Delivering Effective Projects

Delivering Effective Projects
Author: George Glover
Publisher: Enlighten Publications
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2023-11-25
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

Delivering Effective Projects Project management is a complex and demanding field that requires careful attention to a variety of different areas. The success of a project often depends on how well project managers can navigate the various challenges they face in areas such as leadership and team management, governance and oversight, and planning and control. You will learn how to deliver: Effective Leadership and Management Leading with Vision: Empowering Teams and Achieving Project Success Establishing and Developing Effective Teams to Achieve Project Success Maintaining a Positive and Engaged Team: The Role of Conflict Management Mastering the Logical Approach to Problem-Solving: Achieving Project Objectives with Valid Information, Logical Steps, and Informed Decisions. Effective Decision-Making in Project Management Effective Communication with Stakeholders for Successful Project Delivery Mastering Negotiation Skills for Project Success Effective Governance and Oversight Establishing and Maintaining Effective Governance Structures for Project Alignment with Organisational Practice Managing Deviations from a Project Plan: Utilizing Reliable Information to Inform Reviews Navigating Change: Best Practices for Managing Change Control Processes and Protocols Strategies for Effective Stakeholder Management in Project Management Maximizing Project Success: Strategies for Delivering Intended Benefits Effective Planning and Control Mastering Project Cost Management Mitigating Risks and Maximizing Opportunities Managing Project Issues: Strategies for Effective Response and Review Developing and Implementing an Integrated Plan for Effective Project Management Ace Your Project Management Exam: Tips and Strategies for Effective Studying Effective project management is an essential skill for success in both professional work and academic pursuits. However, the concepts and theories taught in project management courses can sometimes seem abstract and disconnected from the real world. This is where "Delivering Effective Projects" comes in. Written by George Glover, a seasoned consultant project manager with over 25 years of experience, this book provides a comprehensive guide to understanding and utilizing project management principles in real-world contexts. The book is divided into three parts, each with a specific focus on leadership and management, governance and oversight, and planning and control. Within each part, readers will find a wealth of practical advice and insights, as well as tips and strategies for success. Whether you are a working professional seeking to improve your project management skills, or a student looking to better understand the concepts and theories of project management, this book has something to offer. And for those preparing for project management exams, the final chapter provides valuable hints and tips to help you succeed. Overall, "Delivering Effective Projects" is an invaluable resource for anyone looking to improve their project management skills and achieve success in their professional or academic pursuits. With its focus on real-world context and practical advice, this book is sure to become an essential reference for project managers at all levels of experience and expertise.

Project Management: Step by Step

Project Management: Step by Step
Author: Richard Newton
Publisher: Pearson UK
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2016-08-12
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1292142219

You’ve been given a project to run. You know you need to get it right, but you don’t know what you need to do and in what order to make sure it all runs smoothly and you come out of it looking great. You need Project Management Step by Step. Almost every manager and businessperson finds at some time they need to complete a task that has sufficient complexity and importance that an ad-hoc approach to getting it done is just not enough. Managers in this common situation need the structure and rigour of a project management approach, yet very few managers are formally trained in project management or have the inclination, time or finances to become trained. They need an approach they can feel confident is sufficiently robust to ensure their success, but also simple enough to be immediately applicable. Project Management Step by Step provides the solution to this problem; a practical and immediate way to become a competent project manager. The full text downloaded to your computer With eBooks you can: search for key concepts, words and phrases make highlights and notes as you study share your notes with friends eBooks are downloaded to your computer and accessible either offline through the Bookshelf (available as a free download), available online and also via the iPad and Android apps. Upon purchase, you'll gain instant access to this eBook. Time limit The eBooks products do not have an expiry date. You will continue to access your digital ebook products whilst you have your Bookshelf installed.

Web Project Management

Web Project Management
Author: Ashley Friedlein
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2001
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781558606784

This text teaches prject managers everything they need to build a commercial web site from concept to launch. It teaches web managers how to organize and put tpgether a team, develop goals, manage budgets and schedules and overcome pitfalls.

Managing Project Delivery: Maintaining Control and Achieving Success

Managing Project Delivery: Maintaining Control and Achieving Success
Author: Trish Melton
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2008-12-15
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0080559069

A practical handbook for career project managers and those involved intermittently with projects throughout their career. Brief and visually led, Managing Project Delivery gets to the point, giving you the knowledge and confidence to manage project benefits and increase the certainty of success. Focused on the needs of engineering and technical Project Managers, but generic enough to support projects in other areas such as business change, IT and product development. Supported by downloadable on-line project benefits management tool templates that enable the techniques developed in the book to be applied in practice. Comprehensive real world case studies demonstrate the use of tools.Successful projects are the basis for the business many successful organisations, but many professionals lack the basic skills required to manage projects successfully. This book shows how to maximise the outcomes of projects and to ensure that the benefits arising from projects -- large or small -- are fully realized by the business. This key outcome can be easily overlooked or sidelined by the need to keep projects on track. Managing Project Delivery provides simple yet powerful tools to ensure that projects deliver on their goals in a controlled and accountable manner. It is the first of four project management titles that separately build skills and together provide a powerful project management resource. A practical handbook for career project managers and those involved intermittently with projects throughout their career Brief and visually led, Managing Project Delivery gets to the point, giving you the knowledge and confidence to deliver projects and increase the certainty of success Focused on the needs of both engineering and technical Project Managers, but generic enough to support projects in other areas such as business change, IT and product development Supported by downloadable on-line project delivery tool templates that enable the techniques developed in the book to be applied in practice Comprehensive real world case studies demonstrate the use of tools Project delivery is the third stage of the project lifecycle. This book shows how to maintain control and forecast the project outcome. Provides expert advice, tried-and-tested techniques and a delivery toolkit to address:• Business alignment• Value delivery• Control and forecasting

Delivering Successful Projects with TSP(SM) and Six Sigma

Delivering Successful Projects with TSP(SM) and Six Sigma
Author: Mukesh Jain
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2008-11-20
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1420061445

Delivering successful projects means the ability to produce high quality software within budget and on time-consistently, but when one mentions quality to software engineers or project managers, they talk about how impossible it is to eliminate defects from software. This assumption is passed on and on until it becomes accepted wisdom, with the power of a self-fulfilling prophecy. And when a project fails to arrive on time or up to standards, team members will turn on each other. The project got delayed because the engineers did a poor job in development or too much was promised upfront for this short of a timeline. In Delivering Successful Projects with TSPSM and Six Sigma: A Practical Guide to Implementing Team Software ProcessSM, you will learn how to effectively manage the development of a software project and deliver it in line with customer expectations. This refreshing volume - Offers real-world case studies about the author's experience at Microsoft successfully implementing TSP to achieve higher quality software Empowers software developers to take responsibility for project management Explains how Six Sigma and TSP combined can dramatically reduce software defects By applying these principles put forth by one of the most respected names in software development, your software team will learn how to function as a team and turn out products where zero defects and on-time delivery are the norm.

#noprojects: A Culture of Continuous Value

#noprojects: A Culture of Continuous Value
Author: Evan Leybourn
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2018-07-18
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1387941933

Today success comes from building products people love, creating loyal customers and serving the broader stakeholder community. In this thoughtful exploration on the future of work, the authors explore the past, present and future of the "project". And why, in today's fast changing & hyper-competitive world, running a temporary endeavour is the wrong approach to building sustainable products and how #noprojects is fundamentally changing the way companies work. The metrics by which we have historically defined success are no longer applicable and we need to re-examine the way value is delivered in the new economy. This book starts from the premise that our goal is to create value, for the customer, for the organisation and for society as a whole and shows how to empower and optimise our teams to achieve this. The authors draw on modern management approaches to provide proven techniques and tools for producing, and sustaining, creative products that go beyond "meeting requirements".

The Project Manager

The Project Manager
Author: Richard Newton
Publisher: Pearson UK
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2012-09-07
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0273747053

Processes don't drive projects; people do. Successful project management is ultimately about effective communication, and more broadly, effective people management. Most books, however, deal largely with process - the mechanical, methodological side, and play down the human side. The Project Manageris a fresh approach to project management: it moves beyond the formal methodologies and techniques to shed light on the core skills that will make you a great project manager. It puts the project manager centre stage and provides you with an invaluable set of experience-based lessons, tips, and advice to help you consistently deliver the results you want. Whether you are a project manager yourself, or someone who works with or recruits project managers, this book will be essential reading. DISCOVER WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW AND DO TO BE A GREAT PROJECT MANAGER

The Project Book

The Project Book
Author: Colin D. Ellis
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2019-07-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0730371417

** Winner AUSTRALIAN BUSINESS BOOK AWARDS - BEST GENERAL BUSINESS BOOK 2020 ** Finalist AUSTRALIAN BUSINESS BOOK AWARDS - BEST BOOK 2020 Deliver great projects every time Projects are the lifeblood of organisations, but many projects fall short of expectations because of poor project management and/or poor project sponsorship. In The Project Book, author and 20-year project management and sponsorship veteran Colin D Ellis teaches you the skills and behaviours required to make your projects succeed, every time. The best projects, whether they are delivered in an agile or waterfall way, are a result of the people that lead them and the environment they create. This fail-safe and comprehensive handbook shows you how to develop the mindset and communication skills to create projects that leave a legacy for you, your team and your organisation. Project leaders and senior managers in all business and technical disciplines will benefit from the insightful guidance this book offers and better project outcomes will result. Split into two parts, individually addressing Project Leaders and Project Sponsors, this book guides large project facilitators to understand the importance of people over processes. become a project leader that people trust build a team culture of collaboration, agility and creativity upskill executives so that they’re catalysts for transformation develop the organisational discipline needed for successful projects create a mature environment for your projects to thrive Engaging, informative and humorous, The Project Book will help project managers, project sponsors, scrum masters and product owners across all organisations to deliver successful projects in a way that customers will talk about for years.

Real Project Planning: Developing a Project Delivery Strategy

Real Project Planning: Developing a Project Delivery Strategy
Author: Trish Melton
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
Total Pages: 363
Release: 2011-04-08
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0080555993

Successful projects are the basis for a successful company, but many professionals lack the basic skills required to accomplish this. The IChemE Project Management Subject Group has recognized the need to provide resources to deliver these skills, and has developed a series of books to share the latest best practice – engineering essentials. This second title, though primarily written from the perspective of engineering projects within the process industries, is generic enough to support project managers in many other disciplines. It provides for those starting out in project management, is ideal for students as a university textbook, and is also an indispensable reference for established project managers. - Get up and running on your project quickly and effectively - Focuses one step at a time on the needs of engineering, industrial and process projects for career project managers and those involved with projects intermittently

Project Delivery in Business-as-Usual Organizations

Project Delivery in Business-as-Usual Organizations
Author: Mr Tim Carroll
Publisher: Gower Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages: 349
Release: 2012-09-28
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 140945794X

Business organizations are highly successful at delivering 'business as usual'; the day-to-day tasks of managing customer transactions, marketing and production activities, and motivating employees. But there is a growing requirement for such organizations also to deliver business change projects successfully. 'Business as usual organizations' represent a particularly challenging environment for achieving this because of the fundamentally different mindset and culture required to deliver projects in this context. Tim Carroll's book provides an authoritative guide to improving project delivery in such organizations by: • building a project management capability and culture that is appropriate to BAU organizations; • aligning projects more closely with the strategic agenda of the organization, through the use of programmes; • using portfolio management to improve this alignment and ensure the effectiveness of project investments; • demonstrating the business context for projects and their contribution to the organization's agenda of strategic change. The author argues convincingly that project management hasn't travelled well from its traditional roots in construction and engineering to business-as-usual organizations. New approaches are called for, in particular to embed project delivery capabilities more deeply within the organization rather than treat it as a specialist discipline. This is a 'must-read' book to help managers responsible for strategy and change in all business-as-usual organizations (such as banks, insurance, business and consumer service companies, hospitals, local and national government) to realize the value that project management can bring to the long-term development of their organization.