The The Integrator: A Change Management Framework for Achieving Agile IT Project Success

When a $145 million IT project fails, the County CEO asks Max McLellan, known as "The Integrator," to identify the problem and find a solution within 30 days. Max must confront ghosts of previous failures, uncover crookedness, and expose truths to achieve success. The book offers a proven narrative on the organizational change framework for achieving Agile IT project management success, based on the authors' 45+ year client experiences and published research.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 242 pages
Publication date: 25 March 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

When a $145 million IT project failure pushes Los Angeles to the edge of financial meltdown, the County CEO asks Max McLellan, a harried IT project manager, aka "The Integrator," for help. The County Board gives Max 30 days to identify the problem and find a solution. At first, Max finds the usual missteps, but something bigger and darker beckons, an explosive source of project failure. He must do something different, rattling ghosts of previous County IT failures, uncloaking crookedness, and exposing truths that shatter careers.

With some people rooting for his failure, Max battles to fit all the pieces together with the County team, applying his proven framework to define the problem, plan a solution, and execute it successfully.

It's common knowledge that barely 50% of IT projects succeed, per a 2017 Project Management Institute report. Equally well-known, approximately 70% of large-scale change management initiatives fail according to a 2017 McKinsey & Co. report. Given the challenge to overcome these low success rates, "The Integrator" offers a proven narrative on the organizational change framework for achieving Agile IT project management success based on the authors' 45+ year client experiences and published research.

The Integrator defines change management as the single overarching methodology integrating Agile IT and project management. It does this because all projects are about change – significant organizational and personal change. The people involved – their participation in and understanding and support of these changes – ultimately determine IT projects success or failure. In fact, while all IT projects are about change, successful projects change human behavior.

The methodologies included in the framework, described in "The Integrator," include:

• Change.
• Aligning organizational goals and IT strategies.
• Establishing a change management office.
• Identifying and managing change resistance.
• Implementing an Agile transformation roadmap.
• Training and developing employees.
• Monitoring and evaluating progress.
• Continuous improvement.

By following these methodologies, Max and the County team can overcome the challenges of IT project failure and achieve success in their Agile IT project management efforts.

Weight: 406g
Dimension: 152 x 230 x 23 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367431655