
- 232 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
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
- Cover
- Endorsement
- Half-Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- About the Author
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 PMO Formation, Structure, and Methodology
- 3 Project Leadership
- 4 PMO and Project Performance
- 5 Project Lessons Learned
- 6 Project Communications
- 7 Project Risk Management
- 8 Project Business Requirements
- 9 Resilience in Project Organizations
- 10 Knowledge Management
- 11 Project Best Practices and Benchmarking
- 12 Project Change Management
- Index