Reconstructing project management / Peter W.G. Morris.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morris, Peter W. G.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Project management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (343 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chichester, England : Wiley-Blackwell, c2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This hugely informative and wide-ranging analysis on the management of projects, past, present and future, is written both for practitioners and scholars. Beginning with a history of the discipline's development, Reconstructing Project Management provides an extensive commentary on its practices and theoretical underpinnings, and concludes with proposals to improve its relevancy and value. Written not without a hint of attitude, this is by no means simply another project management textbook. The thesis of the book is that 'it all depends on how you define the subject'; that muc

Contents:

Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Figures; Tables; About the Author; Preface; Introduction; Structure and Thesis of the Book; Take-Aways; References and Endnotes; Part 1: Constructing Project Management; 1: Introduction to Part 1; Historical Method; Bespeaking Relevant Knowledge; References and Endnotes; 2: Project Management before it was Invented; Pre-History: Projects and Society; Managing engineering projects: the master mason; Military projects; The rise of the professional engineer: integration is threatened; Health and safety; Supra projects

Early Attempts at Formal Project IntegrationProject coordination; World War II and the Manhattan Project; References and Endnotes; 3: Systems Project Management; USAF Integration: The Formal Recognition of Project Management; Schriever and the Atlas Program; Concurrency and configuration management; Polaris; PERT and CPM; Construction; The Harvard Business Review Introduces the Project Manager!; McNamara and the Bureaucracy of Systems; Apollo: Configuration Management and Project Leadership; DoD Bureaucratisation; Externalities; The US Super-Sonic Transport and Concorde

Second-generation systems project managementEnergy and Commodities Projects; Nuclear Power; The Extractive Industries; References and Endnotes; 4: The Project Management Knowledge Base; The PMBOK® Guide; Theoretical Underpinnings; Operations research; Integration; Critical success factor studies; 'The Management of Projects'; 'The Management of Projects' Paradigm versus 'Execution Delivery'; The APM, IPMA, and Japanese BOKs; 'Management by projects'; Quality Management; New Product Development: Lessons from Toyota; Wheelwright and Clark; Concurrent engineering; Academic Engagement

References and Endnotes5: Developing Project Management; IMEC: 'Large Engineering Projects'; Contracting and Procurement; The 'total procurement package' concept; Partnering and the new Procurement Environment; The Andrew oil field; Risks and Opportunities; Flyvbjerg et al.: Transportation Projects and Optimism Bias; BOT/PFI; Value and Benefits; Health, Safety, and Environment; Defence Projects; Software Projects and Standish; Technology and Requirements Management; Agile Project Management; Information and Communications Technology (ICT); Critical Chain; Program Management

The New Accommodation Programme (NAP)Developing Enterprise-Wide p.m. Capability: The US Department of Energy (DoE)/NRC Study; References and Endnotes; 6: Enterprise-Wide Project Management (EWPM); Strategy and Governance; PMOs; Best Practice Guidelines and Maturity; Critical Management; Learning and Development; Project Management as a Career Track; References and Endnotes; 7: The Development of Project Management: Summary; Part 2: Deconstructing Project Management; 8: Introduction to Part 2; The Domain; Deconstructing Deconstruction; Approaching the Management of Projects

Levels 1-3 in the Management of Projects

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from title page (ebrary, viewed May 9, 2013).

ISBN:

9781118536698

111853669X

9781118536919

1118536916

9781299385863

1299385869

9781118536926

1118536924

OCLC:

831118735