The Superior Project Organization

The Superior Project Organization

Author: Frank Toney

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2001-09-06

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 9780824706388

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This text describes global best practices, competencies, and standards of superior project organizations based on research conducted by the Top 500 Project Management Forum. It details the results of seven years of benchmarking and the bottom line value of project organizations in large functional enterprises. The text also highlights enhancements in professional image, job performance, and personal earnings.


The Superior Project Manager

The Superior Project Manager

Author: Frank Toney

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2001-09-06

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9780824706395

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Describes global best practices, competencies, and standards of superior project organizations based on research conducted by the Top 500 Project Management Forum. It emphasizes the selection process, performance evaluation, and personnel development to provide the key elements for adjusting and adapting to flexible conditions. The text also highlights enhancements in professional image, job performance, and personal earnings.


Project Management for Business Professionals

Project Management for Business Professionals

Author: Joan Knutson

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2002-02-28

Total Pages: 625

ISBN-13: 047103875X

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No longer restricted to the engineering industry, project management has at long last crossed over to mainstream business. Project Management for Business Professionals is the definitive reference on the essentials of contemporary project management. Featured here are some of the foremost practitioners and researchers from academia, consulting, and private industry, sharing their various areas of project management expertise and providing a wide range of perspectives on everything from risk management to resource planning to ethics management. Focusing on both the technical and human sides of the field, this unique resource follows the main points of the "project management body of knowledge"-the certification standard of the Project Management Institute. The experts address the procedures and processes for planning and managing projects and explore project team/group dynamics, examining the interpersonal relations and the political and organizational considerations that can impact a project.


Advanced Project Management

Advanced Project Management

Author: Frederick Harrison

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-03-02

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 1351960709

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When Advanced Project Management first appeared it quickly acquired a reputation for excellence on both sides of the Atlantic as a book that successfully bridges the gap between introductory texts on project management and specialist works on professional practice. Its aim is twofold: to provide a guide for managers, engineers, accountants and others involved in project work, and a reference for advanced students of project and construction management. This fourth edition of the book has been heavily revised, with substantial material to reflect the changes in project management. The following topics are either new to the book or have been given greater emphasis: ¢ Project definition and appraisal ¢ Procurement and the supply chain ¢ Concurrent engineering ¢ Cost and management accounting ¢ Quality management ¢ More detailed explanations of critical path analysis, now predominantly using the precedence system ¢ Increased treatment of resource scheduling ¢ Planning with multiple calendars ¢ Planning within fixed time constraints, using crashing and fast-tracking methods ¢ Standard networks, modules and templates ¢ Risk management.


Optimizing Human Capital with a Strategic Project Office

Optimizing Human Capital with a Strategic Project Office

Author: J. Kent Crawford

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2005-09-01

Total Pages: 405

ISBN-13: 1420031074

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Optimizing Human Capital with a Strategic Project Office explores the SPO's potential to transform an enterprise by making the most of people within an organization. This volume provides an exhaustive review of topics such as the hiring, retention, measurement, training, and professional development of knowledge workers in project management


Project Management for Libraries

Project Management for Libraries

Author: Robin A. Buser

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2014-10-16

Total Pages: 229

ISBN-13: 0786496061

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Library work often involves coordinating projects with many tasks and many stakeholders where cost and time limitations can be seen as opportunities. Effective project management is worth learning! This book provides library staffers at every level--whether in public, academic, school or special libraries--with the basic tools of project management so that they can gain confidence and an expectation of success. Part I covers the terminology, the philosophy, the resource management and the return on investment of project management. Part II introduces the basics of the methodology designed by the Project Management Institute. Part III discusses practical techniques for specific types of library projects, gives an introduction to agile management, features success stories in library project management and describes available software. The book includes many examples of project management. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.


The Strategic Project Office

The Strategic Project Office

Author: J. Kent Crawford

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2010-09-22

Total Pages: 394

ISBN-13: 1439838135

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The second edition of this award-winning reference provides step-by-step instructions for establishing and maturing a project management office (PMO). Concise and easy to read, The Strategic Project Office, Second Edition covers the four primary areas of knowledge and practice regarding the PMO: governance and portfolio management, resource optimiz


Cost and Value Management in Projects

Cost and Value Management in Projects

Author: Ray R. Venkataraman

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2011-08-26

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 1118174186

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Cost and Value Management in Projects provides practicing managers with a thorough understanding of the various dimensions of cost and value in projects, along with the factors that impact them, and the managerial approaches that would be most effective for achieving cost efficiency and value optimization. This book addresses cost from a strategic perspective, offering thorough coverage of the various elements of value management such as value planning, value engineering and value analysis from the perspective of projects.


Project Management Maturity Model

Project Management Maturity Model

Author: J. Kent Crawford

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2006-07-24

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 0849379466

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Assisting organizations in improving their project management processes, the Project Management Maturity Model defines the industry standard for measuring project management maturity.Project Management Maturity Model, Second Edition provides a roadmap showing organizations how to move to higher levels of organizational behavior, improving


Project Management

Project Management

Author: Gerold Patzak

Publisher: Linde Verlag GmbH

Published: 2011-12-22

Total Pages: 509

ISBN-13: 3714302247

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Modern project management is increasingly important, as it is very well suited for fulfilling today’s demands on companies, especially regarding the efficient cooperation of individuals, as well as the development of a goal- and solution-oriented approach.A project can be understood as a temporary company, since all essential enterprise management functions must be performed in projects as well. The project management approach applied in the present book is a holistic management concept. In addition to project planning and control, it also covers the topics of teamwork, communication, and the organizational integration of projects into companies.This book provides a guideline for performing individual projects, for professionally selecting projects that are vital for company success (project portfolio, program), for improving project management quality, and for consequently focusing company work on the current environmental requirements (project-oriented company). Additionally, numerous practical examples and case-studies of different project types illustrate the implementation of the presented methods.Further relevant aspects of today’s project management approaches, such as projects as business cases, procurement and contract design, virtual teamwork, project management career paths, agile project management, or Stage-Gate approaches are integrated into the actual edition. This book contributes to the further development of project management knowledge, and to the establishment of a professional project manager profile. Requirements on competencies and qualifications of project managers are integrated according to the international IPMA and PMI standards.