Understanding Project Practices and Processes
eBook - ePub

Understanding Project Practices and Processes

  1. 232 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Understanding Project Practices and Processes

About this book

Understanding Project Practices and Processes distills the author's experiences in developing PMOs and as an IT Project Office to guide other project managers who may be facing challenges in delivering project goals and managing teams and stakeholders. With insights into the behavior of project teams, project managers, stakeholders, and project organizations, the book brings to life such processes and practices of project management as risk management, innovation, and design thinking.

In presenting principles dedicated to achieving successfully good, sound, business, and technological maturity, the book explains:

  • Using lessons learned to improve processes.
  • When to implement process improvement to better attain goals
  • Process capability maturity as a continuous process of improving and maturing a process to achieve consistent and repeatable results.
  • The distinction between processes and projects
  • How projects turn strategy into action
  • The key roles of communications and technology.

Research and real-world scenarios explain the practice of project management. With in-depth coverage of project management offices, knowledge management, change management, and project best practices, this book is an indispensable guide for new, as well as veteran, project managers.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Endorsement
  3. Half-Title Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Dedication
  7. Table of Contents
  8. Preface
  9. About the Author
  10. Acknowledgments
  11. 1 Introduction
  12. 2 PMO Formation, Structure, and Methodology
  13. 3 Project Leadership
  14. 4 PMO and Project Performance
  15. 5 Project Lessons Learned
  16. 6 Project Communications
  17. 7 Project Risk Management
  18. 8 Project Business Requirements
  19. 9 Resilience in Project Organizations
  20. 10 Knowledge Management
  21. 11 Project Best Practices and Benchmarking
  22. 12 Project Change Management
  23. Index