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...

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Published in:Communications of the ACM Vol. 49; no. 11; pp. 15 - 18
Main Author: Glass, Robert L.
Format: Article
Published: Association for Computing Machinery Nov2006
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