Review
"Well argued and authoritative." -- The Work Foundation
Book Description
Product Description
Goal Directed Project Management (GDPM) is a unique methodology that has been developed and refined by the authors over a period of more than 20 years. In this time, organizations all over the world have adopted it as a standard approach.
The central focus of GDPM is to develop understanding, commitment and involvement while managing successful and lasting change. Throughout the text, the authors emphasise the need for a 'PSO' (People, System and Organization) perspective that goes beyond the technical aspects dealt with by most project management literature, enhancing and prolonging the life of a project by allowing the people and organization involved to develop simultaneously with the system. Goal Directed Project Management gives detailed and practical guidance on how to plan, organise and control these PSO projects effectively, presenting methods and tools that will increase significantly the probability of project success.
This newly updated fourth edition of Goal Directed Project Management addresses the financial control of projects in a new chapter, presenting a pragmatic approach - based on GDPM methods - to this aspect of project management. It includes guidelines to take you through setting up a project budget based on cost benefit analysis and shows how to report and control the running project using the milestone related budget.
About the Author
Erling S Andersen is professor of project management and information systems at the Norwegian School of Management BI, Oslo. He has written several books on project management, general management and computer-based information systems.
Kristoffer Grude is a former managing director and partner of Coopers & Lybrand Consulting, Norway. He now has his own business consultancy, Euroconsult.
Tor Haug is an independent consultant, specialising in IT strategies, re-engineering and project management.
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1 Introduction
Outline
About PSO projects
Goal Directed Project Management
2 Project characteristics
A unique task
Attainment of a specific result
Requires a variety of resources
Time constraints
Project management
3 Pitfalls in project management
Cracks in the foundation
Pitfalls in planning
Pitfalls in organizing
Pitfalls in controlling
Pitfalls in execution of project work
Avoiding pitfalls
4 Foundation of the project
Purpose and goals of project
Mission breakdown structure
Stakeholders and stakeholder analysis
Project mandate
Division of responsibility between base and project: the principle responsibility chart
Small example: Project 'excellent physical work environment'
5 Global planning -- milestone planning
Principles of project planning
Segmentation of project
Practical milestone planning
6 Global organizing -- milestone responsibility chart
Principles of project organization
Responsibility charts
Milestone responsibility chart -- responsibilities for achieving milestones
Time scheduling and resource estimation at global level
Uncertainties of the project
7 Detail planning and detail organization
Principles of project activity planning
Activity planning
8 Project control
What is control?
Principles of project control
Controlling activities
Controlling milestones
9 Quality in project work
Significance of project quality
Procedures to increase quality
Quality of planning documents
10 Project culture
A good project culture
Top management
Line management
Project owner
Steering committee
Project manager
Elected representatives
A projectivity programme
11 Goal Directed Project Management -- example and summary
Forms
IT support
Example project 'New possibilities in new premises'
Is the 'requirement specification' fulfilled?
Final comments
--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.