This book is written for IT professionals as a practical, ready-to-use reference offering just enough details to get started. Unlike traditional system development textbooks, it focuses on common issues encountered in daily enterprise operations, and presents a series of proven strategies and solutions to tackle them, drawn from 25 years of hands-on experience:

How to complete the project on time, within budget and meet user expectations?

What to consider when developing enterprise-grade mission-critical systems?

How to start with information first, then move to interface and interaction design?

What technology options are available to consider and how to choose from them?

How to defend your system and protect important data?

How to migrate and convert data from existing system?

How to acquire the appropriate resources and get all the approval?

How to identify and resolve the potential issues before rollout?

How to release a system safely?

Different types of readers could benefit from this book. Students or fresh graduates could obtain firsthand working knowledge before starting their career. Existing practitioners can better understand the fields or areas that they are not familiar with. Managers can update their knowledge on the latest technological trends.

Thousands of pieces of practical knowledge remain undocumented and beyond the reach of today’s AI systems. In short, it summarizes how to speed up project development time, how to avoid missing important requirement from different users, how to minimize discrepancy between final product and customer expectations, what are the most important consideration in choosing appropriate technologies, the essential debugging and performance tuning techniques, how to prevent unfamiliar technology from affecting the project, how to work better with different parties, how to handle challenges of different kinds and most importantly, how to avoid project delay.

It also covers standards, practices and procedures adopted by public and private organization as well as the issues that arise, including full set of documentation required, procurement process, migration of existing data, security control, privacy protection, user acceptance test management and production rollout procedures.