Project management: a practical guide to planning and managing projects

✍ Scribed by Hartley, Stephen

• Publisher: Allen & Unwin
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Edition: Fourth edition
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

With project management acknowledged as a cross-industry management framework, this revised fourth edition aligns with PMBOK and reviews PRINCE2, Agile and Lean methodologies. Including best-practice templates, this book guides both the novice and practitioner in planning and managing their diverse projects.

✦ Table of Contents

List of tables and figures Acronyms and abbreviations About the author Preface Using this textbook Project management life-cycle on a page 1. Project management: An adaptable body of knowledge 2. Organisational capability: Emerging strategy, justification and capability 3. Stakeholder management: Strategies for continuous engagement 4. Scope management: Delivering on changing expectations 5. Time management: Developing and controlling the schedule 6. Cost management: Ending the reliance on the budget variance 7. Quality management: Achieving technical excellence and customer satisfaction 8. Human resource management: Developing and maintaining individual and team performance 9. Communications management: Matching intent with outcome 10. Risk management: Proactively managing uncertainty, complexity and change 11. Procurement management: Embedding value into the project 12. Integration management: Unifying a coordinated approach Appendix 1: Issue matrix Appendix 2: Activity-based learning Appendix 3: Project management templates GlossaryBibliographyIndex

✦ Subjects

Competency-based education;Project management;