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Managing Project Delivery
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Managing Project Delivery

Maintaining Control and Achieving Success

Butterworth-Heinemann, 2009 подробнее...

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Editorial Rating

6

Qualities

  • Comprehensive
  • Analytical
  • Well Structured

Recommendation

Dr. Trish Melton and Dr. Peter Iles-Smith show you why managing and delivering a project involves much more than merely cranking out the design, and sticking to your charts and timetables. The work of the project has to be aimed at its core purpose, but keeping that at the forefront may well require revising the project in midstream. The information in this book is correct, copious and concise to the point of being terse, but unfortunately its presentation leaves some things unclear. Have you ever received a binder full of material at a seminar or class? Remember how the sheets made a great deal of sense at the time, but seemed a bit cloudier when you referred to them a year later? This book reads a lot like the material in such binders, with tons of bullet-point lists, charts and diagrams, but not enough prose to create a flow of ideas from one piece of information to the other. The accompanying online templates may mitigate this effect. Still, if you are new to project management, you may be a bit overwhelmed. getAbstract recommends this solid book to experienced project managers who will be well-equipped to handle this complex material with little difficulty and to get a great deal of utility from it.

Take-Aways

  • Controlling project delivery will help you limit the chaos most projects experience.
  • Projects that work together should be managed in programs. Programs that draw on the same resources should be managed as a portfolio.
  • Excellent project managers often get promoted to manage programs and portfolios.

About the Authors

Dr. Trish Melton, a Chartered Chemical Engineer, is managing director of a management consultancy. She has experience in the chemical, pharmaceutical and healthcare industries. Dr. Peter Iles-Smith is a project management and engineering consultant in the oil, gas, chemical and pharmaceutical industries.


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