Designed specifically for IT professionals working in any type of consulting organization, here is a practical, real-world guide for delivering successful engagements to clients. Ready-to-use sample forms, tables, checklists, and charts are in the text and available free for download.

High-Value IT Consulting: 12 Keys to a Thriving Practice

Business & Money

Purba, Sanjiv

Delaney, Bob

Industries

McGraw-Hill/Osborne Media

Follow the exact steps the experts have successfully taken to rescue a project from failure. This informative and concise book will guide you step-by-step through an effective intervention, allowing you to salvage more than you might think of a project’s deliverables and goals. Recognize the early warning signs of decline, then develop swift strategies to handle communication and consensus, research, diagnosis, and timing. Proven techniques, along with case studies and sidebars, help you understand exactly how to save your project--and possibly your career.

Project Rescue: Avoiding a Project Management Disaster

Zucchero, Joseph

Management & Leadership

Project or program health checks provide tremendous value to businesses and pay for themselves by multiples of magnitude. No matter how well a project or program is performing, there are always activities that can provide better value, reduce costs, or introduce more innovation. IT project and program health checks can help organizations reach their goals and dramatically improve Return on Investment (ROI). IT Project Health Checks: Driving Successful Implementation and Multiples of Business Value offers a proven approach for evaluating IT projects or programs in order to determine how they are performing and how the eventual outcome for the initiative is currently trending. The project or program health checks provide a set of techniques that produce actionable recommendations that can be applied for any combination of the following outcomes: <ul> <li>Drive more business and technical value from a program</li> <li>Set a project or program back on track for successful implementation as defined by executive management</li> <li>Rescue a program that is heading towards failure</li> <li>Act as additional insurance for initiatives that are too important to fail</li> <li>Protect executive careers by creating transparency within the inner workings of complex initiatives.</li></ul> The book shows how a review can quickly identify whether an initiative needs to be rescued even when the project team is not aware that it is hurtling towards failure. It also provides techniques for driving business value even when a project team believes it's been stretched as much as possible. Other outcomes covered in this book include: <ul> <li>Objectively develop a project Health-Check Scorecard that establishes how well a project is doing and the direction it is headed</li> <li>Demonstrate how to drive business value from an IT program regardless of how well or badly it is tracking </li> <li>Provide surgical advice to improve a project's outcome</li> <li>How to use the many templates and sample deliverables to get a quick start on your own health check.</li></ul> Designed to provide significant value to any member of a project team, program team, stakeholders, sponsors, business users, system integrators, trainers, and IT professionals, this book can help find opportunities to drive multiples of business value and exceed project success metrics.

IT Project Health Checks

Economics

Auerbach Publications

Learn to initiate, develop, and implement effective, user-pleasing software projects on time and within budget. 
Here is your chance to learn software project management from a host of successful IS managers as well as three of the leading authors in the field. This one-of-a-kind handbook integrates topics that have historically been treated separately and establishes a strategic framework for project initiation, justification, and executive sponsorship. It defines the role of the project manager within the context of the organization and examines such issues as: realistic planning, why projects fail or succeed, proactive management, aligning IS and business requirements, project communication, assessing team members, and the effective use of JADs. Entertaining anecdotes and case studies document both successful and unsuccessful projects, and the responses of more than 60 top-notch IS managers to a detailed management survey supplement the extensive conclusions made by the authors. This indispensable guide: <ul>
<li>Explains the roles of key players involved in the systems development process</li> <li>Outlines a checklist of factors to consider when initiating a project</li> <li>Offers a method of measuring project success or failure</li> <li>Examines common avoidable reasons for project failure</li> <li>Introduces Interactive Project Development Methodology (IPDM)</li> <li>Provides a basic tutorial for using Microsoft Project 4 to help manage projects successfully</li> <li>Can be applied to any phase of the systems development life cycle and to both in-house and outsourced projects</li> </ul>

How to Manage a Successful Software Project: Methodologies, Techniques, Tools

Sawh, David R.

Shah, Bharat

*A Wiley-QED Publication

Contains essential information based on the author's personal development experience using Sybase SQL Server on diverse client/server development projects for mission-critical application systems. Focuses on providing readers with practical examples of SQL Server features that can be used immediately in an application development environment. Covers such topics as basic client/server concepts, stored procedures, triggers, query optimization, APT Workbench and much more.

