Project Management in Practice

THE NATURE AND SELECTION OF PROJECTS. 1.1 What Is a Project? 1.2 Project Management vs. General Management. 1.3 What Is Managed? The Three Goals of a Project. 1.4 The Life Cycles of Projects. 1.5 Selecting Projects to Meet Organizational Objectives. 1.6 Confronting Uncertainty-the Management of Risk. 1.7 The Project Portfolio Process. 1.8 The Materials in this Text. THE MANY TASKS OF MANAGING AND ORGANIZING PROJECTS. 2.1 The PM's Roles. 2.2 The PM's Responsibilities to the Project. 2.3 Selection of a Project Manager. 2.4 Project Management as a Profession. 2.5 Fitting Projects Into the Parent Organization. 2.6 The Project Team. THE PROCESS OF PLANNING A PROJECT. 3.1 The Contents of a Project Plan-The "Project Charter". 3.2 The Planning Process-Overview. 3.3 The Planning Process-Nuts and Bolts. 3.4 More on the Work Breakdown Structure and Other Aids. 3.5 Multidisciplinary Teams-Balancing Pleasure and Pain. FROM PROJECT PLAN TO PROJECT BUDGET. 4.1 Methods of Budgeting. 4.2 Cost Estimating. 4.3 Improving Cost Estimates. 4.4 Budget Uncertainty and Risk Management. SCHEDULING THE WORK OF A PROJECT. 5.1 PERT and CPM Networks. 5.2 Project Uncertainty and Risk Management. 5.3 Simulation. 5.4 The Gantt Chart. 5.5 Extensions to PERT/CPM. THE ALLOCATION OF SCARCE RESOURCES TO MULTIPLE PROJECTS. 6.1 Expediting a Project. 6.2 Resource Loading. 6.3 Resource Leveling. 6.4 Allocating Scarce Resources to Projects. 6.5 Allocating Scarce Resources to Several Projects. 6.6 Goldratt's Critical Chain. KEEP PROJECTS ON COURSE, TIME, AND BUDGET. 7.1 The Plan-Monitor-Control Cycle. 7.2 Data Collection and Reporting. 7.3 Earned Value. 7.4 Project Control. 7.5 Designing the Control System. 7.6 Scope Creep and Change Control. COMPLETING AND EVALUATING THE PROJECT. 8.1 Evaluation. 8.2 Project Auditing. 8.3 Project Termination. APPENDIX A: PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS. A.1 Probability. A.2 Event Relationships and Probability Laws. A.3 Statistics. NAME INDEX. SUBJECT INDEX.