Effective Project Management (eBook)

Robert K. Wysocki, Ph.D., has over 40 years' experience as a project management consultant and trainer, information systems manager, systems and management consultant, and training developer and provider. He is the founder of Enterprise Information Insights, Inc., a project management consulting and training practice. Wysocki has also written 15 books on project management and information systems management.

Preface to the Fourth Edition.Acknowledgments.Introduction.Part I: Traditional Project Management.Chapter 1: What Is a Project?Chapter 2: Traditional, Adaptive, Extreme: A Dynamic ProjectManagement Landscape.Chapter 3: Defining the Project.Chapter 4: Building the Work Breakdown Structure.Chapter 5: Estimating Duration, Resource Requirements, andCost.Chapter 6: Constructing and Analyzing the Project NetworkDiagram.Chapter 7: Finalizing the Schedule and Cost Based on ResourceAvailability.Chapter 8: The Need to Plan: Conducting the Joint ProjectPlanning Session.Chapter 9: Building and Managing an Effective Project Team.Chapter 10: Monitoring and Reporting Project Progress.Chapter 11: Closing Out the Project.Chapter 12: Critical Chain Project Management.Part II: Adaptive Project Framework.Chapter 13: Introduction to the Adaptive Project Framework.Chapter 14: Version Scope.Chapter 15: Cycle Plan.Chapter 16: Cycle Build.Chapter 17: Client Checkpoint.Chapter 18: Post-Version Review.Chapter 19: Extreme Project Management and Other Variations toAPF.Part III: Organizational Considerations.Chapter 20: Project Portfolio Management.Chapter 21: Project Support Office.Epilogue: Putting It All Together Finally.Appendix A: What's on the Web Site?Appendix B: Bibliography.Index.