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Emerald is pleased to announce the publication of Successful Project Management Practices. For full information please see below

Successful Project Management Practices

Authors: Parviz F Rad and Vittal Anantatmula

ISBN 9781849507608

Format Hardback, 165mm x 240mm, 182 pages

Publication Date 14th June 2010

This book describes the attributes, procedures, and policies that reflect sophisticated organizations. The main theme of the book is the notion that project management success requires the presence of three major components: skilled individuals, productive teams, and a project-friendly enterprise. It emphasizes the integrative and multi-faceted approach that enterprises must take in order to achieve success in project management. The major topics presented are intended to set the stage for the discussion on an integrative approach, rather than a treatise on each of those topics.

This hands-on, practical book:

• elaborates on the importance of project management sophistication and the value of formalizing activities;
• highlights some of the key issues of project planning and management;
• enumerates the skills that project management professionals of a sophisticated organization would have;
• addresses challenges associated with managing multi-generational project teams;
• deals with organizational procedures that address people skills, organizational culture, cohesive teams, and productive teams;
• describes the organizational attributes, and senior management behavior, that would be symptomatic of the organizations that regard projects as important strategic instruments for achieving attractive profits;
• and outlines the formalized facilitation that the project management office provide for teams that manage projects and proposals, using sophisticated and proven project management processes.

Refreshing, revolutionary and real, this book is essential reading for those project management professionals who are poised to take a pragmatic and formalized approach to using projects.

TOC

Preface

1.        Introduction

1.1     Organizational Success and Sophistication

2         Project Management Facets

2.1      Project Success

2.2      Characterize Project Success

2.3      Project Environment

2.4      Terminology Highlighted

2.5      Infrastructure – PMO

3  Competent Project Management Professionals and Practices

3.1  Project Planning

3.2     Project Risk

3.3    Contracts

3.4    Project Monitoring and Change Management

3.5   Project Closeout

3.6   Proposal Development

3.7  Portfolios

4   Productive Teams

4.1   Team Charter 

4.2   Virtual Teams

4.3    Generational Attributes of Project Teams

4.4 Role of Technology  

5  Project Friendly Organizations

5.1   Delegate, Micromanage

5.2   The charismatic project manager

5.3   Technology-Assisted Micro-Management

5.4   Articulate Strategic Objectives

5.5   Projects

5.6   Proposals

5.7   Portfolios

5.8   Incremental Attempts at Sophistication      

6  PMO as the Guiding Light

6.1  PMO Functions    

6.2   Projects

6.3   Proposals

6.4   Portfolios

Bibliography

Appendices 

Index

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