Looking into the Challenges of Complex IT Projects.
The article focuses on project management for information technology (IT) projects. The author comments on a report issued by the British Royal Academy of Engineering and the British Computer Society focusing on the education of computer programmers and project managers; the study also looked at th...
| Published in: | Communications of the ACM Vol. 49; no. 11; pp. 15 - 18 |
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Association for Computing Machinery
Nov2006
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