Project management. a common sense guide to the PMBOK / Part one, Framework and schedule :
The Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge published by the Project Management Institute provides a roadmap of 49 processes designed to support project managers in all phases of project management. The sheer number of processes and their allocation across process groups and knowledge area...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Momentum Press,
[2018]
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Colección: | Industrial and systems engineering collection.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- I. From the PMBOK framework to project selection
- 1. Introduction to the PMBOK framework
- 1.1 The PMI framework: it is all about getting work done
- 1.2 Projects versus ongoing operations
- 1.3 Digital versus analog
- 1.4 The process groups and what they mean in practice
- 1.5 The five process groups
- 1.6 Beyond the five process groups
- 1.7 Why process groups and project life cycles are not the same thing
- 1.8 Knowledge areas: a content view of what happens with process groups
- 1.9 Process groups and knowledge areas: how do they go together?
- 1.10 What's next to think about? Complete the plan
- 1.11 Do it! (the executing process group)
- 1.12 Stay on top of it! (the monitoring and controlling process group)
- 1.13 Finish it! (the closing process group)
- 1.14 Seeing the "big picture"
- 1.15 The five process groups
- 1.16 The process logic in the PMBOK
- 1.17 Chapter 1: important "takeaways" for the project manager.
- 2. Project selection
- 2.1 What should be done? Deciding upon the right project
- 2.2 Strategy: knowing "why" comes before what
- 2.3 Strategic alignment
- 2.4 How to narrow down project choices
- 2.5 Qualitative selection tools
- 2.6 Quantitative selection tools
- 2.7 Project selection questions and analysis techniques
- 2.8 The TVM: what does it mean?
- 2.9 How is TVM applied to the payback period calculation?
- 2.10 Risk and reward in project selection
- 2.11 Another view of return: the internal rate of return (IRR)
- 2.12 Returning to the original question
- 2.13 Numbers do not ensure unbiased results
- 2.14 Chapter 2: important "takeaways" for the project manager.
- II. From project to schedule
- 3. Getting started: estimates, stakeholders, and scope
- 3.1 Initial project estimates
- 3.2 The ROM estimate
- 3.3 Starting a plan with a project schedule
- 3.4 Start it! Getting work started with the initiation process group
- 3.5 The charter as contract
- 3.6 Stakeholders: who are they, and why think about them?
- 3.7 Analyzing your stakeholders
- 3.8 Scope, time, and cost in the planning process group
- 3.9 Top down versus bottom up
- 3.10 Applying expertise
- 3.11 Using analogies and parametric estimation
- 3.12 Estimating and trade-offs
- 3.13 Project estimates and "the learning curve"
- 3.14 From high-level estimates
- 3.15 Project scope-getting started
- 3.16 Planning to plan: how to approach your project schedule
- 3.17 Describing scope in stages
- 3.18 The WBS: what's the point?
- 3.19 Scope = deliverables
- 3.20 Chapter 3: important "takeways" for the project manager.
- 4. How long, and how much?
- 4.1 Time: activities and deliverables
- 4.2 Putting things in order
- 4.3 From simple, to complex
- 4.4 Activity on arrow: a different type of network diagram
- 4.5 Analyzing project duration using a network diagram
- 4.6 The forward pass
- 4.7 Forward pass with merging activities
- 4.8 The backward pass
- 4.9 Activity slack
- 4.10 CPM and sensitivity
- 4.11 Building the estimated PERT schedule
- 4.12 The PERT network diagram
- 4.13 The weighted average and the project average
- 4.14 The normal curve and probability
- 4.15 Units of project time and probability
- 4.16 Measuring standard deviations
- 4.17 Using the Z table
- 4.18 Approximating probabilities
- 4.19 The "50 percent rule"
- 4.20 Converting schedule time units to standard deviations
- 4.21 The significance of the project mean
- 4.22 Determining the project standard deviation
- 4.23 Variance calculations
- 4.24 Practical use of PERT analysis
- 4.25 An additional number to remember
- 4.26 Recalling the PERT analysis sequence
- 4.27 PERT versus Monte Carlo analysis
- 4.28 The schedule duration and resource limitations
- 4.29 The critical chain
- 4.30 Further conflicts and additional delays
- 4.31 Impact of conflict resolution
- 4.32 Schedule optimization
- 4.33 Schedule precedence impact
- 4.34 Cost: what funding will be required to complete the project?
- 4.35 Categorizing costs
- 4.36 Budget plot ("S curve or PV")
- 4.37 From budget to Gantt
- 4.38 Chapter 4: Important "takeways" for the project manager.
- 5. The schedule is not a plan
- 5.1 Answering the unanswered questions
- 5.2 Final thoughts on the PMBOK framework
- 5.3 PMBOK 6 and Agile
- 5.4 Chapter 5: Important "takeways" for the project manager
- Additional readings
- About the author
- Index.