Contents
Project management life-cycle on a page
1 Project management: An adaptable body of knowledge
What exactly is project management?
Developing management and leadership attributes
Competing project management methodologies
Navigating the project life-cycles
2 Organisational capability: Emerging strategy, justification and capability
Escalating thought bubbles to projects
The role of an inspiring strategy
Revisiting operational reality
Maintaining the credibility of change
Modelling the process of managing change
Justifying the strategic decision
Project organisational structures
Culture and its organisational impact
3 Stakeholder management: Strategies for continuous engagement
Is stakeholder identification enough?
Control stakeholder engagement
4 Scope management: Delivering on changing expectations
Building in objective validation criteria
5 Time management: Developing and controlling the schedule
Planning the schedule management approach
Defining the project activities
Identifying the resource capability
Experimenting with the sequence
Accelerated or delayed delivery
Don’t get hung up on time just yet
Working with the critical path
6 Cost management: Ending the reliance on the budget variance
7 Quality management: Achieving technical excellence and customer satisfaction
Planning for quality management
8 Human resource management: Developing and maintaining individual and team performance
Planning for human resource management
Acquiring the multi-generational project team
9 Communications management: Matching intent with outcome
Planning communications management
Managing project communications
The project performance reports
Controlling communications management
10 Risk management: Proactively managing uncertainty, complexity and change
Performing qualitative and quantitative risk analysis
11 Procurement management: Embedding value into the project
Planning procurement management
Conducting procurement activities
Controlling procurement activities
Closing out procurement activities
12 Integration management: Unifying a coordinated approach
Developing the project proposal
Developing the project management plan
Directing and managing the work
Monitoring and controlling the performance
Performing integrated change control
What about early project termination?
Appendix 2: Linking theory and practice activities