Project Management: Achieving Competitive Advantage

Preface

• Project Profiles and Cases
• Solving Teaching And Learning Challenges
• Developing Employability Skills

Introduction: Why Project Management?

• Project Profile
• The Need for Projects
• What is a Project?
• Project Profile
• Why are Projects Important?
• Project Profile
• Project Life Cycles
• Determinants of Project Success
• Developing Project Management Maturity
• Employability Skills
• Project Elements and Text Organization
• Summary
• Discussion Questions
• Case Study 1.1
• Case Study 1.2
• Case Study 1.3
• Case Study 1.4

The Organizational Context: Strategy, Structure, and Culture

• Project Profile
• Implementing Strategy Through Projects
• Projects and Organizational Strategy
• Stakeholder Management
• Identifying Project Stakeholders
• Organizational Structure
• Project Management Offices
• Organizational Culture
• Project Profile
• Summary
• Discussion Questions
• Case Study 2.1
• Case Study 2.2
• Case Study 2.3
• Case Study 2.4
• Integrated Project

Project Selection and Portfolio Management

• Project Profile
• Introduction: Project Selection
• Approaches to Project Screening and Selection
• Financial Models
• Project Profile
• Project Portfolio Management
• Summary
• Discussion Questions
• Case Study 3.1
• Case Study 3.2
• Internet Exercises

Leadership and the Project Manager

• Project Profile
• Introduction: Successful Projects Need Leaders
• Leaders Versus Managers
• How the Project Manager Leads
• Traits of Effective Project Leaders
• Project Profile
• Project Champions
• The New Project Leadership
• Project Profile
• Project Management Professionalism
• Project Management and Ethics
• Project Profile
• Summary
• Discussion Questions
• Case Study 4.1
• Case Study 4.2
• Case Study 4.3
• Case Study 4.4

Scope Management

• Project Profile
• Introduction: The Importance of Scope Management
• Conceptual Development
• Project Profile
• The Scope Statement
• Project Profile
• Work Authorization
• Scope Reporting
• Control Systems
• Project Closeout
• Project Management and Sustainability
• Project Profile
• Summary
• Discussion Questions
• Case Study 5.1
• Case Study 5.2
• Case Study 5.3
• Case Study 5.4
• Internet Exercises

Project Team Building, Conflict, and Negotiation

• Project Profile
• Introduction
• Building the Project Team
• Characteristics of Effective Project Teams
• Reasons Why Teams Fail
• Stages in Group Development
• Achieving Cross-Functional Cooperation
• Virtual Project Teams
• Project Profile
• Conflict Management
• Project Profile
• Negotiation
• Summary
• Discussion Questions
• Case Study 6.1
• Case Study 6.2
• Case Study 6.3
• Exercise in Negotiation
• Internet Exercises

Risk Management

• Project Profile
• Introduction: What is Project Risk?
• Risk Management: A Four-Stage Process
• Project Profile
• Project Profile
• Project Risk Management: An Integrated Approach
• Summary
• Discussion Questions
• Case Study 7.1
• Case Study 7.2
• Case Study 7.3
• Internet Exercises

Cost Estimation and Budgeting

• Project Profile
• Cost Management 
• Cost Estimation
• Creating a Project Budget
• Developing Budget Contingencies
• Summary
• Discussion Questions
• Case Study 8.1
• Case Study 8.2
• Internet Exercises

Project Scheduling: Networks, Duration Estimation, and Critical Path

• Project Profile
• Introduction
• Project Scheduling
• Key Scheduling Terminology
• Developing A Network
• Duration Estimation
• Constructing the Critical Path
• Summary
• Discussion Questions
• Case Study 9.1

Project Scheduling: Lagging, Crashing, and Activity Networks

• Project Profile
• Introduction
• Lags in Precedence Relationships
• Gantt Charts
• Crashing Projects
• Activity-On-Arrow Networks
• Controversies in the Use of Networks
• Summary
• Discussion Questions
• Case Study 10.1
• Case Study 10.2

Advanced Topics in Planning and Scheduling: Agile and Critical Chain

• Project Profile
• Introduction
• Agile Project Management
• Extreme Programming (XP)
• Theory of Constraints and Critical Chain Project Scheduling
• The Critical Chain Solution to Project Scheduling
• Project Profile
• Critical Chain Solutions to Resource Conflicts
• Critical Chain Project Portfolio Management
• Summary
• Discussion Questions
• Case Study 11.1
• Case Study 11.2

Resource Management

• Project Profile
• Introduction
• The Basics of Resource Constraints
• Resource Loading
• Resource Leveling
• Resource-Loading Charts
• Managing Resources in Multiproject Environments
• Summary
• Discussion Questions
• Case Study 12.1
• Case Study 12.2

Project Evaluation and Control

• Project Profile
• Introduction
• Control Cycles—A General Model
• Monitoring Project Performance
• Earned Value Management
• Using Earned Value to Manage a Portfolio of Projects
• Project Profile
• Issues in the Effective Use of Earned Value Management
• Human Factors in Project Evaluation and Control
• Conclusions
• Summary
• Discussion Questions
• Case Study 13.1
• Case Study 13.2
• Case Study 13.3

Project Closeout and Termination

• Project Profile
• Introduction
• Types of Project Termination
• Natural Termination—the Closeout Process
• Early Termination for Projects
• Project Profile
• Preparing the Final Project Report
• Conclusion
• Summary
• Discussion Questions
• Case Study 14.1
• Case Study 14.2
• Case Study 14.3

APPENDIX A: The Cumulative Standard Normal Distribution

APPENDIX B: Tutorial for MS Project 2016

• EXERCISE A: CONSTRUCTING THE NETWORK: SITE PREPARATION PROJECT
• EXERCISE B: ADDING DETAILS AND UPDATING THE NETWORK FOR AN ONGOING PROJECT

Glossaries