What Enables Project Success
Lessons from Aid Relief Projects
Published on 1. June 2011
151 pages
978-1-62825-313-9 (ISBN)
Description
What Enables Project Success reports on cutting-edge project management research and is academically a work that many practitioners- particularly those who reflect on project management practice and are open to alternative ways of seeing their world- will find pragmatic and useful.
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English
Place of publication
Chicago
United States
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Windows
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3,87 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-62825-313-9 (9781628253139)
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Project Management Institute
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Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- 1.1. Chapter Introduction
- 1.2. The Purpose of Projects
- 1.3. The Context of this Book
- 1.4. The Structure of this Book
- 1.5. Chapter Summary
- Chapter 2. Literature Review
- 2.1. Chapter Introduction
- 2.2. Project Types
- 2.3. Success Factors and Success Processes-Antecedents
- 2.4. Project to Program Management-Front-End Importance
- 2.5. Rethinking Project Management
- 2.6. Aid Project Management Approaches and Techniques
- 2.6.1. LogFrame
- 2.6.2. Results-Based Management-Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E)
- 2.6.3. Subsection Summary
- 2.7. Leadership Issues
- 2.7.1. Leading in Complex Situations and Environments
- 2.7.2. Leadership Style
- 2.8. Chapter Summary
- Chapter 3. Research Methodology
- 3.1. Chapter Introduction
- 3.2. Philosophical Stance, Ontology, and Epistemology
- 3.2.1. Philosophical Stance
- 3.2.2. Ontological Stance and Operating Paradigm
- 3.2.3. Epistemological Stance
- 3.2.4. Subsection Summary
- 3.3. Research Approach Options and Decisions
- 3.3.1. Positivist Approaches
- 3.3.2. Interpretist Approaches
- 3.3.3. A Pragmatic Action Learning Approach
- 3.3.4. Research Methodology
- 3.3.5. Validation of Action Learning Outcomes
- 3.4. Chapter Summary
- Chapter 4. Research Undertaken
- 4.1. Chapter Introduction
- 4.2. The Adopted Research Approach in Detail
- 4.3. Action Learning Cycle One
- 4.3.1. Action Research Cycle 1-The Plan Process
- 4.3.2. Action Research Cycle 1-The Act-Observe Process
- 4.3.3. Action Research Cycle 1-The Reflect Process
- 4.4. Action Learning Cycle Two
- 4.4.1. Action Research Cycle 2-The Plan Process
- 4.4.2. Action Research Cycle 2-The Act-Observe Process
- 4.4.3. Action Research Cycle 2-The Reflect Process
- 4.5. Action Learning Cycle Three
- 4.5.1. Action Research Cycle 3-The Plan Process
- 4.5.2. Action Research Cycle 3-The Act-Observe Process
- 4.5.3. Action Research Cycle 3-The Reflect Process
- 4.5.4. Action Research Cycle 3-Postscript Evaluation
- 4.6. Chapter Summary
- Chapter 5. Findings and Final Model Summary
- 5.1. Chapter Introduction
- 5.2. Summarizing the Contribution of this Book
- 5.2.1. The Philosophical Contribution of this Book
- 5.2.2. The Project Front-End Focus of this Book
- 5.2.3. The Research Methods Focus
- 5.2.4. Contribution to Application of SSM
- 5.2.5. Contribution to Reflective Practice
- 5.2.6. Contribution to Project Management Theory-The Antecedents of Project Management Best Practice
- 5.2.7. Contribution to Project Management Research
- 5.3. Chapter Summary
- Chapter 6. Conclusions
- 6.1. Chapter Introduction
- 6.2. Implications of the Research Reported upon in the Book
- 6.2.1. Impact and Implications for Project Management Practice
- 6.2.2. Impact and Implications for Project Management Scholarship
- 6.3. Concluding Comments
- 6.3.1. Practice and Scholarship Contributions Made
- 6.3.2. Future Directions
- 6.4. Chapter Summary
- References
- Appendix 1-Abbreviations
- Author Bios
