Practical Project Management (eBook)
400 Seiten
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-0-471-25638-0 (ISBN)
management techniques.
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HARVEY A. LEVINE has been a project management professional for thirty-nine years, providing applications, system design, and consulting services in project planning and control, mostly with General Electric. In 1986, Levine founded the Project Knowledge Group, a consulting firm specializing in project management training; project management software selection, evaluation, and implementation; and project management using computers. He has also served on the board of directors of the Project Management Institute and was recently elected a Fellow of PMI.
Acknowledgments.
Preface.
1. Setting Up the Project Management Operation.
1.1 About Projects and Project Management.
1.2 Organizing for Project Management.
1.3 Does Your Company Need a CPO?
1.4 Implementing a Computer-based Project Management
Capability.
2. Getting Started.
2.1 Project Initiation Techniques.
2.2 Do You Weebis? Clarifying WBS, OBS, and RBS.
2.3 Project Life Cycles.
3. Scheduling.
3.1 Critical Path Scheduling.
3.2 Critical Path, Critical Chain, and Uncertainty: Exploring
Concepts of Shared Contingency.
3.3 Estimating Task Durations.
3.4 How Important Are Schedules and Time Compression?
3.5 Practical Scheduling.
4. Resource and Workforce Management.
4.1 An Overview of the Different Elements of Resource
Management.
4.2 Role-based Needs for Managing Resources in a Project-driven
Organization.
4.3 Resource Leveling and Games of Chance.
4.4 Practical Resource Scheduling.
5. Budgeting and Cost Control.
5.1 Concepts and Issues of Project Budgeting and Cost
Control.
5.2 Software Support for Cost Management.
6. Risk Management and Contingency.
6.1 Using and Managing Contingency.
6.2 Risk Management for the Sigmaphobic: Managing Schedule, Cost,
and Technical Risk and Contingency.
6.3 Some Computer-based Approaches to Schedule Risk Analysis.
7. Maintaining the Plan.
7.1 Change Control and Scope Management.
7.2 Real-time Status versus Period Data.
7.3 Automatic Project Management: A Classic Oxymoron.
8. Performance Measurement.
8.1 Measuring the Value of Work Accomplishment.
9. Project Portfolio Management.
9.1 Defining and Implementing Project Portfolio Management.
9.2 Bridging the Gap between Operations Management and Projects
Management: The Important Role of Project Portfolio
Management.
9.3 Project Selection and Risk: Risk Management Is an Essential
Part of Project Portfolio Management.
10. Project Management, Enterprise Project Management, and
Enterprise Resource Planning.
10.1 The Search for Automated, Integrated, Enterprise-wide Project
Management: Minnesota Smith and the Temple of Unrealized
Dreams.
10.2 Integrating PM and ERP.
11. Project Management and Professional Services Automation.
11.1 Defining the PSA Market.
11.2 Building PSA Solutions.
12. Tools of the Trade.
12.1 A Simplified and Balanced Approach to PM Software
Selection.
12.2 New Names for Old Games: Rebadging Sound and Proven PM
Concepts.
12.3 The e Revolution: Collaboration Services, B2B, Gateways.
13. Making Project Management Work.
13.1 Implementing Project Management: Commitment and Training
Ensure Success.
13.2 Making Project Communication Work: Everything You Need to Know
about Project Communication.
13.3 Why Project Management Implementation Programs Fail.
13.4 Teams, Task Forces, and Bureaucrats.
13.5 The Psychological Contract: How to Stimulate Initiative and
Innovation in Any Organization.
13.6 Shared Rewards.
Index.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 15.10.2002 |
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Sprache | englisch |
Themenwelt | Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Projektmanagement |
Schlagworte | Business & Management • Industrial Engineering • Industrial Engineering / Project Management • Industrielle Verfahrenstechnik • Projektmanagement • Projektmanagement i. d. Industriellen Verfahrenstechnik • Strategic Management • Strategisches Management • Wirtschaft u. Management |
ISBN-10 | 0-471-25638-2 / 0471256382 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-471-25638-0 / 9780471256380 |
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