Description |
1 online resource (xxvi, 530 pages) : illustrations |
Contents |
Cover ; The Project Workout; About the Author; Contents; List of Project Workouts; Foreword by Robert Heller; Acknowledgments; Preface to the Fourth Edition by Ian Livingston; Introduction; Part One: Challenges To Be Faced; Challenges We Need to Face; Problems, more problems; Initiatives fail, are cancelled or never get started -- why?; Advice the Best Organisations Give Us; The study ; The lessons and their implications; But we're different! -- organisational context; Conclusion; Part Two: A Walk Through a Project; The Project Framework: An Overview of its Gates and Stages |
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Projects as vehicles of changeInternal and customer-facing projects; Stages and gates; The project framework; Some key questions; How can I apply the framework?; Who Does What?; The players; The Proposal: Identify the Need!; Overview; Key deliverable; Process steps; The Initial Investigation Stage: Have a Quick Look at It!; Overview; Key deliverables; Process steps; The Detailed Investigation Stage: Promising ... Let's Have a Closer Look; Overview; Key deliverables; Process steps; The Develop and Test Stage: Do It!; Overview; Key deliverables; Process steps; The Trial Stage: Try It Out |
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OverviewKey deliverables; Process steps; The Release Stage: Let's Get Going!; Overview; Key deliverable; Process steps; The Post-Implementation Review: How Did We Do?; Overview; Key deliverable; Applying the Staged Framework; Four types of project; Fitting into the staged framework; Small stuff, or 'simple' projects; Agile or rapid projects; 'Just do it' projects -- loose cannons; Big stuff, or projects and subprojects; Work packages; The extended project life cycle; A Few Related Projects: Simple Programmes; Simple programmes; Sharing projects -- interdependencies |
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Part Three: Dealing With Many ProjectsPortfolios of Projects; The Business Programme; What's different about Business Programme management?; Managing the portfolio; Prerequisites for effective portfolio management; There are Too Many Projects to Do!; Principles for selecting projects; Project authorisation; Selecting the right projects; Far too many projects!; Putting the brakes on; Have I Got the Resources?; Conditions for total resource planning; White space -- the freedom to change; How can I meet the three conditions?; How detailed does resource forecasting need to be? |
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An Environment for Managing Your PortfolioNew structures for old; Support offices; The tools to help it work -- systems; Lists -- keeping tabs on your projects; Harnessing web technology; What would such a system look like?; Management accounting systems; Putting your systems together; Part Four: Making Projects Work For You; Project Teams and Style; Culture -- the way we do things around here; Project teams; Leadership and influence; I thought you were doing that! -- accountability; Project Setup; How to go about it; Set up the project team; Prepare a project definition; Prepare the project plan |
Summary |
This interactive text takes the reader step-by-step through project management, acting as a valuable executive companion to delivering successful projects and managing portfolios of projects to drive a business forward |
Notes |
Previous edition: 2005 |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed December 6, 2017) |
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digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
Subject |
Project management -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industrial Management.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Management.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Management Science.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Organizational Behavior.
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Project management
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Genre/Form |
Handbooks and manuals
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Form |
Electronic book
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LC no. |
2009022505 |
ISBN |
9780273723905 |
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0273723901 |
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9781282529823 |
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128252982X |
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9786612529825 |
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6612529822 |
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0273745271 |
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9780273745273 |
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