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Book SynopsisPROJECT BENEFIT REALISATION AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT Dispels the confusion between project management success and project success, showing how project sponsors can govern their projects to succeed in delivering the strategic benefits originally envisaged
Project management success does not automatically lead to project success. Many large projects fail to live up to expectations, with between half and two-thirds of large projects either failing to deliver or delivering few strategic benefits. Traditional project management resources focus on delivering a project on time and on budget, yet they fail to supply top managers, many of whom find themselves in the role of accidental project sponsors, with guidance on how to govern their projects to succeed.
Project Benefit Realisation and Project Management: The 6Q Governance Approach bridges the strategy to performance gap by providing boards, senior managers and project sponsors with the six critical questions n
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface 5
I. Introduction 6
The Board, Governance and Projects 6
Key Concepts 9
II. How to Govern Projects: 6 Questions
Q1. What is the desired outcome?
War Story – Lying to the Board
How to know whether Q1 has been addressed adequately
Q2. How much change?
Q3. Sponsor
Case Study – SkyHigh
Q4. Success Measures
Case Study – TechMedia
Commentary
Q5. The right project culture
Case Study – The Agency
Q6. Monitoring
Case Study – TechMedia (contd. from p26)
III. Tools and Techniques
Q1 Strategy – Diagnostic Toolkit
Case: A ‘routine’ project failure at TechServ
Q2 Change – Tools and techniques
Stakeholder Analysis
Business Process Mapping
Results Chain or Logic Model
Influencer Analysis
Case Study – The Agency
Q4 Measurement – Tools and techniques
Q6 Monitoring – tools and techniques
IV. Further insight
When do you ask each 6Q Governance™ question?
The best guidance available
V. The Future of Project Management and Governance
Where do we go from here?
The history and the future of project management
Conclusion
Appendix 1 – TechMedia
Appendix 2 –SKYHIGH INVESTMENTS
Appendix 3 –THE AGENCY
Bibliography
About the Authors
Index
