... project management
training and consulting firm based in Seattle, Washington. His company trains
thousands of professionals every year in the proven principles of project man-
agement including ... discipline is becoming a necessary skill in most organizations.
The root cause of the growing use of projectmanagement is the increasing rate
of change in our economy and our places of work.
PROJECT ... of Intel, titled his 1996 book, Only the Paranoid Survive
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Preface
In the 1990s, projectmanagement moved from a little-used industrial engineer-
ing discipline to the engine of managing...
... Understanding Project
Management 6
Downloadable Forms for ProjectManagement 6
Project Management: Art Informed by Science 7
Project Management Magnifies Other Strengths 9
End Point 10
CHAPTER 2—THE PROJECT ... Problem Solving 269
Job Satisfaction 270
End Point 270
CHAPTER 11 COMMUNICATION
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Introduction 272
Project Communication 272
Communicating within the Project Team 273
Communicating with Management ... Genuine !
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CONTENTS
PREFACE
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PART 1
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 1 PROJECTMANAGEMENTIN
A CHANGING WORLD
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Introduction 2
Project Management Is the New Critical Career Skill 3
The Increasing...
... Table 1.2.)
Planning
The next projectmanagement phase is called planning. (See Table 1.3.)
During planning, the project team develops a plan for how and when the
The Four Phases of a Project
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TABLE ... Mar-
tinTate, a projectmanagement training and consulting company
with headquarters in Cincinnati, Ohio. They are also the authors
of the ProjectManagement Memory Jogger™, a best-selling pocket ... planning, setting the stage for how planning will be
done. Too many times, teams rush off and begin planning, only to find
out that they have invested days or even weeks planning the wrong
thing....
... of practicing projectmanagement at a global level. Best
practices inproject management, if followed, increase the chances of success in
achieving goals when dealing with projects.
In this ... techniques to
project activities. Projectmanagement is accomplished through the application and
integration of the projectmanagement processes of initiating, planning, executing,
monitoring and ... resource is spent reinventing the wheel (Ford, 2008, pp. 31).
Best practices inprojectmanagement bring the benefit of saving time and money
in dealing with projects, goals that all project based...
... Groups into nine Knowledge Areas. These areas are: Project
Integration Management, Project Scope Management, Project Time Management, Project Cost
Management, Project Quality Management, Project ... Management, Project
Communications Management, Project Risk Management, and Project Procurement
Management (Project Management Institute, 2004, pp. 9–10). In this case study, the Project
Management ...
approach, preliminary engineering, and preliminary design. It covers project organizing,
planning, scheduling, estimating, and budgeting. It addresses development of plans for various
project parameters,...
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For those who pursue professional career in
project finance : accounting, project
management in general, financial risk, ... Case Study
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International project invested by foreign
investor in Vietnam : The water supply
project near HCM City.
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provided)
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... through the project management
process (creating and executing the project plan) .
✔ Obtain approvals for the project plan.
✔ Issue status reports on the progress of the project versus the
plan.
✔ ... working in a business process.
Business processes are managed using process management. Projects
are managed using project management.
WHAT IS PROJECT MANAGEMENT?
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the customer and the organization. These execution go/no-go decision
points are called...
... “Making projectmanagement indispensable for business results”, “PMBOK”, “CAPM”, “Certified Associate
in ProjectManagement (CAPM)”, “PMP”, ProjectManagement Professional (PMP)”, ProjectManagement ... assistance
6. Attempting to remove scrap paper from the testing room, or tearing the scrap paper.
7. Eating or drinking in the testing room
8. Leaving the testing room or test center vicinity without ...
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Mastering the
Leadership Role in
Project Management
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Mastering the Leadership roLe inprojectManageMent
in particular the German firm designing the equipment, was so
willing to ... However, not everyone involved in the project,
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practices. The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook explains it vividly: “Buckmin-
ster Fuller ...
on information technology projects since 1994, shows that overrun-
ning the budget is common and that delivering projects late is nor-
mal. Delivering less functionality than was originally planned...
... institutions. In their study White & Fortune (2002) examined the current project
management practice in public sector in UK by collecting data from 236 project managers in some public
institutions. ... governs a project. It also helps in developing
plans for carrying out the project. (Pinto 2007) identified four distinct project life cycle phases which are:
Conceptualization, Planning, Execution, ... the phases of the project life cycle”. It is also regarded as a system or process of
planning, designing, scheduling, managing and controlling interconnected project activities in order to achieve...
...
transfer. The project required the following:
ãA complete renovation of a formulation and filling suite,
including a new separate air-handling system
Case Studies in Pharmaceutical
Project Management
A ... project on time, to specifications, and with
the necessary communication to prevent or mitigate project
delays. To illustrate the importance of projectmanagementin
outsourcing, several industry ... Effective projectmanagement is the cornerstone of
being a complete provider of services ranging from devel-
opment of new products to technical transfer of existing
products. Building the proper project...
...
All projects have a beginning and an ending, and project
management has corresponding initiating and closing
processes. The middle, or work of the project, is
managed by planning, executing, ...
Table 1. Projectmanagement institute projectmanagement area.
Project management area
Description
Integration management
Unifying the activities and resources of the project to complete. ... and appropriate project communication.
Human resource
management
Organizing and managing the project team.
Adapted from ProjectManagement Institute, A Guide to the ProjectManagement Body...
... estimates.
Planning Phase:
Scheduling Single Project. Exhibit 4 compares
the CP and CC approaches to developing the initial baseline
schedule for a single project.
Goals.
In the planning phase, ... been defined. In the CP baseline
schedule, the project due date can only be protected against
uncertainties by including safety margins in individual activity
duration estimates. In CP schedules ...
chain or on feeding paths since an important focus is to avoid a
change of the critical chain.
Uncertainty. Uncertainties occurring during project execution
are treated in CP by exploiting...