Developing Client/Server Systems Using Sybase SQL Server System 10

Computers & Technology

Networking & Cloud Computing

wiley

A complete insider's guide to building more robust, fully integrated client/server applications using SQLWindows and Centura  If you develop large-scale client/server applications in a 16-bit or 32-bit environment, this is one book you won't want to be without. A complete, hands-on guide to programming with both SQLWindows and Centura, it is packed with rarely documented practical information and advanced programming techniques that will enable you to provide your corporate clients with what they demand in the quickest, most cost-effective manner possible. From rapid prototyping techniques to QuickObjects and Classes, the author clearly and concisely shows you how to take utmost advantage of SQLWindows and Centura features. He tells you how to: * Customize applications using both SQLWindows and Centura * Master all SQLWindows and Centura object technology features * Integrate applications across different platforms * Connect and use Microsoft SQLServer * Migrate from 16-bit SQLWindows to the Centura's 32-bit processing environment  On the CD-ROM you'll find: Source Programs  Visit our Web site at: http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/

Using SQLWindows and Centura: Techniques for Building Client/Server Solutions

Create databases and develop business client/server applications using Sybase Server System 11 The success—or failure—of your client/server application depends on your ability to adapt an existing tool to new uses. Covering the new Sybase SQL Server 11, this guide helps you keep up with the ever-changing demands of distributed data applications and database issues. After a quick review of basic client/server concepts, this book shows you how to implement each concept using the Sybase SQL language. It examines the internals of the SQL Server environment, then proceeds to focus on topics that are needed to build successful client/server applications . This development guide covers stored procedures, triggers, query optimization, ANSI SQL, Transact SQL, caching, transaction logs, environment variables, table partitioning, cursors, and other features that will help you build fast and efficient client/server applications. Completely up-to-date, this book covers all of the latest features of Sybase SQL Server 11, including improved administration, utilities, and performance as well as specially enhanced networking capabilities. A comprehensive tutorial shows you how to install and configure SQL Server quickly, and to develop real world applications. Practical lessons learned from successful client/server development projects are included in this guide.

Developing Client/Server Systems Using Sybase SQL Server System 11

Total coverage of the latest SQL Server release, from a leading SQL expert. With the release of Microsoft SQL Server 7, client/server developers must master the latest features and SQL's new architecture-vastly different from earlier editions. To build full-scale business applications, they will also need to learn how to harness the power of COM distributed objects and MTS. This book will ease the pressure, providing a complete tutorial on each developmental phase, from planning and design to prototyping, coding, and reporting.

Building Microsoft SQL Server 7 Applications With Com

Computer Science

John Wiley&Sons, Inc.

The best techniques and guidelines to deliver IT projects on schedule and within budget With all the pitfalls and cost overruns that can cause a software project to come in late and over budget, managers must know the best practices in the field and how to implement them. This comprehensive guide provides you with all the tools you'll need to deliver successful IT projects, including proven techniques, guidelines, and checklists. The hands-on tutorial will teach you how to implement these techniques using Microsoft Project 2000. Armed with this book, you'll be able to build software that meets user requirements. Inside, you'll find a survival framework that shows you how to achieve the best possible results with your project. the framework presents all the methods, tools, and approaches for you to consider when implementing projects. You will also be introduced to the Iterative Project Development Methodology (IPDM), which you can use on a broad range of projects, including n-tier architecture, legacy applications, open systems, Web-based applications, and e-business solutions. Whether you are managing small, or large projects, this book will help you: * Get the necessary support from senior management for a project * Plan and schedule projects * Learn the best way to organize staff for a project * Discover why a project can succeed or fail * Avoid common pitfalls by using sound project management methodologies * Manage projects in an outsourcing environment * Implement the best practices using Microsoft Project 2000 The companion Web site at www.wiley.com/compbooks/purba features a sample project plan, forms, and checklists.Visit our Web site at www.wiley.com/compbooks/ Visit the companion Web site at www.wiley.com/compbooks/purba

How to Manage a Successful Software Project: With Microsoft(r) Project 2000, 2nd Edition

This book shows how to use Open Source software to create Web portals featuring extensive content management and community capabilities. It is a standard reference for enterprise content management solutions using Open Source - something the IT industry has been searching for since the Linux operating system started to gain substantial popularity. The book provides a step-by-step approach for building next-generation solutions that build content management and related add-ons into a portal framework for a non-static Web site. It explains how to use low-cost or no-cost Open Source solutions that provide same capabilities as high-cost vendor solutions.

Content Management and Service Portals: Open Source Solutions

Lohia, Gautam

CRC-Press

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