| Description |
1 online resource (88 pages) |
| Summary |
Apply today's best practices for managing information, processes and people to maximize success within the constraints of project cost, scope and schedule. Benefit from the most effective real-world methods and new tools, such as resource breakdown structures and new treatment of optimum duration, earned value, and integration. Plus, you'll explore a conceptual approach that will help you integrate the most crucial element for project success: people. |
| Contents |
Intro; Title Page; Copyright; About the Author; Table of Contents; Preface; CHAPTER 1 Introduction to the Calculus of Integration; Historical Overview; A Specific Yet General Concept; Project Management As Integration Management; CHAPTER 2 Integration through Shared Information; Data, Information, and Knowledge; Integration within a Project, a Program, a Company; Three Possible Paths to Integration; What Makes a Project Large?; Presenting Information; CHAPTER 3 Project Plan Development; Pre-Project: The Resource Breakdown Structure; Initial Focus on Integrating Resources, Costs, and Schedule. |
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Integration Begins at Project ConceptionA Communications Plan As a Key Integration Tool; Deliverable Milestones; A Deliverable WBS Anchors Integration; The Minimum Effort and the Optimum Duration; A Bottom-Up Integration: Map the DWBS onto the RBS; Managing a Network of Elements; A Schedule from the DWBS and the Network Diagram; Planning for Monitoring, Evaluation, and Control; Understanding Good Measurements; Implementing the Cycle; Audits; The Early Audit Catches the Worm; A New Type of Audit?; The Contract As an Integrating Mechanism; CHAPTER 4 Execution and Closeout; Earned-Value Analysis. |
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Understanding Earned Value: Evolving the Notation Beyond PMBOK®Possibilities in Predictions; The Example of the Widgets; Project Closeout and a Global Transition to EVM; CHAPTER 5 Integrating Personnel and Other Interested Parties; â#x80;#x9C;Universals of Cultureâ#x80;#x9D;; The Project Team; Encouraging Diverse Teams and Healthy Organizations; Possible Problems; Soften Interfaces; CHAPTER 6 Integration and Integrity; Integrity: A Foundation for Integration; Honesty and Professional Responsibility; Sharing Information Means Sharing Power; Integration and Project Success; Bibliography and Notes; Index. |
| Subject |
Project management.
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Gestion de projet. |
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Project management |
| ISBN |
9781567264524 |
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1567264522 |
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1523096756 |
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9781523096756 |
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