With the acceleration of technology and information, projects are becoming more complex, costly, and time-constrained -- and every year thousands of them get cancelled or end up costing significantly more than their original projections. Project and program managers are sorely in need of tools to help them avoid failure.
Blueprint for Project Recovery provides readers with a proven, proceduralized methodology for identifying where and how projects went off course, and a defined plan of action to bring them back on track. Based on years of research and including a CD-ROM packed with all the forms, checklists and resources used in the text, the book gives readers an entire process for both evaluating and repairing projects gone off course, and guidance for planning them more effectively in the first place. The book is designed as an easy reference troubleshooting guide that readers can use immediately to solve all their project difficulties.
Every project or program has exigencies that can cause problems with cost, schedule, or outcome. Blueprint for Project Recovery! is the ultimate
Author(s): Ronald B. Cagle
Publisher: AMACOM
Year: 2003
Language: English
Commentary: 32758
Pages: 306
Blueprint for
PROJECT
RECOVERY—
A Project
Management Guide......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
TABLE OF CONTENTS......Page 6
FIGURES......Page 10
TABLES......Page 12
PREFACE......Page 14
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 18
CHAPTER 1
GETTING STARTED......Page 22
1.1 General......Page 24
1.3 The Search Methodology......Page 28
2.2 Programmatic Performance Checklist......Page 30
2.3 Programmatic Explanations......Page 31
3.2 Technical Performance Checklist......Page 59
3.3 Technical Explanations......Page 62
4.2 Programmatic Recovery Checklist......Page 77
4.3 Programmatic Recovery Cause Descriptions......Page 79
5.2 Technical Search Tables......Page 130
5.3 Technical Recovery Cause Descriptions......Page 133
CHAPTER 6
EXPANDING THE CAUSE BASE FOR YOUR PROJECT......Page 177
6.1 General......Page 178
6.2 Brainstorming......Page 179
6.3 Researching Appropriate Benchmarks......Page 181
6.4.1 STANDARD PROCESSES......Page 182
6.4.4 PROJECT/ PROGRAM PROCESSES......Page 183
7.2 Ordering Techniques......Page 186
7.2.1 85: 15 RULE......Page 187
7.2.2 CAUSE AND EFFECT DIAGRAM......Page 188
7.2.3 AFFINITY DIAGRAMS......Page 192
7.2.4 RELATIONSHIP DIAGRAMS......Page 194
7.3 Interrelationships of Causes......Page 197
8.1 General......Page 198
8.2.1 PARETO ANALYSIS......Page 199
8.2.2 FORCE FIELD ANALYSIS......Page 201
8.2.3 FAILURE MODE EFFECT ANALYSIS ( FMEA)......Page 203
8.2.4 MONTE CARLO SIMULATION......Page 205
8.3 Eliminating Holes and Overlaps......Page 207
8.4 Choosing the Causes......Page 208
9.2 Implementation Techniques......Page 209
9.2.2 CREATING ¡®¡® ON- RAMPS¡¯¡¯......Page 210
9.3 Selecting Your Technique......Page 211
10.1 General......Page 212
10.2.1 QUANTUM IMPROVEMENT......Page 213
10.2.2 DOCUMENTATION......Page 214
10.3 Data Trail......Page 216
10.4 Modifying Methods......Page 217
11.1 General......Page 218
11.4 Using the Attachments......Page 219
SUMMARY......Page 220
GLOSSARY......Page 224
ATTACHMENTS......Page 238
1 Standard Program Plan Outline......Page 240
2 Standard Technical Plan Outline......Page 244
3 Risk Mitigation Plan......Page 248
4 Contract/Subcontract Outline......Page 252
5 Configuration Management Plan Outline......Page 255
6 Quality Assurance Plan Outline......Page 258
7 Requirements Traceability Matrix......Page 262
8 Requirements Flow-Down Matrix......Page 266
9 Data Delivery Matrix......Page 268
10 Capability Matrix......Page 270
11 Policy-to-Plan Trail......Page 272
12 Experience Window......Page 274
13 Standards Traceability Matrix......Page 276
14 Vendor Evaluation Process......Page 279
15 Design Review Approval Form......Page 284
16 In-Process Review Approval Form......Page 286
17 Negotiation Checklist......Page 288
18 Critical Success Factor (CSF) Matrix......Page 290
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 292
INDEX......Page 296
