Project Management FrameworkCRC Press, 2005 M08 12 - 300 pages This book covers the framework of project management, a discipline that is topical in many quarters. The aims of ‘Project Management Framework’ are to understand project management and to stimulate and contribute to a structured way of thinking in applying this discipline. In this work, a systems view to project management is described, based on the realization that management is a synthesis or inverse problem. One of the overriding reasons for writing this book was to counter the myriad of misconceptions and thinking errors that exist amount project management writers and practitioners. In addition, the usage of correct terminology and application of right level of thinking are discussed as factors contributing to the heart of more mature management practices.
This book is intended to serve students, teachers and practitioners. As only very few prerequisites are needed apart from a basic interest in projects, some exposure to the discipline and a systematic thinking ability, this book serves a broad group of interested readers who want to know more about the discipline. |
Contents
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CHAPTER 2 Projects and Project Life Cycles | 19 |
CHAPTER 3 What is Project Management? | 51 |
CHAPTER 4 Systematic General Problem Solving | 63 |
APPENDIX 41 Value Management | 78 |
APPENDIX 42 Risk Management | 84 |
APPENDIX 43 Work Study | 94 |
PART B STARTING A PROJECT OFF | 105 |
PART D PROJECT EXAMPLES | 191 |
CHAPTER 10 Movie Making | 193 |
CHAPTER 11 Organisational Change | 203 |
CHAPTER 12 Converting to a ProjectBased Organisation | 215 |
CHAPTER 13 Technical v NonTechnical Projects | 219 |
CHAPTER 14 Projects with IllDefined Scope | 227 |
CHAPTER 15 FastTracked Projects | 237 |
PART E A FRESH LOOK AT PROJECT MANAGEMENT | 249 |
CHAPTER 5 Early Project Activities | 107 |
CHAPTER 6 A Projects Origin | 119 |
CHAPTER 7 Objectives and Constraints | 143 |
CHAPTER 8 Project Scope | 171 |
PART C OTHER LIFE CYCLE ACTIVITIES | 183 |
CHAPTER 9 Other Life Cycle Activities | 185 |
CHAPTER 16 Systems Thinking | 251 |
CHAPTER 17 Staged Phased Decomposition of Projects | 267 |
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Back Cover | 287 |