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Projects are hard. By definition, projects are about non-routine activities. Many of them are large and complex; they may involve many people, often from different backgrounds and increasingly with different languages and cultures. Amongst all of this, it is easy to get lost, to overlook important trends or to misunderstand each other. So projects fail."Graham Oakes' Project Reviews, Assurance and Governance" is about learning from your mistakes and understanding what's really going on with your projects. In order for reviews and assurance to provide you with this information and learning, you need to perform them effectively and that is the purpose of this book.The core of the book is built around a number of models of project review processes and governance, all derived from practice and interspersed with case studies drawn from practitioners, project management literature and from practices in other industry. The result is the blend of the conceptual and the practical needed to make your project assurance process sympathetic, relevant and rigorous for your organization and the range of projects and programmes which you undertake.
| ISBN | 056608807X | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | ISBN13 | 9780566088070
(What's this?) | | Pages | 180 | | Publisher | Gower Publishing Ltd | | Volumes | 001 | | Imprint | Gower Publishing Ltd | | Published in | Aldershot | | Format | Hardback | | Height (mm) | 244 | | Publication date | 28 Oct 2008 | | Width (mm) | 172 | | Library of Congress | HD69 | | Academic level | Professional / Scholarly | | DEWEY | 658.404 | |
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| | | List of Figures | | | | | | List of Tables | | | | Pt. I | | Introduction | | 1 | | Case Study | | Earthquakes in the Project Portfolio | | 3 | | Ch. 1 | | Project Success; Project Failure | | 9 | | Ch. 2 | | Project Reviews | | 23 | | Case Study | | Formal Gateways in the Public Sector | | 47 | | Pt. II | | Project Review Process | | 53 | | Ch. 3 | | The Review Process | | 55 | | Case Study | | Lesson from Problems in the Past | | 67 | | Ch. 4 | | Review Parameters | | 71 | | Case Study | | Post-project Reviews and Retrospectives | | 83 | | Ch. 5 | | Reviews and Organizational Learning | | 89 | | Case Study | | Weeding the Project Portfolio | | 119 | | Ch. 6 | | The Importance of Evidence | | 123 | | Case Study | | Assuring Fixed Price Implementations | | 153 | | Ch. 7 | | Logistics Matter | | 157 | | Case Study | | Programme Reviews in a Merged Environment | | 173 | | Pt. III | | Reviews and Governance | | 177 | | Ch. 8 | | Triggering Effective Action | | 181 | | Case Study | | Software Review and Inspection Techniques | | 201 | | Ch. 9 | | Gaps and Overlaps in Governance | | 205 | | Case Study | | Review Techniques in the Education Sector | | 213 | | Pt. IV | | Running an Assurance Team | | 217 | | Ch. 10 | | Organizational Issues | | 219 | | Case Study | | Assuring Quality in a Global Application Portfolio | | 241 | | | More... | | |
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