Ensure the success of your company's special projects Crisp execution of projects is critical to the survival of today's organizations. This practical book is filled with ideas and examples that will teach you how to build project management competence in your organization. --Lewis E. Platt, chairman, president and CEO, Hewlett-Packard Company Finally, a book that fills the void on how to develop project management as an organizational practice. Using the enviable processes already in place at Hewlett-Packard and other progressive companies as touchstones, Graham and Englund serve up solid, results-oriented advice on how upper management can create an environment that supports the success of special projects, especially the development of new products. Building on an incisive examination of the critical role upper-tier management plays in the overall success of projects, the authors show managers exactly what they must do to support the process and implement project management as an organization-wide directive. Packed with leading-edge, real-world examples, a sample project review and other tools, this book will help your organization make and sustain the cultural changes that encourage a project manager's best work.

Creating an Environment for Successful Projects: The Quest to Manage Project Management (Jossey-Bass Business & Management)

Business & Money

Graham, Robert J.

Englund, Randall L.

Management & Leadership

Jossey-Bass

Creating the Project Office is written for managers who are searching for ways to transform their organizations into more effective and efficient project-based workplaces. As this important book reveals, there is no more effective way to make that change than to create a project office tailored to the needs of the organization. While a project office model leads to better products from projects, it is also a vehicle for generating overall organizational change -- by transforming the organization from function-based to project-based. This model incorporates projects into the very fabric of the organizational strategy and revitalizes organizations, creates competitive advantage, and increases shareholder value.

Creating the Project Office: A Manager's Guide to Leading Organizational Change

Dinsmore, Paul C.

Economics

Since it was first published in 1997, Creating an Environment for Successful Projects has become a landmark work that shows how to develop project management as an organizational practice. This second edition offers solid, results-oriented advice on how upper management can create an environment that supports the success of special projects and the development of new products. The book also includes a wealth of examples from the authors' workshop participants and readers of the first edition who have successfully implemented these concepts within their organizations. New in the second edition: 
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<li>Ideas and practices about portfolio management to achieve greater overall success from a portfolio of projects</li> <li>Advice for helping project teams come together to become more effective</li> <li>Information for developing the chief project officer</li> <li>Suggestions for implementing project management information systems</li> <li>More descriptions about organizations and people who have used these principles to develop vastly improved environments</li> </ul>

Creating an Environment for Successful Projects, 2nd Edition

Jossey-Bass Inc Pub

Project Sponsorship—which includes case studies, checklists, and action plans—shows how project sponsors and project managers can develop the skills they need to manage successful projects. Randall L. Englund and Alfonso Bucero—experts in the field of project management—have written the definitive guide for educating all stakeholders in the nature of project sponsorship. They describe in detail the responsibilities of the project sponsor, from communications and liaison, selection and training, problem solving, mentoring, and feedback, to the review of project execution. The project sponsor and manager learn how to negotiate effectively with each other and the project team to achieve their commitments.

Project Sponsorship: Achieving Management Commitment for Project Success

Bucero, Alfonso

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Creating an Environment for Successful Projects: The Quest to Manage Project Management (Jossey-Bass Business & Management)

Creating the Project Office: A Manager's Guide to Leading Organizational Change

Creating an Environment for Successful Projects, 2nd Edition

Project Sponsorship: Achieving Management Commitment for Project Success