The project workout : the ultimate handbook of project and programme management / Robert Buttrick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Buttrick, Robert, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Project management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxvi, 530 p.) : ill.

Edition:

Fourth edition.

Place of Publication:

Harlow, United Kingdom : FT Prentice Hall, is an imprint of Pearson, 2013.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

This interactive text takes the reader step-by-step through project management, acting as a valuable executive companion to delivering successful projects and managing portfolios of projects to drive a business forward.

Contents:

Cover

The Project Workout

Contents

List of Project Workouts

Foreword by Robert Heller

Acknowledgments

Preface to the Fourth Edition by Ian Livingston

Introduction

Part One: Challenges To Be Faced

Challenges We Need to Face

Problems, more problems

Initiatives fail, are cancelled or never get started - why?

Advice the Best Organisations Give Us

The study

The lessons and their implications

But we're different! - organisational context

Conclusion

Part Two: A Walk Through a Project

The Project Framework: An Overview of its Gates and Stages

Projects as vehicles of change

Internal and customer-facing projects

Stages and gates

The project framework

Some key questions

How can I apply the framework?

Who Does What?

The players

The Proposal: Identify the Need!

Overview

Key deliverable

Process steps

The Initial Investigation Stage: Have a Quick Look at It!

Key deliverables

The Detailed Investigation Stage: Promising... Let's Have a Closer Look

The Develop and Test Stage: Do It!

The Trial Stage: Try It Out

The Release Stage: Let's Get Going!

The Post-Implementation Review: How Did We Do?

Applying the Staged Framework

Four types of project

Fittingin to the staged framework

Small stuff, or 'simple' projects

Agile or rapid projects

'Just do it' projects - loose cannons

Big stuff, or projects and subprojects

Work packages

The extended project life cycle

A Few Related Projects: Simple Programmes

Simple programmes

Sharing projects - interdependencies.

Part Three: Dealing with Many Projects

Portfolios of Projects

The Business Programme

What's different about Business Programme management?

Managing the portfolio

Prerequisites for effective portfolio management

There are Too Many Projects to Do!

Principles for selecting projects

Project authorisation

Selecting the right projects

Far too many projects!

Putting the brakes on

Have I Got the Resources?

Conditions for total resource planning

White space - the freedom to change

How can I meet the three conditions?

How detailed does resource forecasting need to be?

An Environment for Managing Your Portfolio

New structures for old

Support offices

The tools to help it work - systems

Lists - keeping tabs on your projects

Harnessing web technology

What would such a system look like?

Management accounting systems

Putting your systems together

Part Four: Making Projects Work for You

Project Teams and Style

Culture - the way we do things around here

Project teams

Leadership and influence

I thought you were doing that! - accountability

Project Setup

How to go about it

Set up the project team

Prepare a project definition

Prepare the project plan

Define your project organisation

Engage your stakeholders

Managing Benefits

Benefits and drivers

Forecasting benefits

Timing of benefits

Managing the Schedule

The project schedule

Summary and detailed schedule plan

Tracking progress toward your objectives

Schedule reports

Reports used when drafting a plan

Report used to update the forecast

Reports used for progress reporting

So why are we nearly always late?

Managing the Finances

The financial plan

Financial management controls

Estimating the costs

Authorisation to spend funds.

Recording actual costs and committed costs

Financial reporting

Earned value

Managing What Might Go Wrong (Or Right): Risks and Opportunities

Considering possible risks and opportunities

Addressing risk at the start of the project

Addressing opportunities at the start of the project

Monitoring once the project is in progress

Tips on using the risk and opportunity log

More sophisticated risk evaluation techniques

Managing What Has Gone Wrong (or Right!): Issues

What do we mean by 'issues'?

When an issue is identified

Tips on using the issues log

Let's Do it Differently!: Change Control

Controlling change

The change control process

Accountabilities for change decisions

The change request form

Reviews and More Reviews

Keeping sight of the objectives

Review when a proposal is raised

Review at the Detailed Investigation Gate

Reviews during the project

Project closure review

Post-Implementation Review

Recording agreement - quality reviews

Closing the Project

Project closure

The closure report

The closure meeting

Closure actions

Part Five: Implementing the Framework

Implementing the Framework

Advice from other organisations

Corporate maturity

Finding help in implementing a project's approach

Justifiably different - tailoring

A strategy for implementation

Appendix A: Glossary

Appendix B: A project process framework

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9786612529825

9780273745273

0273745271

9781282529823

128252982X

9780273723905

0273723901

OCLC:

1015864654