Project Planning and Project Success: The 25% Solution

ISBN-13: 9780367378103 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 228 str.

Pedro Serrador

Opis

Although project planning is known to be critical to project success, it remains a relatively under-studied area of project management research. This book draws on a literature review of planning that covers more than 270 sources. It also discusses new research that analyzed data from more than 1,300 global projects. The book brings this under-studied area of knowledge to the forefront. It emphasizes that planning is required for project success and that shortchanging planning will have a negative impact on project success.

Spis treści

Spectacular Project Failures. Academic History of Planning. Reasons Not to Plan. Project Success and Planning: What Are They? Efficiency versus Success. Planning Variation by Industry. Geography and Industry and Success. Planning in the Construction Industry. Planning in Information Technology. Practical Planning Impacts on Success: A Software Development Case Study. Planning and Success in General Project Management. Consensus on Planning and Success. Planning Deliverable Quality and Success. How Much to Plan. Planning Phase Effort and Success. What Is the Optimum Planning Phase Time?. Planning Budgets and Success. Planning and Agile/Iterative Methods. Agile Methods and Success. Planning’s Importance to Manager Success. New Research: Planning and Manager’s Success. Conclusions.

O autorze

Pedro Serrador, PMP, ITIL, P.Eng., MBA, PhD is a senior project/program manager with more than 20 years of experience. He is a teacher, writer, speaker, and researcher on project management topics. His specialties are studying aspects of project success and managing technically complex and high risk project consulting engagements.

He holds an Hons. BSc in Physics and Computer Science from the University of Waterloo, Canada and an MBA from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland. He is an accredited professional engineer in computer engineering and has been a PMP since 2000. He holds a PhD in Strategy, Programme & Project Management at SKEMA Business School (Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Lille).