How to manage projects : essential project management skills to deliver on-time, on-budget results
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- ISBN: 9780749488697
- ISBN: 0749488697
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Physical Description:
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vii, 238 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm - Publisher: London ; Kogan Page, 2019.
- Copyright: ©2019
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Machine generated contents note: 01. Project success is more than just one thing -- How to use this book -- 02. accidental project manager: What is this going to take? -- What is a project? -- 03. Where does a project manager fit in the organization? The role of the PMO -- If a PMO exists -- What if a PMO does not exist? -- 04. Project governance -- Governance team guidance -- project's governance team: fit and function -- governance team: form -- governance team: operational considerations -- 05. Project scope: Defining it, managing it, changing it and avoiding creep -- Defining the scope -- Buy-in -- Change control -- Involve your friendly organizational lawyer -- 06. project quality plan -- Meet the customer's requirements -- Small mistakes enable big successes (aka prototyping) -- Design for tolerance of variation and interactions -- Regulatory and compliance plan -- 07. Different types of project lifecycle models -- classic waterfall project lifecycle -- V-model -- rapid prototyping lifecycle -- Agile concept -- blended lifecycle -- reality -- 08. Planning the project: Schedule management (time management) -- What is an activity? -- Sequencing the activities -- Estimating the durations of the activities -- Scheduling the activities -- Managing the schedule -- 09. project staffing plan -- Staffing -- Defining the resource need -- skill traceability -- Schedule timing and resource loading -- Resource management -- 10. Design and configuration management -- deadly serious example -- So who is responsible for managing configuration management? -- Formally defining configuration management -- Configuration management and project requirements -- Design traceability matrix -- Capturing the configuration and the supporting system for using it -- 11. Cost planning and cost management -- Tendencies towards managing outcomes and money -- Current data, historical data, and estimates vs contracted prices -- project plan, the components and your organization -- Cost management or driving through the rear-view mirror -- 12. project's supply chain plan -- note on vertical integration -- Take a balanced approach -- How to develop a supply chain plan -- 13. Project execution: Tracking, updating, reporting and acceptance -- best-laid plans -- Monitoring and re-planning -- Tracking frequency -- Types of check-in -- Keeping everyone up to date -- Upward reporting: frequency, purpose, structure and style -- Getting acceptance -- 14. Evaluation, lessons learnt and improving the next project -- Evaluate like an airline -- Where does an evaluation fit?. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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The Pas Campus Library | HD 69 .P75 F5425 2019 (Text) | 58500000079905 | Stacks | Volume hold | Available | - |