Project planning and project success : the 25% solution / Pedro Serrador, PhD.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Serrador, Pedro, author.

Series:

Best practices and advances in program management series.

Best Practices and Advances in Program Management Series

Auerbach Book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Project management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (224 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

Boca Raton : CRC Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Project planning is generally accepted as an important contributor to project success. However, is there research that affirms the positive impact of project planning and gives guidance on how much effort should be spent on planning? To answer these questions, this book looks at current literature and new research of this under-studied area of project management. The author presents his findings from an extensive review of project planning literature that covers more than 270 sources. He also discusses new research that analyzes data from more than 1,300 global projects. The book confirms that

Contents:

Front Cover; Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1: Spectacular Project Failures; Chapter 2: Academic History of Planning; Chapter 3: Reasons Not to Plan; Chapter 4: Project Success and Planning: What Are They?; Chapter 5: Efficiency versus Success; Chapter 6: Planning Variation by Industry; Chapter 7: Geography and Industry and Success; Chapter 8: Planning in the Construction Industry; Chapter 9: Planning in Information Technology; Chapter 10: Practical Planning Impacts on Success: A Software Development Case Study; Chapter 11: Planning and Success in General Project Management

Chapter 12: Consensus on Planning and SuccessChapter 13: Planning Deliverable Quality and Success; Chapter 14: How Much to Plan; Chapter 15: Planning Phase Effort and Success; Chapter 16: What Is the Optimum Planning Phase Time?; Chapter 17: Planning Budgets and Success; Chapter 18: Planning and Agile/Iterative Methods; Chapter 19: Agile Methods and Success; Chapter 20: Planning's Importance to Manager Success; Chapter 21: New Research: Planning and Manager's Success; Chapter 22: Conclusions; Abbreviations; Checklists; Appendix A: The Original Research

Appendix B: Details of the Statistical AnalysisAppendix C: Details of the Survey; Appendix D: Final Model Sensitivity Analysis; References; Back Cover

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-209) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 16, 2015).

ISBN:

1-04-005509-5

0-367-37810-8

0-429-09067-6

1-4822-0553-X

9780429090677

OCLC:

897459237