System Development: A Strategic Framework - Softcover

Bronzite, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1852331763 ISBN 13: 9781852331764

Publisher: Springer, 2000

Synopsis

Provides a strategic understanding of system development, highlighting the ground-rules. Describes why large, long-term projects are subject to inherent failure patterns. Generates a set of planning procedures and corporate guidelines to avoid future financial and performance disasters. Softcover. DLC: System design.

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Synopsis
At a global level, billons of pounds, dollars and euros continue to be wasted each year on inadequate Information Technology system designs. Using a number of case studies, this book analyses the reasons why such considerable investments of time and resources should result in systems that generally cost too much, take too long and provide too little benefit.

Written with the professional and non-technical reader in mind, Michael Bronzite provides a strategic understanding of system development, describes why large, long-term projects are subject to inherent failure patterns and generates a set of planning procedures and corporate guidelines to avoid future financial and performance disasters.

Essential reading for IT directors, system analysts, project managers and students, this book will prove invaluable to anyone involved in commissioning or developing IT systems.

Synopsis

System Development: A Strategic Framework looks at one of the key issues in the design and development of IT systems: the fact that the bulk of system development projects undertaken will fail to meet originally defined objectives. Using a number of case studies, it analyses the reasons for this poor performance and provides the reader with a pattern of well-defined failure mechanisms which are especially relevant to large, long-term projects. With these established, the book then generates a set of planning procedures and corporate guidelines which will substantially reduce the impact and probability of financial and performance disasters in future projects. Accessible to the professional and non-technical reader, this book will prove invaluable to project managers, development managers, IT controllers, project engineers, and systems analysts as well as MSc and MBA students studying computer system development.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1852331763
• ISBN 13: 9781852331764
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 261