The project management book / Richard Newton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Newton, Richard, 1964- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Project management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (297 pages)

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

Harlow, England : Pearson, [2013]

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

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

Contents:

Cover

Contents

About the author

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 temptaions 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

Hight-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.

Notes:

Includes index.

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ISBN:

9780273788805

0273788809

OCLC:

846529643