The Project Workout

Reap Rewards of All Your Business Projects

Robert Buttrick

432 pages, parution le 31/12/1999 (2^eme édition)

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Résumé

Projects are an important strategic management tool and a way of life for every business person. But how do you get started and ensure a successful outcome? This book takes the reader step by step through project management, acting as a companion and guide to ultimate project success.
The book provides:

a practical, hands-on, diagnostic guide
offers help at every stage from building a team right up to reaping the rewards
new edition will be redesigned both inside and out
includes a CD for interactive work
shows how to measure critical factors & diagnose the difficulties of implementation
demonstrates how to analyse both the project as a single entity and the complexities of simultaneous projects
shows how to assess resource strategy and management, analyse one's understanding of the business culture and improve project tracking

Challenges to be faced
- 1. Challenges We Need to Face
- 2. Advice the Best Companies Give Us
A walk through a project
- 3. The Project Framework: an Overview of its Gates and Stages
- 4. Who Does What?
- 5. The Proposal: Identify the Need
- 6. The Initial Investigation Stage: Have a Quick Look at it!
- 7. The Detailed Investigation Stage: Promising...Let's Have a Closer Look
- 8. The Develop and Test Stage: Do It!
- 9. The Trial Stage: Try it Out
- 10. The Release Stage: Lets Get Going!
- 11. The Post Implementation Review: How Did We Do?
- 12. Applying the Stage Framework
- 13. A Few Related Projects: Programs
Dealing with many projects
- 14. Portfolios of Projects
- 15. There Are Two Many Projects To Do!
- 16. Have I Got the Resources?
- 17. An Environment for Managing your Portfolio
Making projects work for you
- 18. Project Teams and Style
- 19. Project Set Up
- 20. Managing Benefits
- 21. Managing the Schedule
- 22. Managing the Finances
- 23.Managing What Might Go Wrong (or Right): Risks and Opportunities
- 24. Managing What Has Gone Wrong (or Right!): Issues
- 25. Lets Do It Differently!: Change Management
- 26. Reviews and More Reviews
- 27. Closing the Project
Implemeting the framework
- 28. Implementing the Framework
- Appendix A Brainstorming
- Appendix B Glossary
- Appendix C A Project Process Framework
- Index

L'auteur - Robert Buttrick

Titulaire d'un MBA du Henley Management College, Robert Buttrick est aujourd'hui directeur de projets à BT (anciennement British Telecom) et propriétaire de Project Workout Limited. Il a travaillé pour la Banque Mondiale à Washington sur l'évaluation de projets d'investissement dans les pays émergents. Il a également été consultant en gestion de projets dans des secteurs très divers, notamment la construction, les télécommunications, les finances et la santé. Il donne des conférences à European Business School, Regents College.

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Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Prentice Hall
Auteur(s)	Robert Buttrick
Parution	31/12/1999
Édition	2^eme édition
Nb. de pages	432
Format	24 x 17
Couverture	Broché
Poids	900g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780273644361