Severity Omega - The It Project Crisis Management Handbook

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