Project Management Institute
Author
Publisher
Project Management Institute
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Managing Change in Organizations: A Practice Guide is unique in that it integrates two traditionally disparate world views on managing change: organizational development/human resources and portfolio/program/project management. By bringing these together, professionals from both worlds can use project management approaches to effectively create and manage change. This practice guide begins by providing the reader with a framework for creating organizational...
Author
Publisher
Project Management Institute
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Practice Standard for Scheduling Third Edition provides the latest thinking regarding good and accepted practices in the area of scheduling for a project. This updated practice standard expounds on the information contained in Section 6 on Project Schedule Management of the PMBOK℗ʼ Guide . In this new edition, you will learn to identify the elements of a good schedule model, its purpose, use, and benefits. You will also discover what is required...
Publisher
Project Management Institute
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Earned value management (EVM) is a management methodology for integrating scope, schedule, and resources; objectively measuring project performance and progress; and forecasting project outcome. It is considered by many to be one of the most effective performance measurement and feedback tools for managing projects. The Standard for Earned Value Management builds on the concepts for EVM described in the Practice Standard for Earned Value Management...
Publisher
Project Management Institute
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) serves as a guide for defining work as it relates to a specific project's objectives. This book supplies project managers and team members with direction for the preliminary development and the implementation of the WBS. Consistent with A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide)-Sixth Edition, the WBS Practice Standard presents a standard application of the WBS as a project management tool....
Publisher
Project Management Institute
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"This is an update and expansion upon PMI's popular reference, The Practice Standard for Project Risk Management. Risk Management addresses the fact that certain events or conditions may occur with impacts on project, program, and portfolio objectives. This standard will: identify the core principles for risk management; describe the fundamentals of risk management and the environment within which it is carried out; define the risk management life...
Publisher
Project Management Institute
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"The Standard for Program Management - Fourth Edition differs from prior editions by focusing on the principles of good program management. Program activities have been realigned to program lifecycle phases rather than topics, and the first section was expanded to address the key roles of program manager, program sponsor and program management office. It has also been updated to better align with PMI's Governance of Portfolios, Programs, and Projects:...
Publisher
Project Management Institute
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In this newest edition, PMI presents straightforward questions and answers to the most common questions about project management, the project management framework, and the knowledge areas contained within the PMBOK® Guide - Fifth Edition. This handy reference will help project managers and students enhance their knowledge in specific areas and test themselves on issues that are essential to successful project management.
Author
Publisher
Project Management Institute
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Project Management Implementation as Management Innovation: A Closer Look investigates the processes involved in implementing one particular type of management innovation—project management—and how these innovations must evolve and be modified in order to deliver value. The book was written by three internationally recognized project management researchers/practitioners. Their extensive experience in the classroom and in the field shows through...
Author
Publisher
Project Management Institute
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
In Choosing Appropriate Project Managers, the authors set out to challenge two commonly held and related views found in the project management community: Project Manager as a tool: The project manager is simply a facilitator for the project management process and that implementing the right systems and procedures are more important than any individual project managerProject management is universal: Once an individual has acquired the skills of project...
Author
Publisher
Project Management Institute
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Until now, there has only been a shallow understanding of how the leadership actions of project managers interact with ethics and social responsibility. Empirical research into this subject has been sparse. Responsible Leadership, by Nicholas Clarke, Alessia D'Amato, Malcolm Higgs, and Ramesh Vahidi is the first study to investigate how the relationships among managers, team members, and other stakeholders can bring about personal and ethical conflicts...
Author
Publisher
Project Management Institute
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
In Learning For Success, authors Peter Storm, Chantal Savelsbergh and Ben Kuipers contend that most projects have two different but complementary aims: to perform and to learn. Learning helps the performance of the current project and of future projects. It works in the reverse also: good performance stimulates the desire to become even better, which leads to discovering how to do it. In other words, good performance drives the desire to learn. How...
Publisher
Project Management Institute
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In this newest edition, PMI presents straightforward questions and answers to the most common questions about project management, the project management framework, and the knowledge areas contained within the PMBOK® Guide - Fifth Edition . This handy reference will help project managers and students enhance their knowledge in specific areas and test themselves on issues that are essential to successful project management.
Publisher
Project Management Institute
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Project Management Circa 2025 provides the basics about how project management is used in the present, and how organizations will create a new state-of-the-art for project management. As readers learn what the future of project management might be, they will also see the likely impact on their own organizations, now and in the future.
Author
Publisher
Project Management Institute
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Situational Sponsorship of Projects and Programs: An Empirical Review is a collection of academic studies related to the formal and informal aspects of the sponsorship role. These studies aim to clarify the following:Define the roles and responsibilities of the sponsor within corporate and project governance frameworksIdentify the characteristics of effective performance of the sponsor role.