The Art and Science of Project Management
Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Preface
Why Project Management
Project Management is revolutionizing business
Project Management is revolutionizing
Acknowledgments
Preface to the Third Edition
Preface to the Second Edition
Introduction
Structure of the Book
Advice to the Beginner
Advice to Instructors
Conventions
Challenge Everything
Part I: Projects, Project Managers, and Their Environment
1 Projects
1.1 The Project Management Institute
1.2 What is a Project?
1.3 Project Management
1.4 Benefits of Project Management
1.5 Project Life Cycles
1.6 Industry Life Cycle Examples
2 The Project Manager
2.1 Responsibility and Authority
2.2 Project Manager Skills
2.3 Project Manager Competencies
3 The Project Environment
3.1 The Internal Environment
3.2 The External Environment
3.3 The Project’s Rationale
3.4 Programs
3.5 The Company Environment
3.6 Cultures
3.7 Project Structures
4 Portfolios
4.1 Mission, Goals, Objectives, and Strategy
4.2 Portfolio Management
4.3 Portfolio Selection
4.4 Selecting Projects for PMA
4.5 Setting Up a Selection Process
4.6 Financial Evaluation Criteria
Part II: The Technical Skills
5 Deliverables and Milestones
5.1 Deliverables
5.2 Milestones
6 Integration
6.1 The Charter
6.2 Integrated Change Control
6.3 The Project Management Plan
7 Stakeholders
7.1 Definition
7.2 Identifying Stakeholders
7.3 Stakeholder Engagement
8 The Scope
8.1 Beginning the Scope
8.2 Scope Contents
8.3 Statement of Work (SOW)
8.4 The Triple Constraints
8.5 The Priority Matrix
8.6 Scope Issues
8.7 Sample Scope Statement
9 The WBS
9.1 The Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
9.2 WBS Construction Rules
9.3 Some Bad WBS Practices
9.4 Graphical vs. Outline WBS
9.5 WBS Design
9.6 WBS for the PMA Case
10 Cost Estimation
10.1 Politics
10.2 Cost Estimates
10.3 Types of Cost Estimates
10.4 Cost Estimate Examples
10.5 Parametric Estimates
10.6 More Estimation Techniques
10.7 Bottom-Up Cost Estimate
10.8 The Budget
10.9 Cash Flow
10.10 Contingencies and Management Reserves
10.11 PERT
10.12 Overhead Costs
10.13 Cost Estimation Summary
11 Schedule Estimation
11.1 Schedule Estimation Methods
11.2 Estimating the Schedule
11.3 The Network Diagram
11.4 The Critical Path
11.5 Network Issues
11.6 An Example
11.7 From Network Diagram to Cost Profile
11.8 The Schedule for the PMA Case
12 Earned Value
12.1 How ya doin’?
12.2 Formal Definitions
12.3 Simple Example
12.4 Notes on Earned Value
12.5 The Re-Paving Project
12.6 Using Earned Value Management
12.7 Large Project Example
12.8 Further Reading
13 Cost and Schedule Tracking
13.1 TCPI
13.3 Derivation of the Estimated Duration Equation
13.4 Writing the Report
13.5 Performance Reports
14 Quality
14.1 A Discussion About Quality
14.2 Quality Planning
4.3 Quality Assurance
14.4 Quality Control
15 Resources
15.1 The Resources Plan
15.2 Acquiring the Project Team
15.3 Developing the Project Team
15.4 Managing the Project Team
16 Communications
16.1 Planning Communications
16.2 Identifying Communication Requirements
16.3 PMA Communications Management
17 Risks
17.1 Definition of Risk
17.2 Steps in Risk Analysis
17.3 Planning Risk Management
17.4 Identifying Risks
17.5 Risk Response Strategies
17.6 Risk Analysis
17.7 Monitoring and Controlling Risks
18 Procurement
18.1 Contract Types
18.2 Selecting a Contract
18.3 Closing Contracts
19 Ethics
19.1 An Example of an Ethical Issue
19.2 More Ethical Examples
19.3 TD vs. PM Revisited
Part III: Agile Project Management
20 The Agile Framework
20.1 Why Agile?
20.2 Choosing a Development Model
20.3 The Agile Framework
20.4 The Agile Team
20.5 Agile Planning
20.6 User Stories
20.7 Estimating Agile Projects
20.8 Agile Cost Tracking
20.9 The Project Manager’s Role in Agile
21 Agile Sprints
21.1 Agile Start Activities
21.2 Sprint Planning
21.3 The First Sprint
21.4 Daily Scrums
21.5 The Sprint Work
21.6 The Sprint Backlog
21.7 The Sprint Review
21.8 Sprint Retrospectives
21.9 Sprint Velocity
22 The SAMPL App
22.1 SAMPL Agile Start Activities
22.2 SAMPL Sprint #1
22.3 Examples of Sprint Activities
22.4 SAMPL Cost and Schedule Tracking
Part IV: Sample Projects
23 A New Kitchen
23.1 Why?
23.2 The Pre-K Project
23.3 The New Kitchen Project
24 The Picnic Case
24.1 The Picnic Project
24.2 Initiating Process Group
24.3 Planning Process Group
24.4 Executing Process Group
Part V Knowledge Areas, Process Groups, and Processes
25 Knowledge Areas, Process Groups, and Processes
25.1 The Process Groups
25.2 Processes
25.3 The Knowledge Areas
25.4 Notes on the PMBOK 6th Edition
Part V Microsoft Project® Tutorial
26 Microsoft Project Tutorial
26.1 Start Project
26.2 Change Project Settings
26.3 Enter Project Information
26.4 Enter the Tasks
26.5 Creating Summary Tasks and Subtasks
26.6 Link Tasks
26.7 Displaying the WBS ID
26.8 Assign Durations
26.9 Inserting Milestones
26.10 Showing and Hiding Summary Tasks
26.11 Resources
26.12 Assigning Resources to Tasks
26.13 Changing Assigned Resources
26.14 Project Calendars
26.15 The Work Column
26.16 Fine Tuning the Schedule
26.17T racking Project Progress
26.18 Comparing Actual Progress against the Baseline
26.19 Printing Reports