1st Edition

Project Management A-Z: A Compendium of Project Management Techniques and How to Use Them A Compendium of Project Management Techniques and How to Use Them

By Alan Wren Copyright 2003
436 Pages
by Routledge

436 Pages
by Routledge

This title was first published in 2003. What does project authorization involve and how should you seek it? What is earned value and how are the calculations made? How do you select the appropriate method for handing over a project and what are the pitfalls associated with the options you can choose from? "The Project Management A-Z" provides you with the answer to these questions and more in an... Read more
Introduction; Glossary of Common Project Management Terms; A–Z; Approval; Authorization; Back-scheduling; Baselines and Baselining; Benefits; Budget Control; Budgets for Project Work; Business Case; Business Case Review; Champion; Change Control; Closing a Project; Communications Plan; Constraints; Contract Management; Controlling Against the Schedule; Critical Success Factors; Decisions in Projects; Earned Value Analysis; Estimating; Exceptions (and Management By); Feasibility Study; Filing and Document Management in Projects; Handover Options; Impact Analysis; Investment Appraisal for Projects; Issue Management; Lessons Learned; Matrix Management; Milestones and Milestone Plans; Network Analysis and the Critical Path; Objective(s); Planning Checklist; Post-project Review; Procurement; Programme or Project?; Project; Project and Stage Plans; Project Health Checks; Project Life Cycle; Project Office; Project Opportunities; Project Strategy; Quality in Project Work; Quality Reviews and Product Descriptions; Reports in Projects and Programmes; Request for Change; Responsibility Matrix; Risk Management; Scheduling; Scope; Sensitivity Analysis; Small Project; Sponsor; Stage or Phase; Stages – Start and End Procedures; Stakeholders – Identification and Communication; Starting a Project; Statement of Work; Steering Group; Task Checklist; Terms of Reference; Tolerance; Tranche (of a Programme); Tuning or Scaling a Project; Two-level Planning; Web Projects; Work Breakdown Structure; Work Distribution Model; Work Package; Zero Tolerance

Biography

Alan Wren