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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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Newton, Richard, 1964-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Harlow, England ; New York : Pearson, Ã2013.
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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.