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Title:
Project Governance
Author:
Ralf Müller
In this book, Ralf Müller provides a well-researched framework to explain the different preferences organizations have in goal setting, along with the best-practices, roles and responsibilities related to governance tasks.
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Title:
Managing Project Uncertainty
Author:
David Cleadon
Dealing effectively with uncertainty requires today's project manager to be familiar with a broad spectrum of strategies, encompassing both 'hard' and 'soft' methods. This theme of unified thinking (i.e. the need to selectively draw upon a wide range of strategies in any given situation) will differentiate the book from its contemporaries. By picking up where traditional risk management techniques begin to fail, it brings together leading-edge thinking from a variety of disciplines and shows how these techniques can be used to conquer uncertainty in projects.
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Title:
Practical Schedule Risk Analysis
Author:
David Hillson
Why schedule risk analysis? Looking beyond the critical path method; Uncertainty in activity durations: using probability distributions; Uncertainty along a schedule path: using Monte Carlo simulation; A good project schedule is needed: Critical Path Method scheduling 101; Collecting risk data: exploring methods and problems; Where parallel paths merge: introducing the 'merge bias' and risk criticality; Probabilistic branching: analyzing discrete risk events; Using risks to drive the analysis and prioritize risks: introducing the 'risk driver' method; Schedule contingency plans: using conditional branching; When activity durations move together: incorporating correlation; Risk management in the organization: identifying the mature risk management culture; Appendix: the problem with PERT; Index.
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Title:
Managing Risk in Projects
Author:
David Hillson
Managing Risk in Projects places risk management in its proper context in the world of project management and beyond, and emphasises the central concepts that are essential in order to understand why and how risk management should be implemented on all projects of all types and sizes, in all industries and in all countries.
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Title:
Systems Cost Engineering
Author:
Dale Shermon
Parametric cost estimating models are flexible tools which bring engineering, scientific and mathematical rigour to cost and schedule estimating, but great tools alone will not keep programs affordable. Tools must be applied as part of a credible process if estimates and analyses are to be accepted.
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Title:
Images of Projects
Authors:
Mark Winter and Tony Szczepanek
Images of Projects challenges how we think about projects in the most fundamental way: it rejects outright the idea of a one 'best way' to view all projects and also the idea of following a prescriptive approach. In contrast, Images of Projects seeks to encourage a more pragmatic and reflective approach, based on deliberately seeing projects from multiple perspectives, exploring the insights and implications which flow from these, and crafting appropriate action strategies in complex situations.
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Title:
Stakeholder Relationship Management
Author:
Lynda Bourne
The text has two specific purposes. Firstly, it is an 'how-to' book providing the fundamental processes and practices for improving stakeholder management in endeavours such as projects, and program management offices (PMO), it also gives guidance on organisational survival during mergers and acquisitions, preparing for the tender bidding, and marketing campaigns. Secondly, Lynda Bourne's book is for organisations that have recognised the importance of stakeholder engagement to their success, it is a guidebook for assessing their current maturity regarding implementation of stakeholder relationship management with a series of guidelines and milestones for achieving the preferred level of maturity.
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Title:
Strategic Project Risk Appraisal and Management
Author:
Elaine Harris
This book examines the challenges that managers face in assessing the likely risks and benefits that need to be taken into account when choosing projects. It then explores the strategic level risks that will need to be dealt with in managing those projects and suggests risk management strategies. In so doing, it makes a rare but important link between strategic level appraisal of project opportunities and project risk management.
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Title:
Accelerating Business and IT Change: Transforming Project Delivery
Authors:
Alan Fowler and Dennis Lock
This book shows how project sponsors can radically improve the certainty of getting the benefits that they want and accelerate their projects to get them sooner rather than later (or never). Finance and portfolio managers will find techniques that provide them with the means for drilling down and tracking not only the costs, but also the cash values of project benefits, both tangible and intangible. Business people and project managers will find ideas here that enable them to create and control change in communities of stakeholders; which is the ultimate aim of the organizations that are investing time, resources and money in projects of this kind.
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Title:
Project Delivery in Business-as-Usual Organizations
Author:
Tim Carroll
This book shows how project sponsors can radically improve the certainty of getting the benefits that they want and accelerate their projects to get them sooner rather than later (or never). Finance and portfolio managers will find techniques that provide them with the means for drilling down and tracking not only the costs, but also the cash values of project benefits, both tangible and intangible. Business people and project managers will find ideas here that enable them to create and control change in communities of stakeholders; which is the ultimate aim of the organizations that are investing time, resources and money in projects of this kind.
