TY - BOOK AU - Charvat,Jason TI - Project Management Nation : : tools, techniques, and goals fot the new and practicing IT project manager / SN - 0471139262 U1 - 658.404 PY - 2002/// CY - United States of America : PB - John Wiley & Sons, Inc., KW - PROJECT MANAGEMENT KW - BUSINESS N1 - Includes glossary and index; Understanding Project Strategy -- Becoming an IT Project Manager -- Project Concepts -- The Project Analysis -- Planning for Succes -- Executing the Project -- Controlling the Project -- Implementing the project -- Closing the project N2 - Organizations depend on IT project managers to support overall business strategies with clear-cut benefits and advantages. As the bridge between the larger business strategy and the functional project level, project managers are expected to ensure key benefits such as reduced delivery costs, accelerated product-to-market speed, focus on client needs, and improved quality. To accomplish this, the successful IT project manager must have a complete command of a wide range of technologies, processes, techniques, skill sets, tools, and more. ER -