Project Management

Projects need leaders who can give them vision, identity, keep the stakeholders and the project team on board and make the difficult decisions. This book explains the key leadership models and shows how they can be applied within projects to lead processes, functions and people and ensure an ethical..

From the perspective of delivering successful projects, the value of a skilled project sponsor and project manager outweighs many other factors. This book explains the key leadership models of managerial, intellectual and emotional leadership and shows how they can be applied within projects to lead..

The majority of problems in projects are due to intentional or unintentional human actions. People make poor estimates, forget something, have poor communication, or make other seemingly small mistakes, which conspire together to lead to larger issues. ProjectThink identifies the paths that lead t..

In his ground-breaking book, Mark Phillips shows how even the most mature organizations can fail to deliver successful projects - and worse, how this can lead to an organization's demise. With clear examples, Mark reveals the underlying principals at work and introduces a revolutionary new technique..

In his ground-breaking book, Mark Phillips shows how even the most mature organizations can fail to deliver successful projects - and worse, how this can lead to an organization's demise. With clear examples, Mark reveals the underlying principals at work and introduces a revolutionary new technique..

Poor requirements management is one of the top five contributors to poor project performance. In extreme, safety critical or emergency-relief situations, failure to satisfy the real needs of the project stakeholders may well lead directly to loss of life or human suffering; other, more mundane, proj..

If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always got, and if what you've always got isn't good enough, you need to do something else. Second Order Project Management will help alleviate the frustration that every member of the profession has experienced when trying to gain approval f..

Shadow Working in Project Management explores the tools and techniques available to get in touch with the Shadow aspects of self and collective, to recognize how it manifests, how it can lead to conflict, and ways to address it. Despite being directed to managers and dedicated to the analyses of the..

The concept of sustainability has grown in recognition and importance. This title explores and identifies the questions surrounding the integration of the concepts of sustainability in projects and project management and provides guidance and insights...

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...

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...

The product of nearly a decade of work, this revolutionary book illustrates some of the issues with current approaches in project planning and management due to outdated computational tools that operate on methods created in the 1950s. It presents the Dynamic Progress Method (DPM), an innovative sim..