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Title:
Benefit Realisation Management:
A Practical Guide to Achieving Benefits Through Change
Author:
Gerald Bradley
Gerald Bradley's Benefit Realisation Management is a highly practical guide to using measures to track performance throughout and beyond a programme's life; enabling you to eliminate wasted investment, realise more benefits and realise them earlier.
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Title:
The Project Manager's Guide to Purchasing
Contracting for Goods and Services
Author:
Garth Ward
This very practical guide describes the whole process of contracting for goods and services, from selecting tenderers to placing a contract. It details the key topics that are necessary for success, such as contract strategy, contract types, contract law and evaluating tenders. Whilst the book also addresses the project context in which purchasing takes place, the subject matter could equally be applied to any business context.
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Title:
Global Project Management:
Communication, Collaboration and Management Across Borders
Author:
Jean Binder
Global Project Management describes how to adapt your organisation and your projects to thrive in the Global environment. The book goes beyond the recommendations on collaborative tools, to suggest the development of best practices on cross-cultural team management and global communication, recommend organisational changes and project structures, and propose alternatives for the implementation of the new practices and methods.
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Title:
Making Sense of Project Realities
Theory, Practice and the Pursuit of Performance
Author:
Charles Smith
Charles Smith's groundbreaking book Making Sense of Project Realities offers convincing explanations as to why project management theory and practice have become disconnected and describes the kind of complex, human skills that are required to deliver successful projects.
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Title:
Tools for Complex Projects
Authors:
Kaye Remington and Julien Pollack
The main part of the book provides a series of fourteen project tools. Some of these tools may be used at the level of the whole project life-cycle. Others may be applied ad hoc at any time. In each case, the authors provide: detailed guidelines for using the tool, information on its purpose and the types of complexity for which it is most appropriate, the theoretical background to the tool, a practical example of its use, and any necessary words of caution.
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Title:
Project Management
Author:
Dennis Lock
Dennis Lock's masterly exposition of the principles and practice of project management has been pre-eminent in its field for four decades. It was among the very few early books to treat project management holistically, rather than as a collection of separate techniques. It thus explains the entire project management process in great detail, demonstrating techniques ranging from the simplest of charts to sophisticated computer applications. Everything is reinforced throughout with case examples and diagrams.
The text has been completely restructured and largely rewritten for this ninth edition.
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Title:
Project Reviews, Assurance and Governance
Author:
Graham Oakes
Graham Oakes' Project Reviews, Assurance and Governance is about learning from your mistakes and understanding what's really going on with your projects. In order for reviews and assurance to provide you with this information and learning, you need to perform them effectively and that is the purpose of this book.
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Title:
Handbook of Project Management
Author:
Edited by Rodney Turner
This book is intended as a handbook for project management practitioners. The aim is to give an introduction to, and overview of, the essential knowledge required for managing projects. A team of experienced practitioners have been selected to introduce the reader to the knowledge and skills required to manage projects.
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Title:
The Bid Manager’s Handbook
Author:
David Nickson
The original Bid Manager's Handbook continues to provide an invaluable resource in the battle to win new business. Winning significant business on the right terms is an increasingly complex, challenging and time-consuming task, and a successful bid is a vital part of any business offering its services or products to another. This book will help you to enhance the probability of success in winning bids at the desired margins and to set up and run effectively a bid management team. The Handbook is aimed at sales staff managing multi-disciplinary bid teams, and project and technical managers who find themselves managing a bid to support a sales campaign.
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Title:
Training for Project Management
Volume 1: Skills and Principles
Authors:
Ian Stokes, Metanaction, France
This manual contains exercises and activities which stimulate learning about managing projects, focusing particularly on the people and leadership aspects. They are intended not only to make learning more fun, but also to speed up the process.
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Title:
Reducing Project Risk
Authors:
Ralph L. Kliem and Irwin S. Ludin
Drawing on examples from a variety of business activities as well as on their own extensive experience, the authors propose a systematic approach to dealing with risk. They provide both a conceptual framework and the practical techniques for identifying, analysing and controlling risks of any type.
