Goal Directed Project Management: Effective Techniques and Strategies - Brossura

Andersen, Erling S.; Grude, Kristoffer V.; Haug, Tor; Katagiri, Mike; Turner, J. Rodney

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0749441860 ISBN 13: 9780749441869

Casa editrice: Kogan Page Ltd, 2004

Riassunto

<div>""Well argued and authoriative . . . a very helpful approach to a subject which is central to the business of managing change in modern organizations."" -- The Industrial Society</div>

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Informazioni sull?autore

Erling S. Andersen is professor of information systems and project management at the Norwegian School of Management BI, Oslo, Norway.

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1 Introduction

Outline

About PSO projects

Goal Directed Project Management

2 Project characteristics

A unique task

Attainment of a specific result

Requires a variety of resources

Time constraints

Project management

3 Pitfalls in project management

Cracks in the foundation

Pitfalls in planning

Pitfalls in organizing

Pitfalls in controlling

Pitfalls in execution of project work

Avoiding pitfalls

4 Foundation of the project

Purpose and goals of project

Mission breakdown structure

Stakeholders and stakeholder analysis

Project mandate

Division of responsibility between base and project: the principle responsibility chart

Small example: Project 'excellent physical work environment'

5 Global planning -- milestone planning

Principles of project planning

Segmentation of project

Practical milestone planning

6 Global organizing -- milestone responsibility chart

Principles of project organization

Responsibility charts

Milestone responsibility chart -- responsibilities for achieving milestones

Time scheduling and resource estimation at global level

Uncertainties of the project

7 Detail planning and detail organization

Principles of project activity planning

Activity planning

8 Project control

What is control?

Principles of project control

Controlling activities

Controlling milestones

9 Quality in project work

Significance of project quality

Procedures to increase quality

Quality of planning documents

10 Project culture

A good project culture

Top management

Line management

Project owner

Steering committee

Project manager

Elected representatives

A projectivity programme

11 Goal Directed Project Management -- example and summary

Forms

IT support

Example project 'New possibilities in new premises'

Is the 'requirement specification' fulfilled?

Final comments

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Kogan Page Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0749441860
• ISBN 13: 9780749441869
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 3
• Numero di pagine: 256
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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