A forward looking approach to project management : tools, trends, and the impact of disruptive technologies

• Main Author: Gurjar, Nikhil (Author)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer, [2016]
• Series: Lecture notes in management and industrial engineering.
• Subjects: Project management.; Project management > Technological innovations.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9789811007828; 9789811007811
• ISSN: 2198-0772
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxx, 401 pages) : illustrations (some color)

This book is intended as a basis for advanced treatment of concepts in project management. In the current scenario where most questions are answered through the internet, the knowledge element in project management has come under the influence of disruptive technologies. In other words, project mana...

Table of Contents:

• Preface; Acknowledgement; The Rationale Behind This Book; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Part I A Reality Check; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 How Project Management Evolved; 1.2.1 PMBoK® as a Guidance Versus PMBoK® as a Standard; 1.2.2 Navigating Through the Layers; 1.3 How Are These Methods Different?; 1.3.1 The Micro-Drill Effect; 1.3.2 Characterizing the Change; 1.4 Types of Project Environments; 1.4.1 What Is the Business Issue?; 1.4.2 Limitations of Existing Attempts; 1.4.3 Refining the Business Issue; 1.4.4 An Alternative Framework; 1.5 Types of Projects.
• 1.5.1 Cardinal Questions1.5.2 Conventional Thinking on Types; 1.5.3 Why Is Classification Not Useable?; 1.5.4 An Alternate View; 1.6 The Distinction Between the Two Approaches; 1.6.1 Advantages of Stereotyping; 1.6.2 Disadvantages of Stereotyping; 1.7 Key Takeaways; 2 Basic Misconceptions in Projects; 2.1 Hello World!; 2.1.1 Drawing the Line Between Projects and Operations; 2.1.2 Similarities Between Projects and Operations; 2.2 Projects in Business; 2.3 Project Approvals are Complex Financial Decisions; 2.3.1 Cost
• Benefit Analysis; 2.3.2 Appraise the Investment.
• 2.3.3 Recap of Basic Financial Management Concepts2.4 A More Balanced Perspective of Project Evaluation; 2.5 Key Takeaways; 3 A Quick Honest Beginning!; 3.1 All's Well!; 3.2 Caselet 1; 3.3 Caselet 2; 3.4 Caselet 3; 3.5 Caselet 4; 3.6 Real Life Cases: As Narrated by a Project Manager-1; 3.7 Real Life Cases: As Narrated by a Project Manager-2; 3.8 Real Life Cases: As Narrated by a Project Manager-3; 3.8.1 Case 1; 3.8.2 Case 2; Part II Reviewing Projects: First Level; 4 The Systems View of Management-I; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 An Example Framework; 4.3 The Project Management Context.
• 4.4 Project Phase4.5 Project Life Cycle; 4.6 Types of Project Life Cycles; 4.6.1 SDLC: The Linear Model; 4.6.2 The Incremental Model; 4.6.3 A Quick Simulation; 4.6.4 Rapid Application Development; 4.7 A Generic Treatment; 4.8 A Popular Issue; 4.9 Key Takeaways; 5 The Systems View of Management-II; 5.1 The Project Organization; 5.1.1 The Structural Frame; 5.1.2 The Human Resource Frame; 5.1.3 The Political Frame; 5.1.4 The Symbolic Frame; 5.2 Project Organization: Types of Structural Frames; 5.3 Functional Organization; 5.4 Projectized Organizations; 5.5 Matrix Organizations.
• 5.6 Demystifying the Structural Frame5.7 The Biological Entrepreneurial Model; 5.7.1 Understanding the Biological Component; 5.7.2 A Quick View of the Model; 5.8 Key Takeaways; 6 Basic Mantras of Project Management; 6.1 A Serious Note to Begin with!; 6.2 Wits of Experience!; 6.3 Formal Project Management; 6.4 Project Stakeholders; 6.5 The First Mantra; 6.6 Project Scope Management; 6.7 The Second Mantra; 6.8 Project Plan and Schedule Management; 6.8.1 Two Problems to Avoid; 6.9 The Third Mantra; 6.10 Project Costing; 6.10.1 The Pseudo Management Problem; 6.11 The Fourth Mantra.