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Author Buttrick, Robert, author.

Title The project workout : the ultimate handbook of project and programme management / Robert Buttrick
Edition Fourth edition
Published Harlow, England : Prentice Hall, [2009]
©2009

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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
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
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
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?
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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Subject Project management -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industrial Management.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Management.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Management Science.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Organizational Behavior.
Project management
Genre/Form Handbooks and manuals
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2009022505
ISBN 9780273723905
0273723901
9781282529823
128252982X
9786612529825
6612529822
0273745271
9780273745273
Other Titles Ultimate handbook of project and programme management