Case Studies in Project, Program, and Organizational Project Management [Elektronisk resurs]

• CASE STUDIES IN PROJECT, PROGRAM, AND ORGANIZATIONAL PROJECT MANAGEMENT; Contents; Preface; Structure of the Book; The Principles of Management; Acknowledgments; Part I: CASE STUDIES IN PROJECT MANAGEMENT; Chapter 1: INTRODUCTION; AaronSide Goes to Teams; Cocable Inc.; A RobustArm Global Industries' Sledgehammer; Another Trojan Horse; Call a Truck; The Project Hand-off Method; Chapter 2: CULTURAL ASPECTS OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT; Engineering Culture at Beck; The Jamming; Chapter 3: PROJECT MANAGEMENTP ROCESSES; Special Session; Waterfall Software Development; Extreme Programming; Do You ZBB?. 
• Chapter 4: PROJECT INTEGRATION MANAGEMENTThe Abacus Project; The Ticketing System; WRQ Software Development; Chapter 5: PROJECT SCOPE MANAGEMENT; Workshop: Project Definition; Work Breakdown Structure as a Skeleton for Integration; Project Anatomy; Rapid Prototype for Fast Profits; Chapter 6: PROJECT TIME MANAGEMENT; How Long Does It Take to Catch a Fish-TAD?; Workshop: The Jogging Line in Action; Sequencing; The Rolling Wave; Schedule Accuracy; AtlasCom; Workshop: The Milestone Chart; Chapter 7: PROJECT COST MANAGEMENT; The Court House Disaster; Bad Metrics for Earned Value. 
• The Museum CompanyWorkshop: Parametric Estimate; No Bottom-up Estimate, No Job!; Earned Tree Analysis; Chapter 8: PROJECT QUALITY MANAGEMENT; Robots Fail Too; The Peaceful Black Belt; Workshop: Project Quality Program; Chapter 9: PROJECT HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; The Bully, Subversive, Prima Donna, Etc.; Startups Born with Conflicts; We Do Not Speak the Same Language; My Job Was to Integrate Two Cultures; Rate and Rank; Chapter 10: PROJECT COMMUNICATIONS MANAGEMENT; The Russians Join Us Late at Night; Quest for Clear; Electronic Medical Record; Improving Public Health Informatics. 
• A Simple Metric Goes a Long WayExecutive Project Metrics; Chapter 11: PROJECT RISK MANAGEMENT; Risk Policies in Project Russia; Risk under the Microscope; Monte Carlo in Italy; Probability and Impact; Chapter 12: PROJECT PROCUREMENT MANAGEMENT; The 30,000 Frigidaire; Mountain of Iron, Mountain of Dollars; Part II: CASE STUDIES IN PROGRAM MANAGEMENT; Chapter 13: THEMES OF PROGRAM MANAGEMENT; KUPI; The Bounding Box Boxes You; Chapter 14: PROGRAM INITIATING PROCESS; Business That Operated Without Knowing Where Its Profits Came From; Mega Security ®; Chapter 15: PROGRAM PLANNING PROCESS. 
• Quick ReleaseThe Budica Program; Best Practices Overview-Program Scheduling; Expect the Unexpected; Chapter 16: PROGRAM EXECUTING PROCESS; The Program Strike Zone; The Program Map; Using Tools on a Mercedes; Chapter 17: PROGRAM MONITORING AND CONTROLLING PROCESS; I Have Only Three Minutes a Month!; OSSOP!; That Which Is Not Earned Is Never Valued; Chapter 18: PROGRAM CLOSING PROCESS AND PROGRAMS IN ACTION; A Checklist; General Public Hospital; American Shogun; Planet Orbits; ConSoul Software; Part III: CASE STUDIES IN ORGANIZATIONAL PROJECT MANAGEMENT. 
• Chapter 19: ALIGNMENT AND PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT. 

• The ever expanding market need for information on how to apply project management principles and the PMBOK contents to day-to-day business situations has been met by our case studies book by Harold Kerzner. That book was a spin-off from and ancillary to his best selling text but has gained a life of its own beyond adopters of that textbook. All indications are that the market is hungry for more cases while our own need to expand the content we control, both in-print and online woudl benefit from such an expansion of project management "case content". The authors propose to produce a book of ca 

Ämnesord

Project management -- Case studies. 

Project management -- Standards. 

Genre

Electronic books.  (LCSH)

Klassifikation

HD69.P75 C375 2010 (LCC)

658.4/04 (DDC)

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