Practice of Project Management

A Strategic Guide to the Business-focused Approach
1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-0-7494-4536-2
Verlag: Kogan Page Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 368 Seiten, Format (B × H): 190 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 688 g

Traditional project management has tended to focus primarily on the processes of managing projects to successful completion. To manage projects from their inception through to actual delivery of the business-enabling objectives, a different project management approach is needed. Project management needs to become part of the business.

This book addresses the concepts and issues of business project management. It aims to assist organisations in making the shift from a narrow, strong, technical focus on project management to a broader, more business-oriented focus. The Practice of Project Management introduces three basic concepts which underpin the philosophy of the business-oriented approach: Business Focused Project Management (BFPM) which takes an organisation-wide view; The Wrappers Model and Objective Directed Project Management (ODPM) both of which provide the philosophies, processes, concepts, and tools used to enable BFPM.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Frigenti, Enzo

Comninos, Dennis

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Unternehmensorganisation & Entwicklungsstrategien
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Projektmanagement

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter - 00: Introduction; Section - ONE: The Essential Building Blocks; Chapter - 01: Projects and project management; Chapter - 02: The context of project management; Section - TWO: Focusing Projects on the Business; Chapter - 03: Projects and strategic linkages; Chapter - 04: The WrappersT model; Chapter - 05: Implementing Business Focused Project Management; Section - THREE: Objective Directed Project Management (ODPM); Chapter - 06: Introduction to ODPM; Chapter - 07: The project initiation phase; Chapter - 08: The project definition phase; Chapter - 09: The project planning phase; Chapter - 10: The project execution phase; Chapter - 11: The project close-out phase

Über Autor(innen)

Frigenti, Enzo
Enzo Frigenti is Director of Programme and Project Management for the rbz Group and co-founder of Denzo Management Systems (South Africa). As a teaching fellow, he lectures in management by project at the Massey University Graduate School of Business and Victoria University Graduate School of Business and Government Management. Enzo consults to government and private-sector organizations and delivers training courses to industry in programme management strategies, business driven IT projects, methodologies, and benefits realization. He is based in Wellington, New Zealand.

Comninos, Dennis
Dennis Comninos is Managing Director of Mercuri Systems and Training (Pty) Ltd. and co-founder of Denzo Management Systems cc. He is also the Managing Director of Quanto Strategies (Pty) Ltd. and is on the boards of a number of other companies. All the companies are South African-based, and provide strategy, business, human capital and project management training, consultancy, products and services internationally.

He lectures in project management at various tertiary institutions and consults to many organizations in the areas of strategic, business and project management. He is also a member of the South African Project Management Standards Generating Body (PM SGB). Dennis lives in South Africa with his wife and children.

Enzo Frigenti is managing director of Programme Project Management in New Zealand. Dennis Comninos is based in South Africa and is managing director of Mercuri Systems and Training Ltd, He is also the managing director of X-Pert Academy. Both Enzo and Dennis lecture on project management in universities in New Zealand and South Africa.