Severity Omega - the It Project Crisis Management Handbook

Book excerpt: A toolbox for the new or moderately experienced IT project manager facing a serious, ongoing project disaster – or just a major crisis. It teaches you how to recognize a disaster in the making and offers good advice and tools that can be part of a potential solution. It also contains a lightweight adaptable methodical approach to solving an IT project crisis – the Severity Omega approach. Most IT projects meet some kind of crisis during their existence, and way too many of them end in disaster. Severity Omega is a short but highly focused book that helps the project manager with a set of strategic, organizational, technical and process focused tools based on the authors experience as a seasoned IT project manager, who has seen his part of disasters. It helps you define what actually constitutes a disaster and gets you started with project communication, stakeholder management and running a team in the eye of the storm. Learn how to: - Find the weak foundations of a project in order to rebuild them - Recognize the signs of impending IT project disasters - Identify patterns in your organization that frequently leads to project crisis - Establish a mandate as the manager responsible for fixing the crisis - Ensure timely and targeted project communication - Wind down and return from emergency powers to normality - Choose and adapt project management methods - Use digital cloud-based process tools to support project crisis management