- Hardcover: 308 pages
- Publisher: Gower; illustrated edition edition (22 Nov 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0566087065
- ISBN-13: 978-0566087066
- Product Dimensions: 24.6 x 17.5 x 2.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 771,801 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Ongoing research shows that whilst 90 per cent of large companies are conducting global projects to take advantage of distributed skills, around-the-clock operations and virtual team environments, less than one third of them have effective, established practices to help project managers and team members working over a distance. As a consequence, most organizations struggle to reach the required levels of quality and effectiveness from these projects because their methods and practices are not adapted to a global multi-cultural environment, where most communication is in writing and asynchronous. "Global Project Management" describes how to adapt your organization and your projects to thrive in this environment.The book goes beyond the recommendations on collaborative tools, to suggest the development of best practices on cross-cultural team management and global communication, recommend organizational changes and project structures, and propose alternatives for the implementation of the new practices and methods.The text is filled with real-life examples and techniques and illustrates how to apply the recommendations as part of the successful management of any global project.
About the Author
Jean Binder is a certified project manager (PMP[registered]) and has more than 20 years of experience working in project environments, most of them living abroad and communicating in multi-cultural and multi-language environments. He has particular experience of managing global projects, having implemented collaborative tools and techniques in a number of global organizations. The Global Project Management Framework that served as a basis for this book was developed by the author at the Heriot Watt University in Edinburgh.
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There are many studies analysing and defining the challenges of cross-cultural management, most of them based on Geert Hofstede's and Fons Trompenaars' cultural dimensions. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
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Format:Hardcover
This book is costly shipped to Australia and when you first look at it, feel it and pick it up the value equation does not hold to well in your favor.
I am using this book for a Master's degree in Project Management. It is only when you start to read it do you realize what and excellent subject matter expert it is.
Definitely recommend this book.
I am using this book for a Master's degree in Project Management. It is only when you start to read it do you realize what and excellent subject matter expert it is.
Definitely recommend this book.
Format:Hardcover
In a global world, software development projects concern more and more people working in various locations or coming from different organizations and culture. Managing these projects requires thinking beyond the traditional project management techniques to integrate these additional global dimensions and deal with the new issues that they create. This book helps project managers to think about this situation by proposing a detailed framework dealing with the team, communication, organization, tools and techniques dimensions of global projects. Every chapter has a good balance between conceptual material and real life examples. Many checklists and models are proposed to help assessing the global aspects of specific situations. The author invites also the reader to think how the current topic is handled in his organization. Finally, the book provides many pointers to additional literature that could help a reader to get more knowledge on a particular topic.
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Useful help to manage global projects
15 May 2009
Format:Hardcover
In a global world, software development projects concern more and more people working in various locations or coming from different organizations and culture. Managing these projects requires thinking beyond the traditional project management techniques to integrate these additional global dimensions and deal with the new issues that they create. This book helps project managers to think about this situation by proposing a detailed framework dealing with the team, communication, organization, tools and techniques dimensions of global projects. Every chapter has a good balance between conceptual material and real life examples. Many checklists and models are proposed to help assessing the global aspects of specific situations. The author invites also the reader to think how the current topic is handled in his organization. Finally, the book provides many pointers to additional literature that could help a reader to get more knowledge on a particular topic.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Great Global Project Management bible!
21 Mar 2009
Format:Hardcover
Jean Binder engages the fundamental issues Project Manager's encounter when your office walls rest on the 4-corners of the globe. This is international Project Management at its best, reining in complex/massive issues in a manner that is reliable, predicable and business process as it should be.
This is a how-to book illustrating what works from applied time-honored practices to forward-thinking advances.
It is no wonder that this book won Project Management Institute's (PMI) "David Cleland Project Management Literature Award 2008". Read more by visiting the website highlighting this growing topic and guidebook:
http://www.globalprojectmanagement.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=50&Itemid=63.
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This is a how-to book illustrating what works from applied time-honored practices to forward-thinking advances.
It is no wonder that this book won Project Management Institute's (PMI) "David Cleland Project Management Literature Award 2008". Read more by visiting the website highlighting this growing topic and guidebook:
http://www.globalprojectmanagement.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=50&Itemid=63.
[...]
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