Features
- Cover Type: Hard Cover with 237 pages
- Published by: Wiley
- Edition: 1st Edition September 6, 2002
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0471250414
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0471250418
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Book Dimensions:
9.3 x 6.2 x 1 inches
- Weighs: 1.1 pounds
Reader Reviews
Although there is really nothing revolutionary about "Revolutionizing IT", this is a good book for seasoned and war-torn IT professionals as well as end-users frustrated with their IT departments. It offers some *evolutionary* ideas on how to improve project and support methodologies based on the experience of the Andrews Consulting Group. Several principles put forth are those many of us already knew but never mentioned out loud. + Despite how much time, money, and attention given at the outset of the project, it is impossible to create a complete plan and cost estimate for an IT project. + Any complex design will be imperfect. + Scope control, although unpopular, is absolutely critical. + There will never be enough resources available to build the optimum solution. Some insightful tenets I took away. + Those most familiar with an existing system/design are in a poor position to lead the recommendation of a new one (because of a bias) + IT professionals like complexity and by their nature tend to bring more complexity into projects. + Endusers should be 100% accountable for projects. + Time is a project's worst enemy - as more time passes between approval and deployment, the number of things that can go wrong and the number of assumption that can change increases. The authors discuss their "RITE Approach", which again is not revolutionary ... or contradictory to other methodologies, but rather offers some common sense best practices that complement waterfall, Agile, and RUP methodologies. The authors self-admittedly bash the waterfall paradigm but then come back and confess that the waterfall is the foundation of all PM methodologies. Good book to read to insure you're on the right track...
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