Coping with IS/IT Risk Management: The Recipes of Experienced Project Managers: Practitioner Series

1. Introduction.- 2. How Project Managers Construe Projects.- 3. A Closer Look at Their Constructs.- 4. Method.- 5. Alan.- 6. Andre.- 7. Anne.- 8. Bob.- 9. Canice.- 10. Colin.- 11. Gerry.- 12. Mervyn.- 13. Michael B.- 14. Michael C.- 15. Mike A.- 16. Owen.- 17. Padraig.- 18. Patrick.- 19. Paul.- 20. Philip.- 21. Susan A.- 22. Susan B.- 23. Tommy.- 24. Tony.- 25. Method.- 26. Some “Strategies”, “Recipes”, Call These What You Will.- 27. Through the “Looking-glasses” of Trust, Agency, Change, Capability, Action, Rationality and Control.- 28. Through the Looking-glass of “Requirements-uncertainty”.- 29. Conclusion.- Appendices.- 1. Numbers of Constructs under Each Theme by Manager.- 2. The Five Hypothetical Project Profiles.- 3. The “Strategies”/“Recipes”.

Real project managers talk about how they manage risk, rather than the theory behind what they are taught to do Focuses on a small number of key issues that worry project managers, rather than trying to mention every conceivable thing that can go wrong on a project While based on IT projects, the issues and solutions are generic to lots of types of projects so the book should be of interest to anybody who runs projects through which professional services are delivered to client organisations Research methods included are objective, defensible and reproducible - all the material is provided that another researcher working elsewhere would need to replicate the study Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras