The project management book / / Richard Newton

• Autore: Newton Richard <1964->
• Pubblicazione: Harlow, England : , : Pearson, , [2013]; ©2013
• Edizione: 1st edition
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (297 pages)
• Disciplina: 658.4/04
• Soggetto topico: Project management
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: The project management book
• ISBN: 0-273-78880-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910151651003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II