Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-349) and index.
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The new business environment and the need for a new project management -- Managing in the new business environment. Managing complexity : techniques for fashioning order out of chaos -- Engaging change : knowing when to embrace, accept, or challenge -- Managing risk : identifying, analyzing, and planning responses -- Satisfying customers : knowing who they are, what they want, and when they are right or wrong -- Defining requirements that bridge the customer-developer gap -- Tools for the new project management. Acquiring political skills and building influence -- Building teams with borrowed resources -- Selecting projects that will lead to success -- Estimating realistic costs, schedules, and specifications to ensure project success -- Scheduling projects with new tools : the time-boxed and critical chain scheduling techniques -- Outsourcing to control costs, focus on core work, and expand resources -- Integrating cost and schedule control to measure work performance -- Evaluating projects to maintain goals, strengthen accountability, and achieve objectives -- Understanding and using performance metrics : measuring the right stuff -- Establishing and maintaining a project support office to strengthen project management capabilities -- Carpe Diem : seize the day!
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Drawing on more than twenty-five years experience consulting and training on project management in companies such as NCR, AT & T, and 3M, J. Davidson Frame updates and expands what he introduced in the first edition of The New Project Management in 1994 - a set of core competencies for managerial success in a corporate climate where downsizing, outsourcing, and employee empowerment are a way of life. This new edition focuses on the hottest areas in project management today - augmenting and expanding the existing coverage of risk management and estimating, and including three all-new chapters on.