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About this book
Project planning is generally accepted as an important contributor to project success. However, is there research that affirms the positive impact of project planning and gives guidance on how much effort should be spent on planning? To answer these questions, this book looks at current literature and new research of this under-studied area of proj
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Spectacular Project Failures
- Chapter 2: Academic History of Planning
- Chapter 3: Reasons Not to Plan
- Chapter 4: Project Success and Planning: What Are They?
- Chapter 5: Efficiency versus Success
- Chapter 6: Planning Variation by Industry
- Chapter 7: Geography and Industry and Success
- Chapter 8: Planning in the Construction Industry
- Chapter 9: Planning in Information Technology
- Chapter 10: Practical Planning Impacts on Success: A Software Development Case Study
- Chapter 11: Planning and Success in General Project Management
- Chapter 12: Consensus on Planning and Success
- Chapter 13: Planning Deliverable Quality and Success
- Chapter 14: How Much to Plan
- Chapter 15: Planning Phase Effort and Success
- Chapter 16: What Is the Optimum Planning Phase Time?
- Chapter 17: Planning Budgets and Success
- Chapter 18: Planning and Agile/Iterative Methods
- Chapter 19: Agile Methods and Success
- Chapter 20: Planningās Importance to Manager Success
- Chapter 21: New Research: Planning and Managerās Success
- Chapter 22: Conclusions
- Abbreviations
- Checklists
- Appendix A: The Original Research
- Appendix B: Details of the Statistical Analysis
- Appendix C: Details of the Survey
- Appendix D: Final Model Sensitivity Analysis
- References
- Back Cover