Ralph R Young

How do you save a failing project when it seems like there's no turning back? How to Save a Failing Project: Chaos to Control provides the knowledge and insight you need to recognise a project in trouble, determine what to do about it, and transform it into a success. You'll also discover methods, techniques, and tools to keep a project from getting into trouble in the first place. ? Understand the value of a project plan - and of updating this plan continuously as you execute the project ? Recognise signs that the project is deviating from the approach needed for successful completion ? Develop a set of metrics that provide insight into the health of your project ? Identify and implement steps to get your project back on track ? Prevent the fatal missteps that can lead to project failure ? Position your team for project success

A concise and thorough handbook on requirements analysis, this book is a desk guide for your systems or software development work. It enables you to identify the real customer requirements for your projects and control changes and additions to these requirements. The book helps you understand the importance of requirements, leverage effective requirements practices, and better utilize resources. You also learn how to strengthen interpersonal relationships and communications, which are major contributors to project effectiveness. Moreover, this reference identifies and describes the roles, desired skills and characteristics of the effective requirements analyst, and includes examples and checklists to help you implement best practices. It goes on to describe what comprises an integrated quality approach on a project or in an organization and explains how to achieve it. The book concludes with a vision for the field of requirements engineering and provides case studies that draw on actual experience.