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project.management.survival
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详细说明： Part I. Understanding Projects 1. What Are Projects and Why Do They Fail? 5 What is a project? 5; What is project management? 6; Why is it vital to manage projects well? 8; Project killers 9 2. Dead Project Walking – Why some projects must be killed 13 Why dead projects live on 14 Part II. Where are We? 3. Diagnosing an Existing Project 19 Why doing a diagnostic makes sense 19; Getting to the truth 20; Digging into the plan 24; Diagnosing a multicompany programme 28 Part III. Getting the Right Initial Plan 4. Leading Projects 33 The wrong kind of project managers 33; Being the right kind of project manager 34; Give the team responsibility 35; Managing in a matrix 36; Being a team player 37; Overcoming ‘It can’t be done’ 38; Focusing your attention in the right places 41 5. Project Scope and Initiation 44 Introduction 44; Project initiation 45; The Project Charter 48; Creating the Project Charter 48; Get it right early on – it’s cheaper 50; Summary and actions 56 6. Agreeing Objectives 57 Why objectives are important 57; Developing welldefined objectives 59; Good and bad objectives – some examples 61; Summary and actions 65 7. Milestones 66 The problem with bad milestones 67; How to write a good milestone 68; Writing milestones 70; Differences between milestones and gates 70; Summary and actions 74 8. Refining Milestones 76 Do you have the right milestones? 76; How result paths help 76; Setting up result paths 77; Assessing result paths 79; Developing the detail for each milestone 82; Beyond milestones 82; Summary and actions 83 9. Activities/Work Breakdown Structure 85 What is a work breakdown structure? 86; The work breakdown structure underpins much of the planning 89; The rolling wave approach 90; The impact of rolling wave on estimation and contingency 91; Summary and actions 93 10. Assigning Resources 96 Identifying the resources you need 96; Summary and actions 98 11. Time Estimation 100 Why estimation goes wrong 100; Why managing using ‘percentage complete’ doesn’t work 102; A better approach for estimation – work content 106; Producing good estimates 108; Record any assumptions used in estimation 111; Summary and actions 112 12. Resource Availability 114 Estimating task durations from the work content 114; Summary and actions 122 13. Dependencies 124 Different types of dependencies 125; Lag 126; Predecessors and successors 128; Tasks and subtasks 129; Critical path 131; Slack/float 133; Summary and actions 134 14. Risk and Mitigation 136 The problems with simple risk/contingency planning 137; Identifying and managing risks 137; Risk identification 138; Risk assessment 139; Risk reduction 143; Risk management 145; Summary and actions 146 Part IV. Getting the Plan Right 15. Optimizing the Plan 151 Create more realistic resource usage 152; Improve resource usage to shorten the duration of key tasks 153; Reducing task durations on the critical path 157; Working in parallel 157; Optimization and risk 158; Project crashing 160; Developing the project budget 163; Where you end up is where you start 163 Part V. Staying on Track 16. Roles, Responsibilities and Communication 167 Project manager 167; Work package or module managers 169; Project team members 169; Project sponsor 170; Project office 171; Steering group 171; Communication between the roles 172; Project manager’s weekly checklist 175 17. Updating the Plan 178 The update information you need from team members 178; Integrating the updates 179; Updating the plan in practice 181; How often? 182 18. Monitoring Progress 183 Introduction 183; How to monitor progress within a project 184; Earned Value Analysis (EVA) 186; Using EVA to monitor progress 190; Limitations of EVA 193 19. Handling Issues 194 Introduction 194; What is an issue? 195; Prioritizing issues 195; Managing issues 195 20. Controlling Change 197 21. Reporting 201 Reporting down 201; Reporting up 202 22. Project Closure 203 Appendix 1: The Changing Nature of Projects 205 Appendix 2: Project Management Software 211 Appendix 3: Project Management Approaches and Methodologies 219 Appendix 4: Problem-solving Techniques 229 Appendix 5: References and Resources 233 Index 235 ...展开收缩
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