Modern Project Management : Successfully Integrating Project Management Knowledge Areas and Processes

✍ Scribed by Norman R. Howes

• Publisher: AMACOM
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 306
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

For project managers in charge of complicated, 10-person-plus projects, one of the best ways to take control and produce predictable, repeatable results is to focus on both complex theory and practical techniques.

Modern Project Management helps them do that, filling in the knowledge gaps and answering the questions of this often misunderstood process. By going through project management step-by-step, the book presents an integrated approach that balances theory, methods, psychology, and practice, and helps even novice project managers achieve superior results. Readers will learn how to:

* Plan the project to maximize productivity * Motivate others to execute the plan * Analyze the actual results * Rework and tune the plan as the project is executed.

Also included with this book is a project management toolset called Modern Manager. Easily installed on a personal computer, this software is far more than just a scheduler. It features tools designed to help project managers plan, estimate, monitor, and control projects.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 2
Contents......Page 4
List of Illustrations......Page 10
Preface......Page 18
1 Introduction......Page 25
2 Project Planning......Page 37
3 Project Monitoring......Page 93
4 Project Performance Evaluation......Page 130
5 Productivity Measurement......Page 149
6 Alternate Views......Page 160
7 Interfacing Scheduling Systems......Page 195
8 Government Projects......Page 242
9 Risk Management......Page 262
10 Rescuing a Failing Project......Page 274
References......Page 283
Index......Page 285