Introduction to It Project Management

by Snyder, Cynthia; Parth, Frank

• ISBN13: 9781567261783
• ISBN10: 1567261787
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781523097272, 9781567264210
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-10-01
• Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
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Summary

Introduction to IT Project Management provides IT project managers the practical tools needed to maintain daily operations while managing multiple projects. This valuable reference helps IT project managers, CIOs, and project sponsors understand the IT project environment so that projects can be managed much more efficiently and successfully. An instructor’s guide is available.

Author Biography

Cynthia Snyder, PMP, MBA, is a professional project management consultant, instructor, and author. She provides consulting and training services to government and private industry. Her consulting focuses on project management maturity, PMO
startups, and positioning project management as a core competency for organizations. Cyndi has experience in training in the corporate, public, and academic environment.
Clients have included IBM, Kaiser, Toyota, and Southern California Edison. In an
academic environment, she has taught online and in the classroom for UC Irvine,
CalTech, and USC. She has written two books on project management and has been the technical editor on
many others.

Frank Parth, MS, MSSM, MBA, PMP, is the President of Project Auditors, LLC, a project management consulting, training, and auditing company. After ending a career in aerospace as the assistant technical director on a $12 billion satellite program, he branched out in 1993 and began consulting in technology management to major U.S. companies, national governments, and the U.N. He was CTO for a small but successful e-commerce company, headed up systems engineering at TRW Information Systems during a major infrastructure upgrade, and created PMOs for several major corporations. He taught systems analysis and management at the Graduate School at the University of Southern California, has been an instructor at the University of California, Irvine PM Certificate program since 1994, and has taught at the Claremont Graduate School. Mr. Parth has undergraduate and graduate degrees in physics, a master’s in systems management from USC, and an MBA from the Peter F. Drucker Graduate.