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The Project Management A-Z

A Compendium of Project Management Techniques and How to Use Them

Publication Date February 2004
Publisher Ashgate Publishing
Product Type CD-ROM
Pages
ISBN Number 9780566085826
Product Code ASH00101
The Project Management A-Z
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Summary

What does project authorization involve and how should you seek it? What is earned value and how are the calculations made? How do you select the appropriate method for handing over a project and what are the pitfalls associated with the options you can choose from?

The Project Management A-Z provides you with the answer to these questions and more in an A-Z coverage of 80 project management techniques. Each one includes an explanation of the technique, how, when and why you would use it. There are sample forms, checklists of key questions to ask yourself and others, cross-references to the other techniques within the manual everything to ensure that you:

  • Understand the technique and the context in which it is used;
  • Identify whether or not it will work for you;
  • Are able to apply it appropriately and effectively.

If you are just starting a project or deeply engrossed in one, the opportunity to discuss alternative approaches, or explore the problems and opportunities that the project may throw up is particularly valuable. Sometimes you may have access to a project mentor or coach who can advise you. The Project Management A-Z helps fill that role, challenging your perception and helping build your confidence in the quality of the processes you are using and the decisions you are making.

Successful projects are built on the skills of the project manager, the quality of the basic foundations that are laid, and sensitive but assertive management of processes and resources. The Project Management A-Z is a definitive reference to the main techniques for all of these key elements.

Content

  • Background and acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Glossary of common project management terms
  • Approval
  • Authorization
  • Back-scheduling
  • Baselines and baselining
  • Benefits
  • Budget control
  • Budgets for project work
  • Business case
  • Business case review
  • Champion
  • Change control
  • Closing a project
  • Communications plan
  • Constraints
  • Contract management
  • Controlling against the schedule
  • Critical success factors
  • Decisions in projects
  • Earned value analysis
  • Estimating
  • Exceptions (and management by)
  • Feasibility study
  • Filing and document management in projects
  • Handover options
  • Impact analysis
  • Investment appraisal for projects
  • Issue management
  • Lessons learned
  • Matrix management
  • Milestones and milestone plans
  • Network analysis and the critical path
  • Objective(s)
  • Planning checklist
  • Post-project review
  • Procurement
  • Programme or project?
  • Project
  • Project and stage plans
  • Project health checks
  • Project life cycle
  • Project office
  • Project opportunities
  • Project strategy
  • Quality in project work
  • Quality reviews and product descriptions
  • Reports in projects and programmes
  • Request for change
  • Responsibility matrix
  • Risk management
  • Scheduling
  • Scope
  • Sensitivity analysis
  • Small project
  • Sponsor
  • Stage or phase
  • Stages - start and end procedures
  • Stakeholders - identification and communication
  • Starting a project
  • Statement of work
  • Steering group
  • Task checklist
  • Terms of reference
  • Tolerance
  • Tranche (of a programme)
  • Tuning or scaling a project
  • Two-level planning
  • Web projects
  • Work breakdown structure
  • Work distribution model
  • Work package
  • Zero tolerance
  • Appendix: PRINCE introduction
  • PRINCE and planning software tools
  • PRINCE 'off specification'
  • PRINCE product breakdown structure
  • PRINCE product checklist
  • PRINCE product description
  • PRINCE product flow diagram
  • PRINCE products
  • PRINCE project board
  • PRINCE project initiation
  • PRINCE tolerance
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • (Hyperlinks to complimentary chapters at the end of each section).