| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 293 pages) : illustrations |
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text txt rdacontent |
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computer c rdamedia |
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online resource cr rdacarrier |
| Series |
Project management essentials series |
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Butterworth-Heinemann/IChemE series |
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Project management essentials series.
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Butterworth-Heinemann/IChemE series.
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| Summary |
A practical handbook for career project managers and those involved intermittently with projects throughout their career. Brief and visually led, Managing Project Delivery gets to the point, giving you the knowledge and confidence to manage project benefits and increase the certainty of success. Focused on the needs of engineering and technical Project Managers, but generic enough to support projects in other areas such as business change, IT and product development. Supported by downloadable on-line project benefits management tool templates that enable the techniques developed in the book to be applied in practice. Comprehensive real world case studies demonstrate the use of tools. Successful projects are the basis for the business many successful organisations, but many professionals lack the basic skills required to manage projects successfully. This book shows how to maximise the outcomes of projects and to ensure that the benefits arising from projects -- large or small -- are fully realized by the business. This key outcome can be easily overlooked or sidelined by the need to keep projects on track. Managing Project Delivery provides simple yet powerful tools to ensure that projects deliver on their goals in a controlled and accountable manner. It is the first of four project management titles that separately build skills and together provide a powerful project management resource. * A practical handbook for career project managers and those involved intermittently with projects throughout their career. * Brief and visually led, Managing Project Delivery gets to the point, giving you the knowledge and confidence to deliver projects and increase the certainty of success. * Focused on the needs of both engineering and technical Project Managers, but generic enough to support projects in other areas such as business change, IT and product development. * Supported by downloadable on-line project delivery tool templates that enable the techniques developed in the book to be applied in practice. * Comprehensive real world case studies demonstrate the use of tools. * Project delivery is the third stage of the project lifecycle. This book shows how to maintain control and forecast the project outcome. Provides expert advice, tried-and-tested techniques and a delivery toolkit to address: . Business alignment . Value delivery . Control and forecasting. |
| Contents |
Introduction; Project, Programme and Portfolio Delivery; Business Plan Delivery; Set-up Plan Delivery; Control Plan Delivery; When Projects Go Wrong; Case Study One: Capital Engineering Project; Case Study Two: Accounts System Improvement; Appendices. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
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Print version record. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (page 290) and index. |
| Subject |
Project management.
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Chemical engineering -- Management.
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Gestion de projet.
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Génie chimique -- Gestion.
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Project Management.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Project Management.
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Project management
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| Added Author |
Iles-Smith, Peter.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Melton, Trish. Managing project delivery. 1st ed. Amsterdam ; Boston ; London : Butterworth-Heinemann, 2009 9780750685153 0750685158 (OCoLC)173499229 |
| ISBN |
9780750685153 |
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0750685158 |
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9780080559063 (electronic bk.) |
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0080559069 (electronic bk.) |
| Standard No. |
9786612034626 |
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AU@ 000048130799 |
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AU@ 000053261951 |
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CHBIS 006041483 |
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CHNEW 001008737 |
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CHVBK 199659052 |
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DEBBG BV042304711 |
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DEBSZ 367753626 |
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DEBSZ 372811167 |
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NZ1 13242177 |
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NZ1 15188702 |
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