Richard Newton

Project Management Book, The (eBook, ePUB)

How to Manage Your Projects To Deliver Outstanding Results

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Produktbeschreibung

The Project Management Book addresses the real-life scenarios and issues that anyone responsible for managing a project is likely to face on a day to day basis. It provides solutions to the everyday issues involved in managing projects, including:

• Defining your project
• Understanding your role as a project manager
• Dealing with external problems
• Learning from Lean and Six Sigma
• Delivering projects in times of change
• It also includes a handy glossay of project management jargon

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pearson HigherEducation
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Altersempfehlung: ab 18 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. April 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780273788799
• Artikelnr.: 39247952

Autorenporträt

Richard Newton is a consultant, author and company director. His specialist expertise is helping companies improve their capabilities in project and change management. For the last 8 years he has run his own specialist consultancy, working with a range of blue chip clients, with whom he works worldwide. He has worked in the public sector, telecoms and media, mining, oil and gas, and financial services. Richard regularly speaks at conferences and public events and posts articles in a variety of journals and online sites.

Inhaltsangabe

 
 
Preface
 
Introduction
 
PART 1: THE FOUNDATIONS
Projects
Project management
The role of the project manager
Customers, clients and users  
 
PART 2: SETTING UP YOUR PROJECT
Defining your project
Objectives, deliverables and tasks
Building a plan
Estimating and resourcing
 
PART 3: UTILISING THE TEAM, SPONSOR AND STAKEHOLDERS
The high-performance project team
Global and offshore teams
The effective sponsor
A productive stakeholder community
 
PART 4: DELIVERING THE PROJECT
Managing progress: perform, deliver, accomplish
What project managers need to know
Understanding project risk
Value-added project reporting
 
PART 5: PRACTICAL PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Making risk management real
The temptations and costs of multi-tasking
The right and wrong uses of the plan on a page
Audit, assure, control or coach the project?
 
PART 6: THE PROJECT ENVIRONMENT
Prioritisation
The culture of delivery
The limits to planning and prediction
Dealing with external problems
 
PART 7: INTEGRATED PROJECT MANAGEMENT
The strengths and limits of project management
Bridging the divide: project and change managers
From delivery to benefits realisation
The lessons from lean and six sigma
 
PART 8: ALIGNING PROJECTS TO BUSINESS  NEEDS
High-speed project management
Delivering in a cost-constrained environment
Optionality in projects
Who has a valid interest in the project?
 
PART 9: CHALLENGING PROJECTS
Taking over the project no-one is running
Not seeing the wood for the trees
The customers who do not know what they want
Delivering in times of change
 
PART 10: THE IMPROVING PROJECT MANAGER
Learning from projects
Best practice, continuous improvement and accreditation
Adopting a new project management approach
Building a project delivery capability
 
GLOSSARY
INDEX