Advances in Project Management: Narrated Journeys in Unchartered Territory
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1. Verfasser: Dalcher, Darren (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Farnham Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2014
Schriftenreihe:Advances in project management
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Beschreibung:Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; About the Editor; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; 1 Uncertainty: Managing Project Uncertainty; That Uncertain Feeling; 2 Strategic Risk: When do Projects Begin? Addressing Strategic Project Appraisal Issues; Strategic Project Risk Appraisal and Management; 3 Risk: Risks or Projects?; Managing Risk in Projects: What's New?; 4 Governance: Facing Uncertainty: Project Governance and Control; Project Governance; 5 Programme Management: Managing Uncertainty through Programmes; Programme Management beyond Standards and Guides
6 Risk Leadership: Beyond Tame Problems: The Case for Risk LeadershipThe Application of the 'New Sciences' to Risk and Project Management; 7 Leadership: In Search of Project Leadership; Project-oriented Leadership; 8 Earned Value: Progress and Performance: The Case for Extending Earned Value Management; Effective Measurement of Time Performance using Earned Value Management; 9 Spiritual Inspiration: Inspiration in Teams: Searching for a New Intelligence; Spirituality in Project Management Teams; 10 Ethics: Project Ethics and Professionalism: The Making of a Profession?
Project Ethics: The Critical Path to Development11 Stakeholders: Can We Satisfy Project Stakeholders?; What Does the Project Stakeholder Value?; 12 Supply Chains: Managing Connected Supply Chains; Managing Project Supply Chains; 13 Second Order Project Management: Making Sense of Complexity: Towards a Higher Order; A Case for Second Order Project Management; 14 Sustainability: Sustainability: A New Professional Responsibility?; Taking Responsibility: The Integration of Sustainability and Project Management; 15 Psychology: The Psychology of Projects: What the Bodies of Knowledge Don't Tell Us
The Psychology of Project Management16 Benefits: Overstating the Benefits?; Benefits Realisation -- Building on (un)Safe Foundations or Planning for Success?; 17 The Burden of Making Good Decisions; Decision Making under Stress -- Advice for Project Leaders; 18 Leadership Communication: The Art of Communication; Communicating Upwards for Effect; 19 Sustainable Impacts: Sustainability and Success; Sustainable Change in Large Projects; 20 Knowledge: Is There a Universal Theory of Project Management?; The Coming Sea-Change in Project Management Science
21 Senior Management: From Projects to Strategy, and Back AgainEvidence of the Neglect of Project Management by Senior Executives; Summary: Project Management Research: The Long Journey; Index
Many organisations have struggled to apply the traditional models of project management to their new projects in the global environment. Indeed, projects continue to fail at an alarming rate. A major part of the build-up to failure is often the lack of adequate project management knowledge and experience. Advances in Project Management covers key areas of improvement in understanding and project capability further up the management chain; amongst strategy and senior decision makers and amongst professional project and programme managers. This collection, drawn from some of the world's leading
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