This is a book in which successful, 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.
Coping with IS/IT Risk Management discusses how to:
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handle unrealistic client expectations;
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decide on the 'ownership' of a project;
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set targets that work in practice!
The result is a very well-written, interesting book, which will be enormously helpful to any professional needing to cope with the many and varied problems which can be encountered in IS/IT risk management.
About the Author: Tony Moynihan is a Professor at the School of Computer Applications at Dublin City University, researching in the field of software engineering and software project risk-analysis.
"This is probably one of the most real, useful, and entertaining books I have ever read on project management."
(Robert L Glass, Editor, The Software Practitioner)
"In my opinion, this book contains great practical advice to IS/IT project managers, based on the experience of other IT project managers. Tony succeeds in getting project managers to talk about their projects and the associated risks. He then distils these candid interviews into practical advice for other IS/IT project managers."
Series Editor’s Foreword
Preface and Acknowledgements
Chapter 1 : Introduction
Part 1 : “What Makes Different Projects Different”
Chapter 2 : How Project Managers Construe Projects
Chapter 3 : A Closer Look at Their Constructs
Part 2 : “You Want to Know What I’d Do About It?”
Chapter 4 : Method
Chapter 5 : Alan
Chapter 6 : Andre
Chapter 7 : Anne
Chapter 8 : Bob
Chapter 9 : Canice
Chapter 10 : Colin
Chapter 11 : Gerry
Chapter 12 : Mervyn
Chapter 13 : Michael B
Chapter 14 : Michael C
Chapter 15 : Mike A
Chapter 16 : Owen
Chapter 17 : Padraig
Chapter 18 : Patrick
Chapter 19 : Paul
Chapter 20 : Philip
Chapter 21 : Susan A
Chapter 22 : Susan B
Chapter 23 : Tommy
Chapter 24 : Tony
Part 3 : Distilling Out the Theories-of-Action
Chapter 25 : Method
Chapter 26 : Some “Strategies”, Recipes”, Call These What You Will
Part 4 : “ So, It Works in Practice… But Will It Work in Theory?”
Chapter 27 : Through the “ Looking –Glasses” of Trust, Agency, Change, Capability, Action, Rationality and Control
Chapter 28 : Through the Looking-Glass of “Requirements-Uncertainty”
Chapter 29 : Conclusion
Appendices
1. Numbers of Constructs Under Each Theme by Manager
2. The Five Hypothetical Project Profiles
3. The “Strategies”/ ”Recipes”
References
Index
