System Development: A Strategic Framework

✍ Scribed by Michael Bronzite BSc, MSc, MBCS, CEng (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag London
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 250
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ 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.

✦ Table of Contents

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

✦ Subjects

Software Engineering; System Performance and Evaluation; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet)