Commercial Project Management
eBook - ePub

Commercial Project Management

A Guide for Selling and Delivering Professional Services

  1. 250 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Commercial Project Management

A Guide for Selling and Delivering Professional Services

About this book

Selling and delivering a project to a satisfied client, and making a profit, is a complex task. Project manager and author Robin Hornby believes this has been neglected by current standards and is poorly understood by professionals in the field. Commercial Project Management aims to rectify this deficiency. As a unique 'how-to' guide for project and business managers, it offers practical guidance, and a wealth of explanatory illustrations, useful techniques, proven checklists, real life examples, and case stories. It will give project managers a needed confidence boost and a head start in their demanding role as they go 'on contract'.

At the heart of Robin's approach is a vendor sales and delivery lifecycle that provides a framework for business control of projects. Unique elements include the integration of buyer and vendor project lifecycles, the recasting of project management as a cyclic set of functions to lead the work of the project, and the elevation of risk assessment from a project toolkit to a fundamental control process. Beyond project management, the book proposes a comprehensive template for the firm whose business is delivering projects.

This is a how-to book for project and business managers working in a commercial environment looking for practical guidance on conducting their projects and organizing their firm.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2017
eBook ISBN
9781315299259

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Table of Contents
  6. List of figures
  7. List of tables
  8. Preface
  9. Acknowledgments
  10. 1 A summary of the guide
  11. 2 Introduction to the business of projects
  12. 3 Buyer and vendor integration
  13. 4 Evolution of a vendor lifecycle
  14. 5 Developing organizational responsibilities
  15. 6 Risk as a guiding principle for management
  16. 7 Overcoming estimating anxieties
  17. 8 Solving the quality conundrum
  18. 9 Managing the resource pool
  19. 10 Finance matters
  20. 11 Building a successful services firm
  21. 12 Toward collaborative procurement of services
  22. References
  23. Glossary
  24. Index