Project Management Toolkit: The Basics for Project Success (eBook)

Expert Skills for Success in Engineering, Technical, Process Industry and Corporate Projects

Trish Melton (Autor)

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2011 | 2. Auflage
300 Seiten
Elsevier Science (Verlag)
978-0-08-055008-4 (ISBN)

Infos

This book provides you with the tools required to approach and manage projects. These effective skills will impact positively on the success of both the projects you are involved with and of your organization.

Key features
* A practical handbook for both career project managers and those involved intermittently with projects throughout their career
* Provides simple step-by-step tools for understanding and managing each of the project value-add stages:
- Developing a business case
- Robust planning
- Staying in control
- Delivering benefits
* Focussed on the needs of engineering and other technical project managers, but generic enough to support projects in other areas
* Brief and visually led, the Toolkit is designed to get you up and running fast and to increase the certainty of a positive project outcome from day one
* Comprehensive real world case studies demonstrate the use of tools
* Supported by downloadable online project planning templates that enable the techniques developed in the book to be applied in practice

Project Management Toolkit introduces the whole project life-cycle. It is the first of four project management titles that separately build skills in critical PM areas and together provide a powerful project management resource.

. Focussed on the needs of engineering and other technical project managers, this book recognises that most non-routine work completed by an organization is a project
. A practical, hands-on guide to aid those tasked with real industry projects - not a lengthy theoretical textbook, it gets to the point and delivers REAL benefits
. Fully supported by online project planning and delivery tools, templates, workflow organizers and data sheets, the book is suitable for both career project managers and those involved with projects intermittently

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This book provides you with the tools required to approach and manage projects. These effective skills will impact positively on the success of both the projects you are involved with and of your organization. Project Management Toolkit introduces the whole project life-cycle. It is the first of four project management titles that separately build skills in critical PM areas and together provide a powerful project management resource. - Focused on the needs of engineering and other technical project managers, this book recognises that most non-routine work completed by an organization is a project- A practical, hands-on guide to aid those tasked with real industry projects not a lengthy theoretical textbook, it gets to the point and delivers REAL benefits- The book is suitable for both career project managers and those involved with projects intermittently

Inhalt

Front cover 1
Project Management Toolkit 4
Copyright page 5
Contents 16
About the author 6
About the Project Management Essentials series 8
Foreword 10
Acknowledgements 12
How to use this book 14
Chapter 1 Introduction 20
Aims 21
Management by project 22
The Project Manager 24
Chapter 2 The project life-cycle 26
What is a project? 26
What is the project life-cycle? 26
Why do projects fail? 27
The ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ side of project management 29
Chapter 3 Stage One: why? 32
Why? 33
Tool: ‘Why?’ Checklist 34
Tool: Benefits Hierarchy 39
Tool: Benefits Specification Table 45
Tool: Business Case Tool (value-add or not?) 51
Case study A — if only the ‘Why?’ Checklist had been around then! 56
Case study B — using the ‘Why?’ Checklist to stop a project 59
Case study C — using the why tools to justify a project 61
Handy hints 69
Further reading 70
And finally… 70
Chapter 4 Stage Two: how? 72
How? 72
Project delivery planning 73
Tool: ‘How?’ Checklist 75
Tool: Stakeholder Management Plan 83
Tool: Table of Critical Success Factors 89
Tool: RACI Chart 94
Tool: Control Specification Table 98
Case study D — if only the ‘How?’ Checklist had been around then! 103
Case study E — using the ‘How?’ Checklist to re-plan a project 108
Case study F — using the how tools to plan a project 113
Handy hints 124
Further reading 124
And finally… 125
Chapter 5 Stage Three: in control? 126
In control? 126
Control strategy 127
Tool: ‘In Control?’ Checklist 128
Tool: Risk Table and Matrix 138
Tool: Earned Value 143
Tool: Project Scorecard 147
Case study G — if only the ‘In Control?’ Checklist had been around then! 149
Case study H — using the in control tools to stop a project 153
Case study I — using the in control tools to review a project 159
Handy hints 166
Further reading 166
And finally… 167
Chapter 6 Stage Four: benefits realized? 168
Sustainability 169
Tool: ‘Benefits Realized?’ Checklist 171
Tool: Benefits Tracking Tool 175
Tool: Project Assessment Tool 179
Tool: Sustainability Checklist 184
Case study J — if only the ‘Benefits Realized?’ Checklist had been around then! 188
Case study K — using the benefits realized tools to redevelop a project 191
Case study L — using the benefits realized tools to review a project 196
Handy hints 203
Further reading 203
And finally… 204
Chapter 7 Case Study One: the pharma facility project 206
Situation 209
Stage One — Business Case Development 211
Stage Two — Project Delivery Planning 218
Stage Three — Project Delivery 230
Stage Four — Benefits Realization 243
Chapter 8 Case Study Two: the business change project 250
Situation 254
Stage One — Business Case Development 256
Stage Two — Project Delivery Planning 267
Stage Three — Project Delivery 283
Stage Four — Benefits Realization 293
Index 304
A 304
B 304
C 304
D 304
E 304
F 305
G 305
H 305
I 305
J 305
M 305
O 305
P 305
R 305
S 305
T 305
U 305
V 305
W 305

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.4.2011
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Chemie ► Technische Chemie
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Bauwesen
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Elektrotechnik / Energietechnik
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Maschinenbau
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Projektmanagement
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management
• ISBN-10: 0-08-055008-8 / 0080550088
• ISBN-13: 978-0-08-055008-4 / 9780080550084