The Evolution of Project Management Practice: From Programmes and Contracts to Benefits and Change

ISBN-13: 9781138080140 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 208 str.

Darren Dalcher

Opis

Project practice has undergone significant changes requiring new ways of thinking about and managing projects. The main aims of the collection are to reflect on the state of practice within the discipline; to propose new extensions and additions to good practice; to offer new insights and perspectives; to distil new knowledge; and, to provide a way of sampling a range of the most promising ideas, perspectives and styles of writing from some of the leading thinkers and practitioners in the discipline. Key topics covered include agility and programme management, planning, people, business cases, contracts, teams, sponsorship, collaboration, strategy, patterns, context, change, and benefits.

Spis treści

List of figures  List of tables  About the editor  Notes on contributors  Introduction: the evolution of project practice Darren Dalcher  1. Programme management  The temporal boundaries of projects and programmes Darren Dalcher  New developments in programme management Michel Thiry  2. Planning  Why planning is more important than plans Darren Dalcher  Foresight saga: pursuing insight through chaos and disaster Mike Lauder  3. People Rethinking the social element of projects Darren Dalcher  The social project manager: balancing collaboration with centralised control in a project-driven world Peter Taylor  4. Business case  Business cases, benefits, and potential value Darren Dalcher  The case for project net present value (NPV) and NPV risk models Martin Hopkinson  5. Contracts  Thinking in contracts: the role of intelligent procurement Darren Dalcher  Planning for contract management Louise Hart  6. Teams  Thinking teams, performing teams, and sustaining teams Darren Dalcher  VUCA and the power of emergence teams Tom Cockburn and Peter A. C. Smith  7. Sponsorship  The unspoken role of sponsors, champions, shapers, and influencers Darren Dalcher  Exercising agency: making a difference in how projects are initiated Mark Mullaly  8. Collaboration  The essence of collaboration Darren Dalcher  Leading extreme projects: strategy, risk, and resilience in practice Alejandro Arroyo and Thomas Grisham  9. Strategy  Thinking in patterns: problems, solutions, and strategies Darren Dalcher  Bridging the gap: effective transition from strategy development to strategy execution Lucy Loh and Patrick Hoverstadt  10. Context  Why situational awareness remains essential Darren Dalcher  An introduction to a typology of projects Oliver F. Lehmann  11. Change  Living with the inherent paradox of change Darren Dalcher  Enterprise-wide transformation programmes do not succeed without change management! Sankaran Ramani  12. Benefits  So where do benefits come from? Darren Dalcher  Managing programme benefits Andrew Hudson  Conclusion Darren Dalcher  Index

O autorze

Darren Dalcher is Professor of Project Management at the University of Hertfordshire. He has written over 200 papers and book chapters and published over 30 books. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Software: Evolution and Process and of two established book series published by Routledge.