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The project workout : the ultimate handbook of project and programme management /
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.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autor principal: | |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Harlow, England :
Prentice Hall,
[2009]
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| Edición: | Fourth edition. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo (Requiere registro previo con correo institucional) |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.