Performance-Based Project Management: Increasing the Probability of Project Success - Hardcover

Allenman, Glen B.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0814433308 ISBN 13: 9780814433300

Verlag: AMACOM, 2014

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Projects fail to meet goals for many reasons: poor time and budget performance, failure to deal with complexity, uncontrolled changes in scope... Even the most experienced project managers can be caught off guard in the presence of these forces. Performance-Based Project Management shows readers how they can increase the probability of project success, detailing a straightforward plan for avoiding surprises, forecasting performance, identifying risk, and taking corrective action to keep a project a success.

Based on the “Five Immutable Principles of Project Success,” this book shows project leaders how to assess the business capabilities needed for a project; plan and schedule the work; determine the resources required to complete on time and on budget; identify and manage risks to success; and measure performance in units meaningful to decision makers.

Project managers will learn the core practices for each principle, as well as associated processes, so that they can lay the foundation for project success from the start. They’ll discover how each process produces “artifacts,” which provide feedback as to whether everything is going well—and if not, when and how it will be fixed.

Each practice is illustrated through examples and tailored for different levels of complexity and risk to help project managers ensure that project aren’t just done—they’re done right.

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Projects fail to meet goals for many reasons: poor time and budget performance, inability to deal with complexity, uncontrolled changes in scope. Even the most experienced project managers can be caught off guard.

Performance-Based Project Management helps you avoid nasty surprises and enhance the probability of success. Rather than simply implementing technical and operational requirements--the traditional approach--you'll learn to focus on providing specified capabilities that produce measurable business value.

Performance-Based Project Management adapts the project management methods originating in the aerospace industry to accommodate any project, in any industry, and of any size. A step-by-step framework in the form of immutable principles, practices, and processes explains how to:

* Determine business capabilities before launching into a project--a crucial marker for recognizing when the project is done

* Plan and schedule the work to produce these capabilities

* Assess what resources are needed

* Identify and manage risks to success

* Measure performance in units meaningful to decision makers

* Forecast outcomes and take corrective actions when needed

By applying core practices for each principle, as well as associated processes, you'll lay the foundation for achieving predictable outcomes. Each practice is illustrated through examples and can be tailored for different levels of complexity.

Performance-Based Project Management gives you full visibility of both the physical progress and business value progress at each stage of the project, from inception to close out, and incorporates every critical success factor. You'll have fewer surprises and better results--mission accomplished!

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: AMACOM
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0814433308
• ISBN 13: 9780814433300
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256