ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

This book has arrived at its present state via a process of development through three editions that have involved a large number of people. For a start, the following people contributed the original material for the text in the first edition:

Norman Smith: Chapters 1 and 4

Bob Hughes: Chapters 2 and 6

Roger Ireland: Chapters 3 and part of 8

Brian West: Chapters 5 and part of 8

David I. Shepherd: Chapter 7

Although the text has since gone through many changes in terms of updating and general tinkering, the original material on which these have been built has been an enduring foundation. Sue McNaughton and Elaine Boyes at BCS drove the publication project for the first edition. The original development of the Foundation Certificate in IS Project Management as a whole involved many BCS staff, including Malcolm Sillars, Rebecca Stoddart, Imelda Byrne, Steve Causer and Carol Lewis.

Jutta Mackwell was instrumental in initiating work on a second edition and Sharon Nickels managed the production of this version from the editor’s word-processed manuscript to the actual published text.

My thanks go to Becky Youé, who floated the idea of a third edition, and to Florence Leroy. Many improvements were due to suggestions by Noel Younger, Phil Baker and Mike Heselton, who used previous editions of the book in their work with the BCS Higher Education Qualification Diploma in IT Project Management. Helpful suggestions were also made by the two reviewers and by editor Mary Hobbins.

My exposure to the processes behind the latest update to the British Standard 6079 Guidance on Project Management, as the BCS representative on the BSI development group, have made me much more aware of the integration of IT project management with more generic project principles. I would therefore acknowledge my gratitude to the other group members for many new insights. The BCS Project Management Specialist Group, under the leadership of David Reynolds, with which I was for a time associated, has also been a source of new insights into the practice of project management. Charles Symons also provided timely information not only on functional software measurement but on issues relating to project success and failure in general.

This edition is dedicated, as were the previous ones, to the memory of Jimmy Robertson.