Programme Management Demystified: Managing multiple projects successfully

✍ Scribed by Geoff Reiss

Publisher: Spon Press
Year: 1996
Tongue: English
Leaves: 272
Edition: 1st ed
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

This book provides the perfect companion to Geoff Reiss's Project Management Demystified and presents the techniques of multi-project management in a lively, approachable manner. It covers budgets, cost control, planning problems and matrix management formulae. Drawing on a wide range of case histories and lively examples, it tackles organisational issues and the multi-project conflicts that often arise.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Foreword......Page 7
Foreplay......Page 9
Acknowledgements......Page 10
Introduction......Page 12
Definitions of programme management......Page 37
Types of projects......Page 43
What is the net benefit of programme management and who gets it?......Page 50
Managing the programme......Page 60
Structured diagrams: WBS, PBS and OBS......Page 66
Multi-project planning problems......Page 96
Budgets, cost control and things financial......Page 129
Project-management tools in the programme-management environment......Page 155
The Storwyncyxkycs: an everyday tale of programme-management folk......Page 178
Matrix-management formulae......Page 195
Matrix-inspired issues......Page 202
Roles within the matrix organization......Page 225
Extra baggage......Page 231
Quality and BS EN ISO 9000......Page 245
Good luck with your projects......Page 262
Automated assists......Page 263
Contacts for more information......Page 265
Further reading......Page 266
Index......Page 269

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