Melton Managing Project Delivery: Maintaining Control and Achieving Success

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-08-055906-3
Verlag: Elsevier Science & Techn.
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 312 Seiten

A practical handbook for career project managers and those involved intermittently with projects throughout their career.
Brief and visually led, Managing Project Delivery gets to the point, giving you the knowledge and confidence to manage project benefits and increase the certainty of success.
Focused on the needs of engineering and technical Project Managers, but generic enough to support projects in other areas such as business change, IT and product development.
Supported by downloadable on-line project benefits management tool templates that enable the techniques developed in the book to be applied in practice.
Comprehensive real world case studies demonstrate the use of tools.
Successful projects are the basis for the business many successful organisations, but many professionals lack the basic skills required to manage projects successfully. This book shows how to maximise the outcomes of projects and to ensure that the benefits arising from projects -- large or small -- are fully realized by the business. This key outcome can be easily overlooked or sidelined by the need to keep projects on track.
Managing Project Delivery provides simple yet powerful tools to ensure that projects deliver on their goals in a controlled and accountable manner. It is the first of four project management titles that separately build skills and together provide a powerful project management resource.
* A practical handbook for career project managers and those involved intermittently with projects throughout their career.
* Brief and visually led, Managing Project Delivery gets to the point, giving you the knowledge and confidence to deliver projects and increase the certainty of success.
* Focused on the needs of both engineering and technical Project Managers, but generic enough to support projects in other areas such as business change, IT and product development.
* Supported by downloadable on-line project delivery tool templates that enable the techniques developed in the book to be applied in practice.
* Comprehensive real world case studies demonstrate the use of tools.
* Project delivery is the third stage of the project lifecycle. This book shows how to maintain control and forecast the project outcome. Provides expert advice, tried-and-tested techniques and a delivery toolkit to address:
• Business alignment
• Value delivery
• Control and forecasting

Director of MIME Solutions Ltd, a UK-based PM Consultancy. She has worked for organizations including AstraZeneca, GSK, and Eli Lilly, and has clients in the UK and US.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Melton, Trish

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Front cover;1
2;Managing project delivery: maintaining control and achieving success;4
3;Copyright page;5
4;About the authors;6
5;About the project management essentials series;8
6;Foreword;10
7;Acknowledgements;12
8;How to use this book;14
9;Contents;16
10;Chapter 1 Introduction;20
10.1;The project life cycle;20
10.2;Aims;21
10.3;What is project delivery?;22
10.4;Why we need controlled project delivery;24
10.5;The delivery hierarchy;29
10.6;The project health check;31
10.7;And remember…;33
11;Chapter 2 Project, programme and portfolio delivery;34
11.1;What's the difference?;34
11.2;Delivering projects, programmes and portfolios;36
11.3;Steering projects, programmes and portfolios;42
11.4;Managing projects, programmes and portfolios;43
11.5;And finally…;45
12;Chapter 3 Business plan delivery;46
12.1;What is a project business plan?;46
12.2;How to manage delivery of a project business plan;46
12.3;Sponsorship;51
12.3.1;Tool: Business Plan Review Checklist;55
12.3.2;Tool: Communications Tracker;61
12.4;Benefits management;66
12.4.1;Tool: Benefits Totalizer;68
12.4.2;Tool: Benefits Delivery Fault Tree;70
12.5;Business change management;74
12.5.1;Tool: Sustainability FMEA;80
12.5.2;Tool: Stakeholder Engagement Tracker;82
12.5.3;Tool: Business Change Mitigation Matrix;86
12.6;Business plan delivery case study – production capacity improvement;89
12.7;Troubleshooting business plan delivery;100
12.8;Handy hints;103
12.9;And finally…;103
13;Chapter 4 Set-up plan delivery;104
13.1;What is a project set-up plan?;104
13.2;How to manage delivery of a project set-up plan;104
13.3;Project organization;108
13.3.1;Tool: Tracking RACI;117
13.3.2;Tool: Team Issues Tool;118
13.3.3;Tool: Project Team Audit Tool;119
13.4;Project type;121
13.5;Funding strategy and finance management;126
13.6;Scope management and delivery;134
13.6.1;Tool: Scope Tracker;138
13.7;Set-up plan delivery case study – purchasing business process improvement;142
13.8;Troubleshooting set-up plan delivery;155
13.9;Handy hints;157
13.10;And finally…;158
14;Chapter 5 Control plan delivery;160
14.1;What is a project control plan?;160
14.2;How to manage delivery of a project control plan;160
14.3;Risk and issue management;163
14.3.1;Tool: Project Risk Profile;168
14.3.2;Tool: Project HACCP (parts a and b);173
14.3.3;Tool: Issue Action Manager;176
14.4;Contract and supplier management;178
14.4.1;Tool: Contract Tracker;182
14.4.2;Tool: Supplier Performance Management Tool (parts a and b);183
14.5;Project control strategy;190
14.5.1;Tool: Project Control Tracker;197
14.6;Project review;204
14.6.1;Tool: Project Waste Analysis Tool;206
14.6.2;Tool: Project Diagnosis Fishbone;210
14.7;Control plan delivery case study – construction project;212
14.8;Troubleshooting control plan delivery;221
14.9;Handy hints;223
14.10;And finally…;223
15;Chapter 6 When projects go wrong;224
15.1;Case study A – business change project;226
15.2;Case study B – IT project;231
15.3;Case study C – product launch project;235
15.4;Case study D – biopharma facility project;238
15.5;Case study E – petrochemicals facility project;241
15.6;And remember…;244
16;Chapter 7 Case Study One: capital engineering project;246
16.1;Situation;246
16.2;Project delivery;249
16.3;Conclusions;269
16.4;Lessons learnt;269
17;Chapter 8 Case Study Two: accounts system improvement;270
17.1;Situation;270
17.2;Project delivery;273
17.3;Conclusions;292
17.4;Lessons learnt;294
18;Chapter 9 Appendices;296
18.1;Appendix 9.1 – The 'Why?' Checklist;297
18.2;Appendix 9.2 – The 'How?' Checklist;298
18.3;Appendix 9.3 – The 'In Control?' Checklist;301
18.4;Appendix 9.4 – The 'Benefits Realized?' Checklist;303
18.5;Appendix 9.5 – The Project Management Toolkit;304
18.6;Appendix 9.6 – The Planning Toolkit;305
18.7;Appendix 9.7 – The Benefits Management Toolkit;306
18.8;Appendix 9.8 – Glossary;307
18.9;Appendix 9.9 – References;309
19;Index;310
19.1;A;310
19.2;B;310
19.3;C;310
19.4;D;310
19.5;E;311
19.6;F;311
19.7;G;311
19.8;H;311
19.9;I;311
19.10;K;311
19.11;L;311
19.12;M;311
19.13;P;311
19.14;Q;311
19.15;R;311
19.16;S;311
19.17;T;312
19.18;U;312
19.19;V;312
19.20;W;312