The project management book /
The Project Management Book addresses the real-life scenarios and issues that anyone responsible for managing a project is likely to face on a day to day basis. It provides solutions to the everyday issues involved in managing projects, including: Defining your project Understanding your role as a...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
---|---|
Autor principal: | |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Harlow, England ; New York :
Pearson,
Ã2013.
|
Temas: | |
Acceso en línea: | Texto completo (Requiere registro previo con correo institucional) |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Contents
- About the author
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part 1: The foundations
- Projects
- Project management
- The role of the project manager
- Customers, clients and users
- Part 2: Setting up your project
- Defining your project
- Objectives, deliverables and tasks
- Building a plan
- Estimating and resourcing
- Part 3: Utilising the team, sponsor and stakeholders
- The high-performance project team
- Global and offshore teams
- The effective sponsor
- A productive stakeholder community
- Part 4: Delivering the project
- Managing progress: perform, deliver, accomplish
- What project managers need to know
- Understanding project risk
- Value-added project reporting
- Part 5: Practical project management
- Making risk management real
- The temptaions and costs of multi-tasking
- The right and wrong uses of the plan on a page
- Audit, assure, control or coach the project?
- Part 6: The project environment
- Prioritisation
- The culture of delivery
- The limits to planning and prediction
- Dealing with external problems
- Part 7: Integrated project management
- The strengths and limits of project management
- Bridging the divide: project and change managers
- From delivery to benefits realisation
- The lessons from lean and six sigma
- Part 8: Aligning projects to business needs
- Hight-speed project management
- Delivering in a cost-constrained environment
- Optionality in projects
- Who has a valid interest in the project?
- Part 9: Challenging projects
- Taking over the project no-one is running
- Not seeing the wood for the trees
- The customers who do not know what they want
- Delivering in times of change
- Part 10: The improving project manager
- Learning from projects
- Best practice, continuous improvement and accreditation
- Adopting a new project management approach.
- Building a project delivery capability
- Glossary
- Index.