Create a project management environment (exploring project management)

Author: (USA) Graham, (USA) Ingraham, translated by Nie Gang, Liu Lixiang
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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, and organized by numerous project management experts for the practical needs of Chinese project managers. It includes both the most authoritative project management textbooks and tools from Europe and America, as well as 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 improve their capabilities, scientifically manage project timelines, complete tasks without exceeding budgets, 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 the Strategic Management Group, and Randel L. Ingraham, a HP project manager with extensive practical experience in project management. Although there are many books on project management, the greatest feature of this book is its focus on the organizational level, telling you how to develop project management into an organizational practice. Some books will tell you what effective purpose management practices are, but this book, in addition to that, combines the success and failure cases of many world-class companies to explain 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 that have been verified and proven effective methods and practices for supporting project management.