Creating an Environment for Successful Projects
The Quest to Manage Project Management
Jossey-Bass (Publisher)
Published on 8. August 1997
Book
Paperback/Softback
272 pages
978-0-7879-0359-6 (ISBN)
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Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
John Wiley & Sons Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 243 mm
Width: 184 mm
Weight
657 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7879-0359-6 (9780787903596)
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Robert J. Graham | Randall L. Englund
Creating an Environment for Successful Projects
Book
01/2004
2nd Edition
Jossey-Bass
€81.90
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Persons
ROBERT J. GRAHAM is an indepAndent management consultant and senior associate with the Strategic Management Group. He is on the adjunct faculty at the University of Pennsylvania and is associate professor of the Project Management Unit at Henley Management College in Henley, England and the author of Project Management As If People Mattered. RANDALL L. ENGLUND is a project manager at Hewlett-Packard Company and a consultant on the Project Management Initiative team that provides corporate-wide leadership for the continuous improvement of project management. He is a member of the Project Management Institute and is on the Board of Directors for the Product Development and Management Association.
Content
Leading the Change to a Project-Based Organization. Giving Projects a Strategic Emphasis. How Upper Managers Influence Project Success. Developing and Supporting Core Teams for Project Success. Organizing the Project Management Effort. Developing the Project Management Information Systems. Selecting and Developingthe Project Manager. Developing a Project Management Learning Organization. Hewlett-Packard's Project Management Initiative. Creating an Environment for Successful Projects in Your Organization.