This book provides you with the tools required to approach and manage projects. These effective skills will impact positively on the success of both the projects you are involved with and of your organization. Project Management Toolkit introduces the whole project life-cycle. It is the first of four project management titles that separately build skills in critical PM areas and together provide a powerful project management resource.
Author(s): Trish Melton
Edition: 2
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
Year: 2007
Language: English
Pages: 300
Cover
About the author
About the Project Management Essentials series
Foreword
Acknowledgements
How to use this book
Contents
1. Introduction
Aims
Management by project
The Project Manager
2. The project life-cycle
What is a project?
What is the project life-cycle?
Why do projects fail?
The ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ side of project management
3. Stage One: why?
Why?
Tool: ‘Why?’ Checklist
The ‘Why?’ Checklist explained
Using the ‘Why?’ Checklist
Tool: Benefits Hierarchy
The Benefits Hierarchy explained
Using the Benefits Hierarchy
Tool: Benefits Specification Table
The Benefits Specification Table explained
Using the Benefits Specification Table
Tool: Business Case Tool (value-add or not?)
The Business Case Tool explained
Using the Business Case Tool
Case study A — if only the ‘Why?’ Checklist had been around then!
Case study B — using the ‘Why?’ Checklist to stop a project
Case study C — using the why tools to justify a project
Handy hints
Further reading
And finally . . .
4. Stage Two: how?
How?
Project delivery planning
Tool: ‘How?’ Checklist
The ‘How?’ Checklist explained
Using the ‘How’? Checklist
Tool: Stakeholder Management Plan
The Stakeholder Management Plan explained
Using the Stakeholder Management Plan
Tool: Table of Critical Success Factors (CSFs)
The Table of Critical Success Factors explained
Using the Table of Critical Success Factors
Tool: RACI Chart
The RACI Chart explained
Using the RACI Chart
Tool: Control Specification Table
The Control Specification Table explained
Using the Control Specification Table
Case study D — if only the ‘How?’ Checklist had been around then!
Case study E — using the ‘How?’ Checklist to re-plan a project
Case study F — using the how tools to plan a project
Handy hints
Further reading
And finally . . .
5. Stage Three: in control?
In control?
Control strategy
Tool: ‘In Control?’ Checklist
The ‘In Control?’ Checklist explained
Using the ‘In Control?’ Checklist
Tool: Risk Table and Matrix
The Risk Table and Matrix explained
Using the Risk Table and Matrix
Tool: Earned Value
The Earned Value Tool explained
Using the Earned Value Tool
Tool: Project Scorecard
The Project Scorecard explained
Using the Project Scorecard
Case study G — if only the ‘In Control?’ Checklist had been around then!
Case study H — using the in control tools to stop a project
Case study I — using the in control tools to review a project
Handy hints
Further reading
And finally . . .
6. Stage Four: benefits realized?
Sustainability
Tool: ‘Benefits Realized?’ Checklist
The ‘Benefits Realized?’ Checklist explained
Using the ‘Benefits Realized?’ Checklist
Tool: Benefits Tracking Tool
The Benefits Tracking Tool explained
Using the Benefits Tracking Tool
Tool: Project Assessment Tool
The Project Assessment Tool explained
Using the Project Assessment Tool
Tool: Sustainability Checklist
The Sustainability Checklist explained
Using the Sustainability Checklist
Case study J — if only the ‘Benefits Realized?’ Checklist had been around then!
Case study K — using the benefits realized tools to redevelop a project
Case study L — using the benefits realized tools to review a project
Handy hints
Further reading
And finally . . .
7. Case Study One: the pharma facility project
Situation
Stage One — Business Case Development
Lessons learnt
Stage Two — Project Delivery Planning
Lessons learnt
Stage Three — Project Delivery
Lessons learnt
Stage Four — Benefits Realization
Lessons learnt
Conclusion
Points to remember
8. Case Study Two: the business change project
Situation
Stage One — Business Case Development
Lessons learnt
Stage Two — Project Delivery Planning
Lessons learnt
Stage Three — Project Delivery
Lessons learnt
Stage Four — Benefits Realization
Lessons learnt
Conclusions
And finally…
Index
