Create a project management environment: Manage the exploration of project management

Author: (USA) Robert J. Graham
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Publish Date: 2005-09-01
Features: If you are a senior manager, through this book, you can learn how to support projects more effectively and make them easier to succeed. If you are a project manager, through this book, you can learn how to persuade your superiors to support your projects and achieve success. This series is edited by Professor Rodney Turner, Chairman of the International Project Management Association, translated by a team of project management experts, and meticulously designed to meet the practical needs of Chinese project managers. It includes both the most authoritative project management textbooks and tools from the West and the best-selling practical guidance manuals. It provides readers with a comprehensive knowledge framework for project management and effective, practical tools and methods. It helps project managers enhance their capabilities, scientifically manage project timelines, complete tasks within budget, and ensure project quality. This book is a work that explains from an organizational perspective how to support and effectively apply project management practices. It is co-authored by Robert J. Graham, an independent management consultant and senior partner at Strategic Management Group, and Randel L. Ingraham, a HP project manager with extensive project management experience. Although there are many books on project management, the greatest feature of this book is its approach from an organizational level, telling you how to develop project management into an organizational practice. Some books will tell you what effective purpose management practices are, while this book, in addition to that, combines the success and failure cases of many world-class companies to elaborate on how to create an environment in an organization to apply these effective project management practices. Another feature of this book is providing senior managers with a quick guide on how to manage project management at the end of each chapter. This book is primarily aimed at senior managers and project managers in organizations. It is concise and easy to understand, combining vivid cases to provide a set of world-class companies-tested, effective methods and practices for supporting project management.