Description
Book SynopsisTHE PROJECT MANAGEMENT CLASSIC-REVISED AND EXPANDED
Now Includes Downloadable Forms and Worksheets
Projects are becoming the heart of business. This comprehensive revision of the bestselling guide to project management explains the processes, practices, and management techniques you need to implement a successful project culture within your team and enterprise. Visualizing Project Management simplifies the challenge of managing complex projects with powerful, visual models that have been adopted by more than 100 leading government and private organizations.
In this new Third Edition, the authors-leading thinkers and practitioners in the field-keep you on the cutting edge with a sophisticated approach that integrates project management, systems engineering, and process improvement. This advanced content can help take your career and your organization well beyond the fundamentals.
New, downloadable forms, templates, and worksheets make it easy to implement powerf
Table of Contents
Introduction Using Visual Models to Master Complex Systems xxi
Part One Using Models and Frameworks to Master Complex Systems
1 Why Are Project Requirements a Critical Issue? 3
Maintaining consistency of the business case, the project scope, and customer needs
2 Visualizing the Project Environment 8
Using systems thinking to understand and manage the bigger picture
3 Modeling the Five Essentials 19
Visualizing the critical relationships in managing projects
Part Two The Essentials of Project Management
4 Organizational Commitment 37
Ensuring success with management support, quality environment, and needed resources
5 Project Communication 48
Communicating clearly, completely, and concisely
6 Teamwork 69
Maximizing team energy and output
7 The Project Cycle 84
Understanding the steps and gates in every project life cycle
8 The Ten Management Elements 129
Comprehending the relationships among the techniques to be applied throughout the cycle
Part Three The Ten Management Elements in Detail
9 Project Requirements 137
Ensuring satisfied users by determining and delivering what’s wanted
10 Organization Options 167
Selecting and adapting the structure for the project
11 The Project Team 181
Getting the right people
12 Project Planning 196
Determining the best way to get there
13 Opportunities and Their Risks 223
Seeking and seizing opportunities and managing their risks
14 Project Control 254
Making sure the right things happen and the wrong things don’t
15 Project Visibility 278
Providing project transparency for everyone involved
16 Project Status 292
Discovering the problems
17 Corrective Action 312
Fixing the problems
18 Project Leadership 319
Motivating and inspiring the team
Part Four Implementing the Five Essentials
19 Principles and Tactics for Mastering Complexity 341
Implementing the technical development process
20 Integration, Verification, and Validation 361
Delivering the right thing, done right
21 Improving Project Performance 381
Moving beyond success
Appendixes
A Web Site for Forms and Templates 401
B The Professional and Standards Environment 403
C The Role of Unified Modeling Language™ in Systems Engineering 409
D A Summary of the Eight Phase Estimating Process 415
E Overview of the SEI-CMMI 421
Glossary One Hundred Commonly Misunderstood Terms 427
Notes 435
Index 441
