers, IT controllers, project engineers, and systems analysts as well as MSc and MBA students studying computer system development.


Book Info
Provides a strategic understanding of system development, highlighting the ground-rules. Describes why large, long-term projects are subject to inherent failure patterns. Generates a set of planning procedures and corporate guidelines to avoid future financial and performance disasters. Softcover. DLC: System design.

Reader Reviews
This book is a must read for any individual, including the "non-techie", who is involved in, or planning a long term project. The pitfalls illustrated can be avoided even in smaller projects. The first half of the book is invaluable in that it examines via case studies, why projects fail. It is wryly written and confirms why "Murphy was an optimist". The second half of the book is dedicated to solving the problem. "System Development" is very readable and frequently humorous without being flippant. This book joins the very few that will stay on my ready reference shelf. Highly recommended. Comment | | (Report this)