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1. Today's IT environment -- 2. Critical success factors for IT projects -- 3. Project selection and initiation -- 4. The project management discipline -- 5. The software engineering discipline -- 6. Project overall planning -- 7. Developing the schedule and cost plan -- 8. Risk planning and...

"This book combines comprehensive research related to e-collaboration in modern organizations, emphasizing topics relevant to those involved in initiating and managing distributed projects. Providing authoritative content, it describes issues that have implications for distributed project...

1. Outsourcing opportunities -- 2. Theoretical foundations -- 3. Critical success factors -- 4. Value configurations -- 5. Maturity in outsourcing relationships -- 6. Costs, benefits, and risks -- 7. Knowledge transfer -- 8. Outsourcing performance -- 9. Outsourcing governance -- 10. Case study...

"This book targets business managers, IT managers, business students and researchers and will enable its readers to systematically, effectively and consistently measure the value of Information Technology"--Provided by publisher.

"This book examines the cutting edge of PM in the form of software as electronic mediation of work. It examines three areas: PM as a social process in the implementation of IT; IT as a social process of work; and theories and models of collaboration and facilitation by IT and Project Management"--

Virtual teams are a relatively new phenomenon and by definition work across time, distance, and organizations through the use of information and communications technology. This book gathers the best of academic research on real work-based virtual teams into one book. It offers a series of...

"This book provides knowledge and insights on present and future AI applications in Operations Management presenting tools and decisions in terms of theoretical and empirical models, methods and proposed applications"--Provided by publisher.

"This book collects the work of some of the best scholars and practitioners in the fields of e-government and project management, who explore how e-government projects can be managed, planned, and executed with effective project management techniques and methodologies"--Provided by publisher.

"Managing cost, time, and quality of a project can be a challenging task for any project manager, but especially in times of an ever-changing and burgeoning field of IT. Project Management Techniques and Innovations in Information Technology offers a vital compendium of the latest research, case...