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Managing amidst rapid change : management approaches for dynamic environments /
The ability to deliver value in dynamic environments has become an essential skill for today's project managers given the ever increasing rates of change driven by deregulation, the information age, and globalization. Managing Amidst Rapid Change responds to this new reality with specific manag...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Newtown Square, Pennsylvania :
Project Management Institute,
[2015]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo (Requiere registro previo con correo institucional) |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Case Studies; List of Abbreviations; Foreword; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter Summaries; Chapter 1
- Introduction; Chapter 2
- Dynamic Environments; Chapter 3
- Dynamic Planning; Chapter 4
- Dynamic Control; Chapter 5
- Dynamic Culture and Communication; Chapter 6
- Dynamic Leadership and Decision Making; Chapter 7
- Dynamic Experimentation; Chapter 8
- Dynamic Practitioner Guide
- Principles and Techniques; Data Sources; Interviews and Focus Groups; Interview Participants; Focus Group Participants
- Publications Emanating from the ResearchChapter 2: Dynamic Environments; What is Dynamism?; Why Traditional Needs Tweaking; What is Different about Dynamic Projects?; What's the Key Challenge for Dynamic Projects?; Alternate High-Level Approaches; Compatibility with the PMBOK® Guide; Extending the PMBOK® Guide; Dynamism Examples; Changing Materials, Resources, Tools, and Techniques During the Project Life Cycle; Changing Relationships with Other Related Projects, Services, or Products; Changing Goals; Can we Resist Dynamism?; What can we do about Dynamism?; Knowing to Customize your Approach
- What about Dynamic CapabilitiesWhat about Agile?; What about Complexity?; Is Dynamism your Biggest Problem?; Definitions; Summary; Chapter 3: Planning for Dynamic Environments; Introduction; The Traditional Approach; Dynamic Planning; Single-Version Projects
- Iterative Planning Only; Multi-Version Projects
- Fully Iterative; Dynamic Planning Examples; Staging with Gates; Simplification
- Smallest Possible Stage 1; Simplification and Staging Examples; Contract Terms; Calculating the Cost of Lost Opportunity; Summary; Chapter 4: Dynamic Control; Static Project Control using the Plan
- Input and Output ControlDiagnostic, Belief, Interactive and Boundary; Analogy
- Driving to a Destination; Analogy
- Delivering a Package Destination; Examples of Dynamic Control; Summary for Dynamic Control; Chapter 5: Dynamic Culture and Communication; Culture and Communication Approaches for Dynamic Environments; Exploration Culture; Egalitarian and Collaborative; Fewer Rules; Faster and More Informal Communication; Dynamic Culture Examples; Dynamic Communication Examples; Summary for Dynamic Culture and Communication; Chapter 6: Dynamic Leadership and Decision Making
- Balancing Stability with FlexibilitySituational Awareness; Swift Trust; Rapid Decision Making; Rapid Feedback Loop; Clear Authority; Devolved Responsibility; Focus on Pragmatism; Developed Alternatives; Pre-Planned Responses; Political Skills; Experience; Courage to Say No; Courage to be Realistic; Examples of Decision Making; Examples of Leadership Style; Summary; Chapter 7: Dynamic Experimentation; Structured Experimentation; Competing Experiments; Fail as Quickly and Cheaply as Possible; Moonshot Projects; Moonshot Portfolios; Practitioner Examples of Competing Experiments
- Chapter 8: Dynamic Practitioner Guide
- Principles and Techniques