The Complete Project Management Office Handbook

The Complete Project Management Office Handbook

Author: Gerard M. Hill

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2004-08-02

Total Pages: 586

ISBN-13: 1135490082

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Today's project managers find themselves in the dual roles of technical expert and business leader. As project management has evolved, the need has emerged for an organizational entity to manage complexities and ensure alignment with business interests. A project management office (PMO) coordinates technical and business facets of project management and achieves the goals of oversight, control, and support within the project management environment. The Complete Project Management Office Handbook identifies the PMO as the essential business integrator of the people, processes, and tools that manage or influence project performance. This book details how the PMO applies professional project management practices and successfully integrates business interests with project goals, regardless of whether the scope of the PMO is limited to managing specific projects or expanded to the level of a full business unit. People at all levels of the project and business spectrum will benefit from this volume. The Handbook focuses on how to establish PMO functionality to meet the requirements of project stakeholders. It presents 20 pertinent PMO function models, providing guidance for developing PMO operating capability that is applicable to any organization. It also presents these functions relative to five stages of progressive PMO development along a competency continuum, demonstrating potential PMO growth from simple project control up through its alignment within a strategic business framework.


Fundamentals of Project Management for Development Organizations, 2nd Edition

Fundamentals of Project Management for Development Organizations, 2nd Edition

Author: PM4DEV

Publisher: Paola Diaz

Published: 2009-05

Total Pages: 142

ISBN-13: 0557048737

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The second edition of Fundamentals of Project Management incorporates a new approach to learn the basic elements of project management in the development context. At the end of each chapter we have included a review section designed to go through the important lessons in the chapter, the answers to the questions can be found at the end of the book. The book also features updated graphs and additional diagrams to help readers understand the concepts presented throughout the book. The book provides a simple reference to the modern project management concepts that are required by international development organizations dedicated to assistance and humanitarian relief. Size 6x11


The World Class Project Manager

The World Class Project Manager

Author: Robert K. Wysocki

Publisher: Perseus (for Hbg)

Published: 2001-02-08

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 0738202371

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A soup-to-nuts guide to developing superior project-manager skills and competencies--from two of the most respected authorities in the field.


Managing Sustainable Development Programmes

Managing Sustainable Development Programmes

Author: Gran Brulin

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-05-13

Total Pages: 221

ISBN-13: 1317101405

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Project work, driven by competent project leaders drives positive outcomes. Unfortunately these optimistic initial results are often short-sighted with few evaluations of their long-term impact. The research contained in Managing Sustainable Development Programmes reveals an extraordinary level of failure in the durability of large change programmes and projects in both the private and public sectors. In this book the authors question whether sustainable development be achieved within the framework of large publicly financed programmes. This strong critique of traditional programme implementation overturns much of our current thinking about project delivery and governance. The authors focus instead on sustainable change and development. They show how active ownership and collaboration between different actors and the dynamics of developmental learning can be used to create programmes and projects that contribute to innovation, employment and growth in a way that favours companies, employees, customers and society in a broader sense. The message at its heart is 'don't blame the project leader' but rather look for dynamic possession of projects, joint knowledge management and sharing with external stakeholders that will secure long-term effects.


GAO Documents

GAO Documents

Author: United States. General Accounting Office

Publisher:

Published: 1985

Total Pages: 924

ISBN-13:

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Catalog of reports, decisions and opinions, testimonies and speeches.


The Project Management Paradigm

The Project Management Paradigm

Author: Ken Burnett

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 1447106172

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Introduction The changing business environment, of global operations, mergers, decen tralization, increased competition, pressure on budgets etc. , has contributed to a positive change in the workplace. As this change continues, we must keep up to date and follow good standards, principles and practices. To help, we present the 'Paradigm of Project Management', which is based on a simple practical approach to managing projects. The method is flexible and may be applied to any project, although in this book we concentrate on the devel opment of systems. However, it also illustrates that the formation and management of project teams are changing in line with technology. As Dr Tom Peters says: 'Stability and predictability are gone forever . . . '. For example, project teams may work from home (telework), using email and groupware along 'electronic highways'. Therefore, instead of going through a pyramid of people to reach an executive, one can use the Internet, an intranet or an extranet and go direct. Another change is represented by the transient teams and Get -it -Done working approaches. An example of how a global project was managed is one in which Malaysia's International Shipping Corporation (MISC) implemented MISC*Net, a networking project to link online all of its shipping agents worldwide to its HQ in Malaysia. Project management was a key component in the solution prior to awarding the contract. IBM and MISC worked on the International Project Management System.


New Directions in Project Management

New Directions in Project Management

Author: Paul C. Tinnirello

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2001-09-26

Total Pages: 561

ISBN-13: 1420000160

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Organizations that rely on computing technology for survival understand the critical importance of managing projects that meet strategic goals and objectives. The diversity of business globalization and electronic commerce combined with the unceasing pace of technical change continues to challenge efforts for more proficient project management tech


International Development Projects

International Development Projects

Author: Ruggero Golini

Publisher: Project Management Institute

Published: 2013-09-01

Total Pages: 147

ISBN-13: 1628251182

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In International Development Projects: Peculiarities and Managerial Approaches, researchers-practitioners from two of Italy's most prestigious universities provide practical insights into this phenomenon...and how the lessons learned in this high stakes international arena can help anyone managing projects that span companies, cultures and continents. Incorporating the wisdom of almost 500 experienced ID project managers, as well as the latest in academic research, this book provides an unprecedented look at the unique characteristics of ID projects, the methods being used to manage them and the specific tools and processes that most often lead to success.