Kategoria BISAC: Business & Economics >> Project Management

Projects are all around us, from the research paper we are currently working on to the major organizational changes we observe in companies. They are a purposeful, time-limited integration of diverse knowledge to reach a unique outcome, and therefore, useful vehicles to manage deliberate change initiatives within and beyond organisations, from the launch of a new product to the acquisition of a new firm.

Especially in the 2000s we have seen a rapid expansion of project management, popularization and use of project management across different businesses, so that project and project...

Manufacturing processes, scientific experiments, research programs, tax collection systems, are all endeavors once born as projects. Project engineering is the application of science to the development and analysis of project plans, and to the supervision of their realization. This book is a unified treatise on the technology of project planning and execution. It provides a systematic understanding of the different methodological approaches to the development and supervision of project plans. Readers are given a technical introduction to the main methodologies, such as graphs, activity...

A guide to Microsoft Project that focuses on developing a successful project management strategy across the organization to drive better decisions

Making Effective Business Decisions Using Microsoft Project goes far beyond the basics of managing projects with Microsoft Project and how to set up and use the software. This unique guide is an indispensable resource for anyone who operates within a Project Management Operation (PMO) or is affected by the adoption of project management within an organization. Its focus is to provide practical and transitional information...

This A to Z style toolkit for successful projects is a compendium of proven methods, techniques, nuts and bolts, developed and used during the author's career as a Project Manager. Users will be able to select from refreshers, techniques, tips, and suggestions and an extensive supply of checklists. Ideal for those with some knowledge and experience who need sound advice quickly, it will also benefit relative novices and students, who will find pragmatic guidelines on a topic-by-topic basis, plus a comprehensive glossary of terms to decode project management jargon. Note that it is based on...

This research contributes to the bodies of knowledge in the general management, knowledge management, project management, network analysis, and system dynamics disciplines. The primary contribution is the proof of a holistic business methodology that elicits the capacity of an organisation to engage effectively in its activities, particularly within project-program and project-portfolio environments. The methodology, which I have called Business Network Analysis, bridges the instrumental and social action management discourses to help managers mobilise and leverage knowledge assets, and to...

Outlines an approach for setting up effective IT infrastructures in organisations. This book details how to create IT infrastructure rather than simply describe how to manage the IT function or software development. It covers various aspects needed to manage this type of project in an organization successfully.

Offers real-life examples of PMO success stories, and provides a practical roadmap to setting up an effective PMO. This book provides readers with an understanding of the value a PMO can provide, and the knowledge they need to first determine the purpose of their PMO, and to then craft a PMO best suited to the fulfillment of that purpose.

Covers how to choose specific, workable actions to integrate Agile and traditional project management methods and overcome the obstacles to their inevitable merger. This book helps new and experienced project managers, as well as students of the discipline, proactively prepare for and ensure their future success.

Life is complicated. If we can simplify the job of getting things done, the better off we usually are. This is particularly important in managing projects. In this book, Gary (Gazza) tackles the complexity of managing projects by breaking the essential components of Project Management down into practical, simple concepts. Whether you simply have an interest in Project Management or are already managing them, this book has something for you.

For most people, we remember things best when they are accompanied by music, or are part of a story. While there is no musical score to this book,...

A major change in business can be overwhelming. The level of complexity in systems, processes, procedures, and people can create an increased risk which would lead to failure. Business card provides an easy to understand approach to identify and manage all of the associated activities from strategic planning to functional level changes. It's as easy as playing cards.

Erfolgs-Methodik und Vorgehensweisen fur die Planung und Vorbereitung komplexer Vorhaben mit Anwendungsbeispielen und wertvollen Tipps, ubertragbar auf samtliche Projektarten. Dieses Buch unterstutzt Sie als Projektleiter/in Ihre Projekte, trotz aller Unsicherheitsfaktoren, gut vorzubereiten und gezielt zum Erfolg zu fuhren. Anhand von praktischen Beispielen und Empfehlungen werden Sie schrittweise an die Erfolgsfaktoren fur Ihr Projekt herangefuhrt. Die Tipps lassen sich auf alle Unternehmen, Branchen und Projektarten ubertragen."

There has been a sea-change in the focus of organizations - whether private or public - away from a traditional product- or service-centricity towards customer-centricity and projects are just as much a part of that change. Projects must deliver value; projects must involve stakeholders, and Elizabeth Harrin and Phil Peplow demonstrate convincingly that stakeholders are the ones who get to decide what value actually means. Customer-Centric Project Management is a short guide explaining what customer-centricity means in terms of how you work and its importance for project performance; using...

Perspectives and Techniques for Improving Information Technology Project Management discusses the variety of information systems and how it can improve project management and, likewise, how project management can affect the growth of information systems. Using new frameworks, technologies and methods, this comprehensive collection is useful for professionals, researchers and software developers interested in learning more on this emerging field.

A guidebook for product development professionals in technology organizations. A step-by-step guide to creating and managing risks in a development program. Includes an interactive PDF version for global collaboration.

Project management lessons learned on the Big Dig, America's biggest megaproject, by a core member responsible for its daily operations

In Megaproject Management, a central member of the Big Dig team reveals the numerous risks, challenges, and accomplishments of the most complex urban infrastructure project in the history of the United States. Drawing on personal experience and interviews with project engineers, executive oversight commission officials, and core managers, the author, a former deputy counsel and risk manager for the Big Dig, develops new insights as she...

The latest edition of Project Management has been significantly revised to include important new developments in the field. The previous editions of this best-selling book from Rory Burke have been widely used on university degree programmes, executive management training courses, planning software courses and professional certification.

Features:

• Reflects changes in the new versions of the bodies of knowledge of PMI(R) (Project Management Institute based in America) and the APM (British Association for Project Management)
• 7 additional...

A step-by-step guide to perform and establish debriefs or postmortems in product development organizations in order to improve performance and productivity. Includes an interactive PDF version for global collaboration.

Get your projects done without having a Master's Degree in Project Management

There is no shortage of books on project management, yet most of those guides are weighed down with tiresome project management-speak and heavy process. This easy-to-use, step-by-step, plain English guide to project management shows readers how to hit ground running and nail the completion of projects.

For beginners who find themselves in charge of a project but have no clue where to start or those who are struggling or feel overwhelmed, Project Management Lite focuses...

The Oxford Handbook of Project Management presents and discusses leading ideas in the management of projects. Positioning project management as a domain much broader and more strategic than simply 'execution management', this Handbook draws on the insights of over 40 scholars to chart the development of the subject over the last 50 years or more as an area of increasing practical and academic interest. It suggests we could be entering an emerging 'third wave' of analysis and interpretation following its early technical and operational beginnings and the subsequent shift to a focus on projects...