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Title:
The Project Manager's Guide to Handling Risk
Author:
Alan Webb
Drawing on examples from a variety of business activities as well as on their own extensive experience, the authors propose a systematic approach to dealing with risk. They provide both a conceptual framework and the practical techniques for identifying, analysing and controlling risks of any type.
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Title:
Contracting for Engineering and Construction Projects
Author:
Peter Marsh
Peter Marsh’s book has long been recognized as a standard work. With its emphasis on the commercial aspects of contracting, this book represents an eminently practical guide to this complex subject for purchaser and contractor alike. This new edition has been brought fully up to date to reflect recent changes in case law and legislation, the major change being the passing of the Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996.
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Title:
Failsafe IS Project Delivery
Author:
Andrew Holmes
Even though IT has become indispensable to almost all of our day-to-day activities, everyone has experience of the problems created by poorly-built IT systems: reduced productivity, increased rework, frustration, and lower customer satisfaction. Success without understanding why has the tendency to breed complacency - a significant risk to any undertaking. Failure, on the other hand, can have the opposite effect - it forces you to learn and provides the opportunity to know how to become more successful. This book looks at how information systems projects can be made more successful, by understanding why and how they fail.
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Title:
Project Management for Successful Product Innovation
Author:
Alan Webb
This comprehensive book provides a complete guide to managing projects involving the development of new products. It aims to give the practising project manager an insight into the many processes that are involved in handling one of the most complex of industrial activities.
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Title:
Advanced Project Management: A Structured Approach
Authors:
Frederick Harrison and Dennis Lock
When Advanced Project Management first appeared it quickly acquired a reputation for excellence on both sides of the Atlantic as a book that successfully bridges the gap between introductory texts on project management and specialist works on professional practice. Its aim is twofold: to provide a guide for managers, engineers, accountants and others involved in project work, and a reference for advanced students of project and construction management.
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Title:
Managing Unique Assignments:
A Team Approach to Projects and Programmes
Authors:
Gert Wijnen and Rudy Kor
This book presents the core ideas of both project and programme management. These ideas have all been tried and tested by Twynstra Management Consultants and their experiences have been invaluable in our attempt to clearly describe what it means to work on unique assignments in practice and, more especially, what it means to manage them. Managing Unique Assignments can be read from cover to cover, but it can also be dipped into at will.
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Title:
The Relationship Manager
The Next Generation of Project Management
Authors:
Tony Davis and Richard Pharro
The Relationship Manager has been written to fill the gap between technical and business aspects of successful project delivery. It provides practical guidance on how to make this new way of working a reality and details the skills and techniques necessary to make a success of the latest developments in project management.
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Title:
Using Earned Value
A Project Manager's Guide
Author:
Alan Webb
The book uses worked examples, cases and anecdotes from the author's own extensive experience to bring the technical subject of Earned Value to life. Alan's writing style is direct and economical, which means that whether you are dipping into chapters for reference or reading about the process from cover to cover, everything he has to say is pertinent and helpful.
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Title:
The Project Management A-Z: A Compendium of Project Management Techniques and How to Use Them
Author:
Alan Wren
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
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Title:
Managing Web Projects:
The Management of Large Projects and Programmes for Web-Space Delivery
Author:
J. Rodney Turner
Managing Web Projects describes how to manage a successful web-delivery project. Running throughout is a case study (based on a real occurrence) that is developed chapter by chapter to demonstrate project management concepts in the context of a web-delivery project. The book is illustrated throughout by examples, also drawn from actual cases of web-delivery projects. An appendix provides essential planning forms described in the book as well as the forms for the case study project running throughout.
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Title:
Law for Project Managers
Author:
David Wright
Law for Project Managers provides an easily understandable and practical guide to the laws of contract, liability, intellectual property and so on, entirely from the perspective of the project manager. It will enable you to approach projects forewarned and forearmed, able to avoid potential legal problems altogether.
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Title:
Handbook of Programme Management
Authors:
Geoff Reiss, Malcolm Anthony, John Chapman, Geof Leigh, Adrian Pyne and Paul Rayner
This Handbook provides authoritative guidance and advice, templates, concepts, systems and approaches on every aspect of successful programme management. The main part of the handbook presents a detailed description of the whole programme management process, together with the requisite supporting infrastructure essential for the delivery of planned programme outcomes. The book also includes The Programme Management Maturity Model, a benchmarking tool covering the ten key processes within programme management, plus the Programme Management Improvement Process: a step-by-step guide to improving an organization's ability to deliver change.
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