Book description
Discover How to Dramatically Improve the Processes of Project-Based Management in Any Organization!
One of the most influential books ever written on the development of project management, The Handbook of Project-Based Management has been completely revised for a new generation of students and practitioners. The Third Edition now features a major change in focus from delivering corporate objectives to achieving strategic change, including embedding corporate change after a project is completed.
Filled with over 150 illustrations, The Third Edition of The Handbook of Project-Based Management contains:
- A rigorous guide to project management practice for the twenty-first century
- Complete tools for managing project performance and process
- New to this edition: new focus on achieving strategic change; new information on the project life cycle; new applications to different industries; new material on strategic design, stakeholders, and organizational capability; shift in emphasis from administrative procedures to governance
Inside this Cutting-Edge Guide to Twenty-First Century Project Management
• The Context of Projects: • Projects for Delivering Beneficial Change • Project Success and Strategy • The People Involved • Managing Performance: • Scope • Project Organization • Quality • Cost • Time • Risk • Managing the Process: • Project Process • Project Start-Up • Project Execution and Control • Project Close-Out • Governance of Project-Based Management: • Project Governance • Program and Portfolio Management • Developing Organizational Capability • Governance of the Project-Based Organization • International ProjectsTable of contents
- Cover Page
- The Handbook Of Project-Based Management
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1: Leading Change through Projects
- Part 1: Managing the Context
- Part 2: Managing Performance
- Part 3: Managing the Process
- Part 4: Governance of Project-Based Management
- Appendix A: Project Definition Report for the CRMO Rationalization Project
- Appendix B: Project Control Documents for the CRMO Rationalization Project
- Index
Product information
- Title: The Handbook of Project-based Management, 3rd Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: October 2008
- Publisher(s): McGraw-Hill
- ISBN: 9780071549752
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