Project Management for Business Professionals

A Comprehensive Guide
1. Auflage 2001
ISBN: 978-0-471-38033-7
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons

Buch, Englisch, 596 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 1066 g

"Project Management for Business Professionals" ist ein umfassender Leitfaden zum Projektmanagement. Über 20 Spitzenexperten aus Lehre, Beratung und Industrie erörtern die aktuelle Situation des Projektmanagement in Unternehmen und beschreiben detailliert alle Merkmale, die eine hervorragende Praxis kennzeichnen. Besprochen werden die wichtigsten Ansätze sowie aktuelle bewährte Methoden und Verfahren für die Umsetzung in die Praxis. Ein besonderer Schwerpunkt liegt dabei auf organisatorischen Aspekten des Projektmanagement mit jeweils eigenen Kapiteln zu Earned Value Management, Negotiation Management und Expectations Management. Das Buch ist in zwei Abschnitte unterteilt - in einen technischen und einen organisatorischen Teil - und folgt im wesentlichen den Hauptpunkten des Zertifizierungsstandards des Project Management Institute. Das ideale Nachschlagewerk für jeden Fachmann mit Projektverantwortung. Mit einer Fülle von praktischen Beispielen.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Knutson, Joan

Knutson

Myilibrary

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Projektmanagement

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments.

Preface.

About the Contributors.

INTRODUCTION.

Overview: The Discipline of Project Management (D. Cleland).

Transition: The Project-Driven Organization (J. Knutson).

THE TECHNICAL TRACK.

Portfolio Management: Overview and Best Practices (J. Crawford).

Scope Management: Do All That You Need and Just What You Need (S. Globerson).

Requirements Management: Addressing Customer Needs and Avoiding Scope Creep (J. Frame).

Schedule Management: Seeing the Future by Mapping Out the Present (C. Pritchard).

Accounting and Financial Management: Finding the Project's Bottom Line (F. Toney).

Risk Management: Maximizing the Probability of Success (R. Westney).

Contracts and Procurement Management: Why Should You Care? (R. Mulcahy).

Earned Value Management: An Introduction (J. Koppelman & Q. Fleming).

Information Management: For the Project Manager in an Information Age (M. Hynes).

Project Closeout Management: More Than Simply Saying Good-Bye and Moving On (T. Cooke-Davies).

Multiple Project Management: Responding to the Challenge (J. Nevison).

Process Automation in Project Management: Today (V. Quinn).

Computer-Aided Project Management: Tomorrow (C. Belack).

eBusiness Project Management: The Future Is Today (D. Bienkowski).

THE HUMAN DIMENSIONS TRACK.

Organizational Project Management: Concept (R. Bauhaus).

Creating a Professional Project Management Organization: Design (J. Schneidmuller).

Organizational Deployment of Project Management: The Next Big "Aha" for Corporate Project Leaders (R. Storeygard).

Professional and Personal Development Management: A Practical Approach to Education and Training (R. Wideman & A. Shenhar).

Ethics Management: Are You Really Protected? (C. Daw).

Conflict Management: Opportunity for Relationship Building and Effective Decisions (G. Pitagorsky).

Role Management: The Integrative Roles in Project Management (R. Archibald).

Culturally Diverse Management: A Vital Skill for Managing Global Projects (V. Verma).

Expectations Management: Reconfirming Assumptions (M. Mayer).

Participative Management: Getting the Most from Your Team (P. Martin & K. Tate).

Virtual Team Management: Building a Successful Virtual Team (M. Haywood).

Team Infrastructure Management: Project Team Planning and Project Start-Up (D. Ono & R. Archibald).

Team Management: Working Effectively (H. Thamhain).

CONCLUSION.

Project Management: The Future (J. Pinto).

Index.

Über Autor(innen)

JOAN KNUTSON is President of PMSI-Project Mentors, a part of the Provant solution. Knutson has been a platform trainer and currently spends much of her time writing, speaking at conferences and in-company symposia, and working with management to assist in implementing project management within their enterprises. She has developed courseware and computer-based training products that address the tools, techniques, processes, and human dimensions of project management. She is also the editor of the "Executive's Notebook" column in the PM Network magazine published by the Project Management Institute and has published five books, including Succeeding in Project-Driven Organizations, to be published by Wiley in 2001, and Project Management: How to Plan and Manage Successful Projects.