Managing Project Delivery: Maintaining Control and Achieving Success (eBook)

Trish Melton (Autor)

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2008 | 1. Auflage
312 Seiten
Elsevier Science (Verlag)
978-0-08-055906-3 (ISBN)

Infos

A practical handbook for career project managers and those involved intermittently with projects throughout their career.
Brief and visually led, Managing Project Delivery gets to the point, giving you the knowledge and confidence to manage project benefits and increase the certainty of success.
Focused on the needs of engineering and technical Project Managers, but generic enough to support projects in other areas such as business change, IT and product development.
Supported by downloadable on-line project benefits management tool templates that enable the techniques developed in the book to be applied in practice.
Comprehensive real world case studies demonstrate the use of tools.
Successful projects are the basis for the business many successful organisations, but many professionals lack the basic skills required to manage projects successfully. This book shows how to maximise the outcomes of projects and to ensure that the benefits arising from projects -- large or small -- are fully realized by the business. This key outcome can be easily overlooked or sidelined by the need to keep projects on track.
Managing Project Delivery provides simple yet powerful tools to ensure that projects deliver on their goals in a controlled and accountable manner. It is the first of four project management titles that separately build skills and together provide a powerful project management resource.
* A practical handbook for career project managers and those involved intermittently with projects throughout their career.
* Brief and visually led, Managing Project Delivery gets to the point, giving you the knowledge and confidence to deliver projects and increase the certainty of success.
* Focused on the needs of both engineering and technical Project Managers, but generic enough to support projects in other areas such as business change, IT and product development.
* Supported by downloadable on-line project delivery tool templates that enable the techniques developed in the book to be applied in practice.
* Comprehensive real world case studies demonstrate the use of tools.
* Project delivery is the third stage of the project lifecycle. This book shows how to maintain control and forecast the project outcome. Provides expert advice, tried-and-tested techniques and a delivery toolkit to address:
• Business alignment
• Value delivery
• Control and forecasting

Director of MIME Solutions Ltd, a UK-based PM Consultancy. She has worked for organizations including AstraZeneca, GSK, and Eli Lilly, and has clients in the UK and US.

Inhalt

Front cover 1
Managing project delivery: maintaining control and achieving success 4
Copyright page 5
About the authors 6
About the project management essentials series 8
Foreword 10
Acknowledgements 12
How to use this book 14
Contents 16
Chapter 1 Introduction 20
The project life cycle 20
Aims 21
What is project delivery? 22
Why we need controlled project delivery 24
The delivery hierarchy 29
The project health check 31
And remember… 33
Chapter 2 Project, programme and portfolio delivery 34
What's the difference? 34
Delivering projects, programmes and portfolios 36
Steering projects, programmes and portfolios 42
Managing projects, programmes and portfolios 43
And finally… 45
Chapter 3 Business plan delivery 46
What is a project business plan? 46
How to manage delivery of a project business plan 46
Sponsorship 51
Tool: Business Plan Review Checklist 55
Tool: Communications Tracker 61
Benefits management 66
Tool: Benefits Totalizer 68
Tool: Benefits Delivery Fault Tree 70
Business change management 74
Tool: Sustainability FMEA 80
Tool: Stakeholder Engagement Tracker 82
Tool: Business Change Mitigation Matrix 86
Business plan delivery case study – production capacity improvement 89
Troubleshooting business plan delivery 100
Handy hints 103
And finally… 103
Chapter 4 Set-up plan delivery 104
What is a project set-up plan? 104
How to manage delivery of a project set-up plan 104
Project organization 108
Tool: Tracking RACI 117
Tool: Team Issues Tool 118
Tool: Project Team Audit Tool 119
Project type 121
Funding strategy and finance management 126
Scope management and delivery 134
Tool: Scope Tracker 138
Set-up plan delivery case study – purchasing business process improvement 142
Troubleshooting set-up plan delivery 155
Handy hints 157
And finally… 158
Chapter 5 Control plan delivery 160
What is a project control plan? 160
How to manage delivery of a project control plan 160
Risk and issue management 163
Tool: Project Risk Profile 168
Tool: Project HACCP (parts a and b) 173
Tool: Issue Action Manager 176
Contract and supplier management 178
Tool: Contract Tracker 182
Tool: Supplier Performance Management Tool (parts a and b) 183
Project control strategy 190
Tool: Project Control Tracker 197
Project review 204
Tool: Project Waste Analysis Tool 206
Tool: Project Diagnosis Fishbone 210
Control plan delivery case study – construction project 212
Troubleshooting control plan delivery 221
Handy hints 223
And finally… 223
Chapter 6 When projects go wrong 224
Case study A – business change project 226
Case study B – IT project 231
Case study C – product launch project 235
Case study D – biopharma facility project 238
Case study E – petrochemicals facility project 241
And remember… 244
Chapter 7 Case Study One: capital engineering project 246
Situation 246
Project delivery 249
Conclusions 269
Lessons learnt 269
Chapter 8 Case Study Two: accounts system improvement 270
Situation 270
Project delivery 273
Conclusions 292
Lessons learnt 294
Chapter 9 Appendices 296
Appendix 9.1 – The 'Why?' Checklist 297
Appendix 9.2 – The 'How?' Checklist 298
Appendix 9.3 – The 'In Control?' Checklist 301
Appendix 9.4 – The 'Benefits Realized?' Checklist 303
Appendix 9.5 – The Project Management Toolkit 304
Appendix 9.6 – The Planning Toolkit 305
Appendix 9.7 – The Benefits Management Toolkit 306
Appendix 9.8 – Glossary 307
Appendix 9.9 – References 309
Index 310
A 310
B 310
C 310
D 310
E 311
F 311
G 311
H 311
I 311
K 311
L 311
M 311
P 311
Q 311
R 311
S 311
T 312
U 312
V 312
W 312

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.12.2008
• 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: 0-08-055906-9 / 0080559069
• ISBN-13: 978-0-08-055906-3 / 9780080559063