Project Health Assessment
Published on 24. October 2014
382 pages
978-1-4822-5283-5 (ISBN)
Description
Project managers, sponsors, team members, and involved stakeholders know when things aren't going well. A frequent first indication is a missing or errant process. Project Health Assessment presents an innovative approach for assessing project processes through a set of ten critical success factors based on PMI's PMBOK Guide knowledge areas. The fi
Reviews / Votes
"Too many projects fail, many for repeatable reasons. We need to work hard to resolve Cobb's Paradox (1995): 'We know why projects fail; we know how to prevent their failure - so why do they still fail?' The insights in this book provide a valuable framework to promote project health and optimize the chances of project success, both within specific projects and more widely in project-based organizations. Our projects are too important to be allowed to fail, and following Paul Royer's advice will help us to do better."-Dr. David Hillson, The Risk Doctor
"Often, people hear a project health assessment is to be conducted and believe it is an audit or a performance review. Paul Royer's, Project Health Assessment dispels this myth and explains how useful a health assessment is for anyone seeking ways to ensure project success. Covering the Project Management Institute's knowledge areas, Royer presents critical success factors for a health assessment and his own model, which one can adopt and use to further improvements in any aspect of a project."
-Ginger Levin, PhD, PMP, PgMP, OPM3 Certified Professional
"This book is a 'mind dump' if you will of more than fifteen years of practitioner experience in the area of project risk management specialized in assessing the projects' health. The specific recommendations in this book are intended for information technology project professionals. It provides practical advice regarding: (1) project management oversight and review, (2) what a project health assessment is, (3) how to tailor the specific project's objectives and organizational culture to optimize project's objectives, (4) critical success factor points, and (5) several customizable assessment templates to use."-Ovidiu Cretu, Ph.D., PE
"This book is an invaluable how-to resource and reference for those looking to expand their consulting capability, as well as those companies looking to perform self-assessments.
Using background information, examples, flowcharts, and templates, the book tells you step by step:
Why Project Health Assessments should be undertaken
What steps are necessary to complete one
How the steps need to be done, by giving insight on what things to look for and questions to ask
It makes an excellent addition to any Project Management Quality program."-Stephen W. Maas MPM, PMP
"Paul Royer has written a book that should be in every project manager's library. Paul has set down his extensive experience to provide a profound and pragmatic advice to help project managers make a thorough project health assessment. Paul shares his insights with great clarity in a book full of best practice advice. This is not just useful to the experienced project manager but to senior management who want to have a better understanding of the options they have to evaluate projects and take corrective actions to minimize risks."
-Rodolfo Siles, PMP, MScM, SCPM
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Philadelphia, PA
United States
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Inc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Project managers.
Illustrations
70 s/w Abbildungen, 80 s/w Tabellen
70 b/w images and 80 tables
File size
11,20 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-4822-5283-5 (9781482252835)
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Additional editions
Paul S. Royer, PMP
Project Health Assessment
Book
11/2014
1st Edition
Apple Academic Press Inc.
€78.17
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Person
Paul S. Royer is a senior project management consultant with specialties in project planning, external quality assurance and risk assessment, project recovery, and project management office administration and development. He was certified as a PMI Project Management Professional in 2001 and practices his trade in the Pacific Northwest.
Mr. Royer's professional career in information technology began in 1965 as an engineering student co-op trainee from UC Berkeley assigned to the Simulation Section of the Flight Research Center, NASA, Edwards Air Force Base, California. From that beginning and after a stint as a military policeman with the US Army, Paul continued in IT with two years at the Napa County Auditor-Controller, completed his BA at UCB, and worked twenty-six years with Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program in Northern California, ten years as a consultant at CIBER, four years leading his own firm Proactive Risk Management, and since 2011 as the project management administrator for the Washington State Health Benefit Exchange's Project Management Office.
Paul obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California at Berkeley, where he has also taught logical data modeling, relational database design, and structured analysis. He has also taught numerous project management classes while with Kaiser and CIBER and at the Community College of Bellevue, Washington. In addition, he is a published author of "Risk Management: The Undiscovered Dimension of Project Management," (2000, PMI Project Management Journal, 31 (1), March) and Project Risk Management: A Proactive Approach (2002, Vienna, VA: Management Concepts). He has also delivered the following presentations on various aspects of risk management: How Healthy Is Your Project (PMI Connections 2000 Proceedings, September 2000), How Healthy Is Your Program? (PMI New Jersey Chapter Annual Symposium, May 2001), and Risk Management and the "Small" Project (PMI P
Mr. Royer's professional career in information technology began in 1965 as an engineering student co-op trainee from UC Berkeley assigned to the Simulation Section of the Flight Research Center, NASA, Edwards Air Force Base, California. From that beginning and after a stint as a military policeman with the US Army, Paul continued in IT with two years at the Napa County Auditor-Controller, completed his BA at UCB, and worked twenty-six years with Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program in Northern California, ten years as a consultant at CIBER, four years leading his own firm Proactive Risk Management, and since 2011 as the project management administrator for the Washington State Health Benefit Exchange's Project Management Office.
Paul obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California at Berkeley, where he has also taught logical data modeling, relational database design, and structured analysis. He has also taught numerous project management classes while with Kaiser and CIBER and at the Community College of Bellevue, Washington. In addition, he is a published author of "Risk Management: The Undiscovered Dimension of Project Management," (2000, PMI Project Management Journal, 31 (1), March) and Project Risk Management: A Proactive Approach (2002, Vienna, VA: Management Concepts). He has also delivered the following presentations on various aspects of risk management: How Healthy Is Your Project (PMI Connections 2000 Proceedings, September 2000), How Healthy Is Your Program? (PMI New Jersey Chapter Annual Symposium, May 2001), and Risk Management and the "Small" Project (PMI P
Content
Introduction to Project Health Assessment. Project Health Assessment Process. Project Health Assessment Critical Success Factors. Stakeholder Management Assessment. Risk Management Assessment. Scope Management Assessment. Time Management Assessment. Cost Management Assessment. Communications Management Assessment. Quality Management Assessment. Human Resource Management Assessment. Procurement Management Assessment. Integration Management Assessment. Executing a Project Health Assessment.
