Effective Project Management: Traditional, Agile, Extreme, Hybrid, 8th Edition - Section 1

- Effective Project Management Traditional, Agile, Extreme, Hybrid
- About the Author
- About the Technical Editor
- Credits
- Acknowledgments
- WILEY END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT
- Preface
- Introduction
- Why I Wrote This Book
- AN OFFER YOU CAN'T REFUSE
- How Is This Book Organized?
- Unique Value Propositions
- The Rationale for This Organization
- OBSERVATION
- How to Use This Book
- Who Should Use This Book
- What's on the Website
- Putting It All Together
- EPM8e Logo
- UNIQUE VALUE PROPOSITIONS
- Defining a Project
- DEFINITION: PROJECT
- DEFINITION: BUSINESS‐FOCUSED PROJECT
- An Intuitive View of the Project Landscape
- Defining a Program
- Defining a Portfolio
- Understanding the Scope Triangle
- COMMENT ON THE SCOPE TRIANGLE
- The Importance of Classifying Projects
- The Contemporary Project Environment
- Discussion Questions
- UNIQUE VALUE PROPOSITION
- COMMENT ON THE SIX QUESTIONS
- Understanding the Fundamentals of Project Management
- DEFINITION: PROJECT MANAGEMENT
- Challenges to Effective Project Management
- Managing the Creeps
- What Are Requirements, Really?
- WORKING DEFINITION: REQUIREMENT
- Introducing Project Management Life Cycles
- DEFINITION: PROJECT MANAGEMENT LIFE CYCLE (PMLC)
- Choosing the Best‐Fit PMLC Model
- Discussion Questions
- CASE STUDY
- Definition of Strategic Project Management
- The Business Environment: A View from the Top
- CASE STUDY: ESTABLISHING A WORKFORCE AND BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CENTER (WBDC)
- CASE STUDY: ESTABLISHING A WORKFORCE AND BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CENTER (WBDC)
- CASE STUDY: ESTABLISHING A WORKFORCE AND BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CENTER (WBDC)
- CASE STUDY: ESTABLISHING A WORKFORCE AND BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CENTER
- Putting It All Together
- Discussion Questions
- UNIQUE VALUE PROPOSITION
- Overview
- The Complex Project Team
- Using the Co‐Manager Model
- Establishing Meaningful Client Involvement
- The Challenges to Meaningful Client Involvement
- COMMENT ON COLLABORATIVE TEAMS
- Challenges to Attaining and Sustaining Meaningful Client Involvement
- Discussion Questions
- UNIQUE VALUE PROPOSITION
- Overview of the 10 Project Management Knowledge Areas
- Overview of the Five Process Groups
- Mapping Knowledge Areas to Process Groups
- Discussion Questions
- UNIQUE VALUE PROPOSITION
- Using Tools, Templates, and Processes to Scope a Project
- Managing Client Expectations
- NOTE: WRITE THE POS?
- Discussion Questions
- UNIQUE VALUE PROPOSITION
- Using Tools, Templates, and Processes to Plan a Project
- The Importance of Planning
- Using Application Software Packages to Plan a Project
- Planning and Conducting Joint Project Planning Sessions
- DEFINITION: WORK BREAKDOWN STRUCTURE (WBS)
- Estimating
- WHAT IF THE SPECIFIC RESOURCE IS KNOWN?
- Constructing the Project Network Diagram
- Writing an Effective Project Proposal
- Gaining Approval to Launch the Project
- Discussion Questions
- CASE STUDY: PIZZA DELIVERED QUICKLY (PDQ)
- UNIQUE VALUE PROPOSITION
- Using the Tools, Templates, and Processes to Launch a Project
- Recruiting the Project Team
- CASE STUDY: PIZZA DELIVERED QUICKLY (PDQ)
- Developing a Team Deployment Strategy
- Conducting the Project Kick‐Off Meeting
- Establishing Team Operating Rules
- CASE STUDY: PIZZA DELIVERED QUICKLY (PDQ)
- Managing Scope Changes
- Managing Team Communications
- Assigning Resources
- Resource Leveling Strategies
- Finalizing the Project Schedule
- Writing Work Packages
- Discussion Questions
- UNIQUE VALUE PROPOSITION
- Using Tools, Templates, and Processes to Monitor and Control
- Establishing Your Progress Reporting System
- Applying Graphical Reporting Tools
- GENERAL COMMENT: EVA TERMINOLOGY
- Managing the Scope Bank
- Building and Maintaining the Issues Log
- Managing Project Status Meetings
- Defining a Problem Escalation Strategy
- Gaining Approval to Close the Project
- Discussion Questions
- UNIQUE VALUE PROPOSITIONS
- Using Tools, Templates, and Processes to Close a TPM Project
- Writing and Maintaining Client Acceptance Procedures
- Discussion Questions
- UNIQUE VALUE PROPOSITION
- What Is Complex Project Management?
- THE AGILE MANIFESTO
- What Is Lean Agile Project Management?
- Understanding the Complexity/Uncertainty Domain of Projects
- DEFINITION: NON‐VALUE‐ADDED WORK
- OBSERVATION
- Discussion Questions
- UNIQUE VALUE PROPOSITION
- Iterative Project Management Life Cycle
- Adapting and Integrating the APM Toolkit
- Discussion Questions
- CASE STUDY
- CASE STUDY: PIZZA DELIVERED QUICKLY (PDQ)
- UNIQUE VALUE PROPOSITION
- The Complex Project Landscape
- What Is Extreme Project Management?
- DEFINITION: EXTREME PMLC MODELS
- Using the Tools, Templates, and Processes for Maximum Extreme PMLC Model Effectiveness
- Using the Tools, Templates, and Processes for Maximum xPM and MPx Effectiveness
- Discussion Questions
- UNIQUE VALUE PROPOSITIONS
- What Is a Hybrid Project?
- DEFINITION: HYBRID PROJECT MANAGEMENT
- What Is a Hybrid Project Manager?
- Background of the Effective Complex Project Management (ECPM) Framework
- ADVICE
- NOTE ABOUT THE ECPM FRAMEWORK
- Discussion Questions
- UNIQUE VALUE PROPOSITIONS
- Linear PMLC Model
- Incremental PMLC Model
- Iterative PMLC Model
- COMMENT: AN INTERESTING APPLICATION OF SCRUM
- Adaptive PMLC Model
- Extreme PMLC Model
- GENERAL COMMENT
- Challenges to Project Set‐up and Execution
- Discussion Questions
- Hypothesis
- Synopsis
- The Need
- The Problem
- The Solution
- Linkages in the WBDC Model
- The Business Case for a WBDC
- Next Steps
- Putting It All Together
- Course Master File
- A Note on the Answer File for the Discussion Questions
- Additional Chapters

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