Project management for performance improvement teams / H. James Harrington and William S. Ruggles.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harrington, H. J. (H. James), author.

Ruggles, William S., author.

Series:

Little big book series (Boca Raton, Fla.)

Little Big Book Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Portfolio management.

Teams in the workplace.

Organizational effectiveness.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (185 pages)

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

Boca Raton, Florida ; London, [England] ; New York : CRC Press, 2018.

Language Note:

English.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Project Management for Performance Improvement Teams (or, PM4PITs, for short) provides practical guidance based on innovative concepts for project teams -- especially Performance Improvement Teams (PITs)—and their Project Managers on how to successfully complete individual projects and programs using an ingenious and scalable framework based on an innovative foundation fusing together elements of Project Management, Innovation Management, and Continual Improvement. This book lays out how Project and Program Managers and their teams can "do those right projects the right way," one project at a time. It details what continual improvement, change, and innovation are, why they are so important, and how they apply to performance improvement—both incremental and transformative. The authors examine the four types of work and workforce management in organizations, Strategic, Operations, Projects, and Crises, using four common comparative variables: Proactive/Preventive versus Reactive/Corrective, Temporary/Unique versus Ongoing/Repetitive, Innovative versus Maintaining the Status Quo, and Schedule Focus: Fiscal Year versus Short Term versus Long Term. These comparisons set the stage for the uniqueness of the third type: Projects (and Programs) that are fundamentally change-driven.

Contents:

About the author

Introduction

The traditional frameworks for project management for continual improvement

A contemporary framework for applying project management to continual improvement for performance improvement teams

Project change management

Project technology management

Chatper 5. stage #1: Align the project

Stage #2: Plan the project

Stage #3: Execute the project work

Stage #4: Check-act-on the latest performance data

Stage #5: Confirm the results (iterate?)

Sustaining the gains and realizing the benefits

Connecting with the organization's pmo

Epilogue

Glossary of terms

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Online resource; Title from title page (viewed March 9, 2018)

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781466572560

1466572566

9781351643962

1351643967

9781315117683

1315117681

OCLC:

1102269498