Overview

This volume offers practical steps to creating a Structured Project Management (SPM) system in your organization. Based on the ten steps in Fergus O'Connell's previous book, ""How To Run Successful Projects"", it expands on that concept to offer a solution to keeping today's high-tech companies competitive, on budget, and on schedule. Using SPM company-wide, you create a system wherein unforeseen challenges or problems occur on a localized level where they do not affect the system-wide enterprise. All project tasks are described as being both unique and part of a larger scheme, giving definition and a sense of importance to individuals, departments, divisions, and an entire company. From the individual on up, smaller projects are completed and compiled, layer upon layer, until your whole organization is producing at peak levels.

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Author:   Fergus O'Connell
Publisher:   Artech House Publishers
Imprint:   Artech House Publishers
Edition:   Unabridged edition
Dimensions:   Width: 18.40cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.00cm
Weight:   0.862kg
ISBN:  

9781580530101

ISBN 10:   1580530109
Pages:   316
Publication Date:   31 October 1999
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Level 1 - Fixing Projects. The Ten Steps. Scoping Projects and Making Plans. Running Projects. Assessing Project Plans. Assessing Projects. Rescuing Projects. Auditing Completed Projects. Running Multiple Projects. Building a Historical Database. Analyzing Project Management Processes. Managing Subcontractors. Level 2 - iSPMiO. The Organization-Wide Status Report. Project Management Performance Model. Figuring Out Where You Are. Start Making it Better. Case Studies. The Lazy Manager's Weekly Routine. Program for a Project-Based Organization. Level 3 - Treating Your Organization as a Project. Building the Plan. Executing the Plan. Level 4 - So Why do Things go Wrong? Why do Projects go Wrong? Why do Organizations go Wrong?

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Fergus O'Connell graduated with a First in Mathematical Physics from University College Cork. With 20 years in the computer industry, 17 spent in project management roles, Fergus O'Connell became a best-selling author with his book How to Run Successful Projects. Since founding his own management consulting company in 1992, he has taught thousands of managers in his unique seminars and worked with major corporations around the world.

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