James P. Lewis

Mastering Project Management: Applying Advanced Concepts to Systems Thinking, Control & Evaluation, Resource Allocation

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Produktbeschreibung

Take charge of your teams and lead them to victory! For nearly a decade, Mastering Project Management, has been the field's gold standard reference. Now, James Lewis has updated his classic guide, offering both practical, real-world guidance and a focus on higher-level tools and applications that you won't find anywhere else. This fully revised second edition shows project managers and team leaders from all industries how to ramp up and fine-tune managing skills and bring all projects to a successful completion. Carefully avoiding any overlap from his other popular project management titles, Lewis clearly defines your role as a project manager and outlines the steps to mastering project management. Lewis has also included the most up-to-date information on today's hot-button topics in the field, providing the know-how you need to: Utilize the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) Survive "no-win" projects Apply Six Sigma in project management Improve estimating capability Manage project risks Identify customer requirements Control costs Understand systems thinking and apply it to projects Lewis shows you how to manage multicultural project teams, coach team members for improved performance, and deal effectively with project stakeholders. He gives you an arsenal of tools for utilizing systems thinking, achieving optimal decision-making, reporting project status, and managing project change and configuration control. Lewis also covers the human element, showing you the most effective ways to conduct interviews, manage meetings, conduct performance reviews, and handle vendors and contractors. If you want to be more than a casual project manager, if you desire to understand every function in your organization, if you aspire to higher management levels, the second edition of Mastering Project Management is your personal guide to success.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: McGraw-Hill Professional
• 2nd ed.
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. September 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 160mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 740g
• ISBN-13: 9780071462914
• ISBN-10: 0071462910
• Artikelnr.: 22851384

Autorenporträt

James P. Lewis, Ph.D. (Vinton, VA) is the founder of The Lewis Institute, Inc., a association providing project management and behaviorial consulting and training. Dr. Lewis has more than 20 years of project management experience and has trained more than 20,000 supervisors and managers around the world.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: what it's all about
Chapter 1: So you want to master project management
Chapter 2: The job of managing
Chapter 3: Integrating leadership and management
Chapter 4: Leading to Learn and Learning to Lead.....Dr. Tom Boldrey
Chapter 5: Whole brain project management
Chapter 6: HT Achieve High performance Project management
Chapter 7: Power and Politics for Project management
Chapter 8: Dealing with cultural differences
Chapter 9: Defining Success and Failure
Chapter 10: Organizing for project management
Part 2: Tools and Techniques
Chapter 11: A Review of the Standard Tools
Chapter 12: The need for systems thinking in project management
Chapter 13: Understanding Systems thinking
Chapter 14: HT Apply systems thinking in managing projects
Chapter 15: Managing project Risks
Chapter 16: Improving decisions in projects
Part 3: Planning
Chapter 17: Developing a Shared Understanding of a Project
Chapter 18: Identifying Customer Requirements
Chapter 19: Managing resources in project Scheduling
Chapter 20: Scheduling Uncertainty in projects
Part 4: Control
Chapter 21: Tracking progress to Achieve project Control
Chapter 22: Accounting and Cost control
Chapter 23: Change control in project
Chapter 24: Managing vendors in projects
Chapter 25: Conducting project reviews
Chapter 26: managing quality projects
Part 5: Optimizing Project performance
Chapter 27: Improving project management processes
Chapter 28: Improving Estimating capability
Chapter 29: Managing Innovation in projeects