This comprehensive exploration of the project management processpresents the tools, steps, and processes of project management anduncovers the critical thinking — the why — vital to projectmanagement excellence. Incorporating Kepner-Tregoe?s renowned andeffective problem-solving and decision-making processes, the bookguides you through the core activities of projectmanagement?planning, solving problems, making decisions, andassessing risk. It positions projects within an organization?s’performance environment, ‘ an understanding of which is essentialfor effective team performance and alignment. Offering acombination of overarching insights into organizational dynamics, as well as specific processes and practices for effectivemanagement, this is a resource no project leader — and no projectteam member — should be without.
Table of Content
1. The Missing Pieces of the Project Management Puzzle.
Project Management as the New Imperative.
Project Management Unplugged.
Project Management in Action.
The Stuff of Projects.
Today’s Projects: What Makes Them Different?
Today’s Game Is Speed.
Disembodied Goals.
The Ebb and Flow of Today’s Teams.
The Competition for Resources.
The Revolving Door.
The Penchant for Complexity.
Projects Aren’t Going Away.
The Missing Pieces of the Project Management Puzzle.
What’s Ahead.
2. Project Definition.
Why Are We Doing This Project?
State the Project.
Develop Objectives.
Develop the Work Breakdown Structure.
Identify Resource Requirements.
Additional Definition Topics.
3. Project Planning.
Assign Responsibility.
Sequence Deliverables.
Schedule Deliverables.
Schedule Resources.
Protect and Enhance the Plan.
Enhance the Plan.
Additional Planning Topics.
Planning Summary.
4. Project Implementation.
Are You Ready to Do the Work?
Start to Implement.
Monitor the Project.
Modify the Project.
Closeout and Evaluate.
Additional Implementation Topic.
Implementation Summary.
5. Managing People in Projects.
Influencing People.
The Performance System.
Involving People.
Communicating with People.
Meetings and Communication.
Summary.
6. Project Decision Making and Problem Solving.
Situation Appraisal.
Decision Analysis.
Problem Analysis.
Decision-Making and Problem-Solving Summary.
7. Installing Project Management within an Organization.
Ensuring Systematic Use of Project Management.
Installing Project Management.
How Should You Install Project Management in Your Organization?
A Final Word on Project Management.
Index.
About the author
ANDREW LONGMAN is a partner and Vice President of Marketing at Kepner-Tregoe, a consultancy specializing in strategic andoperational decision making and critical thinking, withheadquarters in Princeton, New Jersey.
JIM MULLINS is a Senior Consultant and Worldwide Product Managerfor e Think®, Kepner-Tregoe’s enterprise-wide software productfor tracking and improving organizational problem solving anddecision making.
www.kepner-tregoe.com
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