A Manager's Guide to Project Management: Learn How to Apply Best Practices

✍ Scribed by Bender, Michael

Publisher: FT Press
Year: 2009
Tongue: English
Leaves: 301
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

In this book, top enterprise project management expert Michael Bender explains project management from the perspective that matters most to executives: adding value.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgments......Page 8
About the Author......Page 9
Preface......Page 10
Chapter 1 The Goals of Project Management......Page 14
Chapter 2 Project Management Framework and Structure......Page 26
Chapter 3 Project Definition and Planning......Page 40
Chapter 4 Strategic Alignment......Page 66
Chapter 5 A Framework for Strategic Alignment......Page 80
Chapter 6 Organizational Alignment......Page 102
Chapter 7 Process Alignment......Page 122
Chapter 8 Project Cost Management......Page 144
Chapter 9 Project Oversight......Page 164
Chapter 10 Project Management Oversight......Page 180
Chapter 11 Projects as Capital Investments......Page 196
Chapter 12 Developing a Balanced Portfolio......Page 214
Chapter 13 Balanced Portfolio Techniques in Action......Page 230
Chapter 14 Globalization and Strategic Outsourcing......Page 242
Chapter 15 Optimizing Resources in a Multiproject Environment......Page 260
Endnotes......Page 278
B......Page 280
C......Page 281
E......Page 284
F......Page 285
I......Page 286
J-K-L-M......Page 287
N-O......Page 288
P......Page 290
R......Page 294
S......Page 296
T......Page 298
W-X-Y-Z......Page 299

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