Customer Reviews
Insightful and comprehensive! - By: K. Maroukian, 04 May 2008 
Bob Hughes, Roger Ireland, Brian West, Norman Smith & David I.Shepherd have produced an interesting account of IS Project Management. The book refers to the ISEB Foundation IS Project Management certificate which I passed using this book. It could well refer to individuals who simply wish to understand the basics in IS project management.
There are eight chapters to read namely:
1) Projects & project work (project management & development lifecycle)
2) Project planning (product flow diagram, activity planning, resource alllocation)
3) Monitoring & control (monitoring progress, purpose & types of of reporting, corrective action)
4) Change control & configuration control (roles & responsibilities)
5) Quality (Quality control vs Quality assurance, dynamic testing, ISO 9001:2000)
6) Estimating (various approaches are explained)
7) Risk (risk assessment, risk management, risk monitoring)
8) Project organization (programmes & projects, identifying stakeholders, project support office, matrix management, team building & dynamics, management styles)
Throughout the chapters there are a number of illustrations which depict the essence of best practices stated. There is a plan to the learning material explained which shows that there is a connection between alll chapters.
I would highly recommend this book to every IT professional interested in IS project management.
Fantastic primer for anyone starting in Project Management - By: Karl Grocock, 16 May 2007 
A fantastic easy read introduction to Project Management. Allowed most of my direct report Project Managers to get to grips with the basis & be just using this book got on & passed the ISEB IS Project Management qualification as well.
Great for anyone considering taking up Project Management or in the early years of their project management career. Nothing reallly here for the experienced professional but excellent value if you want to accredit your learning with a qualification. Just shy of 5 stars as it's a work related book & not one I'd read for pleasure.
