Author: Kenneth Allinson AADipl RIBA MAPM
Publisher: Architectural Pre
Keywords: design, management, project, architect, getting, guide
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 1998-03-03
List price: $46.95
ISBN-10: 0750626232
ISBN-13: 9780750626231

There was military project management. There was construction project management. Then there was business project management, a tool described as ’the wave of the future’. Where are architects in all this, professionals whose work has always been project-driven? There is design management in engineering, product design, graphics, packaging, management theory and even in politics. Construction consultants talk about managing design. When are architects going to become committed to managing design?Getting There by Design adopts an architect’s view to design and project manageme

Author: Jack J. Phillips PhD in Human Resource Management.
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinema
Keywords: project, management, human, performance, improving, success, scorecard, measuring, solutions
Number of Pages: 353
Published: 2002-05-13
List price: $63.95
ISBN-10: 0750674490
ISBN-13: 9780750674492

Return on Investment (ROI) remains one of the most challenging and intriguing issues facing human resource development and performance improvement professionals. Drawing on their expertise in developing and implementing ROI programs in human performance and training, Jack J. Phillips, Ph.D., Timothy W. Bothell and G. Lynn Snead demonstrate how you can effectively apply ROI to project management.Today, almost every industry requires employees to manage multiple projects with competing priorities, critical deadlines, and unexpected interruptions-rendering everyone a project manager in some respe

Author: Griff Boyle
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Keywords: management, project, design
Number of Pages: 182
Published: 2003-08
List price: $120.00
ISBN-10: 0754618315
ISBN-13: 9780754618317

This is a guide to contracting and working with designers, and managing design projects proactively through to successful completion. The book provides guidance for clients on simultaneously optimizing the business outcome and the creative opportunity of a design project by getting the best from a design project team through leadership, team building, mutual understanding and good communication. It also gives professional guidance to design and architecture students, and can help design consultants to ensure that they and their clients are doing everything right. The text takes you through the

Authors:Harold Kerzner, Frank P. Saladis, International
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: project, management, series, wiley, iil, value, driven
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2009-08-17
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0470500808
ISBN-13: 9780470500804

In the traditional view of project management, if a project manager completed a project and had adhered to the triple constraints of time, cost, and performance, the project was considered a success. Today, in the eyes of the customer and the parent or sponsoring company, if a completed project did not deliver its anticipated value, it would be seen as a failure. Today’s changing economic climate, marked by an increasingly competitive global environment, is driving project managers to become more business oriented. Projects must now be viewed from a strategic perspective within the conte

Author: Gerard M. Hill
Publisher: Auerbach Publications
Keywords: project, management, international, series, esi, handbook, office, complete, second
Number of Pages: 752
Published: 2007-08-22
List price: $89.95
ISBN-10: 1420046802
ISBN-13: 9781420046809

The Complete Project Management Office Handbook, Second Edition identifies the PMO as the essential business integrator of the people, processes, and tools that manage or influence project performance. This book details how the PMO applies professional project management practices and successfully integrates business interests with project goals— regardless of whether the scope of the PMO is limited to managing a handful of specific projects or expanded to oversee the total practice of project management within the organization. The book first considers the five stages of PMO capability,

Author: International Institute for Learning Harold Kerzn
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: management, project, wiley, series, iil, managers, functional, need
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2009-09-08
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0470525479
ISBN-13: 9780470525470

Discover how functional managers can apply the Kerzner Approach® to project management As a functional manager today, you need to become more involved in project management. That doesn’t mean you need to become a project manager, but rather you need to know how to perform specific project-related tasks, work with project team members, understand each other’s priorities and problems, and resolve issues jointly. Now here’s the book that gives you everything you need to know about your role in project management clearly and succinctly. Based on principles set forth in the bests

Author: Kenneth R. Bainey
Publisher: Artech House Publisher
Keywords: project, management, house, library, artech, centric, model, integrated, approach
Number of Pages: 502
Published: 2004-04-01
List price: $95.00
ISBN-10: 1580538282
ISBN-13: 9781580538282

A long overdue book for today’s IT professionals, this unique resource offers you a practical, model-centric approach to integrated IT project management that supports state-of-the-art software development. A valuable and topical reference, the book enables you to: understand issues that relate to project management problems and the roles and responsibilities involved in managing and delivering multiple IT projects; develop an appreciation for project management best practices; and improve internal and external communications by applying simple, adaptable and consistent processes based on a m