Project Management
Douban
Dr Harvey Maylor
overview
Project Management is a fast-growing and increasingly 'professionalised' discipline with record numbers of practitioners now gaining the PRINCE qualification. The formal tools and techniques of project management are being applied in an ever-wider range of industries and organisations. As a mainstream skill, critical to business success, and under closer scrutiny for the benefits it delivers, it's important the students of today and practitioners of tomorrow can rely on a comprehensive and contemporary text to support their learning. Drawing on the author's 20 years of teaching, research and consulting experience, Harvey Maylor's latest edition of Project Management delivers this in style.
contents
List of figures and tables
Guided tour
Preface
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Publisher’s acknowledgements
Making sense of the project context
1 Introduction
2 Structures and frameworks
3 Projects and organisations
Managing the project process: the 4-D model
D1: Define it
4 Stakeholders, strategy and success
5 Initial planning
D2: Design it
6 Time planning
7 Rethinking time planning: the critical chain approach
8 Cost and benefit planning
9 Stakeholders and quality
10 Risk and opportunities management
D3: Do it
11 Project organisation: structures and teams
12 Management and leadership in projects
13 Control
14 Supply chain issues
15 Problem-solving and decision-making
D4: Develop it
16 Project completion and review
17 Improving project performance
Index