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. A study of 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, the book analyses the reasons for this poor performance and provides readers with a pattern of well-defined failure mechanisms which are especially relevant to large, long-term projects. With these established, it 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. Front Matter....Pages i-xvi Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Introduction....Pages 3-14 Formulating the problem....Pages 15-28 Patterns of development....Pages 29-50 Front Matter....Pages 51-51 Analysis....Pages 53-67 Planning....Pages 69-82 Forecasting....Pages 83-99 Partnership....Pages 101-122 Front Matter....Pages 123-123 Taking stock....Pages 125-134 The new approach — things....Pages 135-148 The new approach — people....Pages 149-170 The new approach — management....Pages 171-193 Wrap-up....Pages 195-211 Back Matter....Pages 213-245 The next hundred pages or so will offer you yet another discussion about software systems and how to develop them.
