Complex IT Project Management: 16 Steps to Success

Mainframe printing, 76

feature/function/benefit sell, 222

target state, 53, 221

Mainframes, 16

Maintenance contracts, 153

Majority, rule of, 209

Management information bases (MIBs), 153

Management style, 244-245

Management traits, 243-244; see also Senior managers

communications skills of, 252

conflict avoidance, 249-250

rasp of theory and details, 251-252

management style, 244-245

political tendencies, 247-248

problem solving, 245-247

procrastination, 248-249

risk aversion, 250-251

Manufacturing cycles, 16

Master plan, 119-120

Maturity of project managers, 295

Meetings, 155-158, 213

Mentoring, 211-213

Mergers, 16, 21

Methodology, in budget management, 162

MIBs (management information bases), 153

Micromanagers, 244-245

Microwave technology, 7

Middleware project, 16

Milestones, 15

in implementation strategies, 67

and scheduling of projects, 140

in vendor management, 116

Minutes, documenting, 152

Miscellaneous costs, 172

Missed budget, 264

Missed dates, 264

Missed requirements, 265-266

Monitoring tools, 203

Move schedules, documenting, 152

Moving costs, in budgetary laundry list, 172

Multideliverable projects, 257

Multiplexers, 46, 112

Murphy's Law, 89-90