Download or read book Project Management in Extreme Situations written by Monique Aubry and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2016-12-12 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The growing complexity of projects today, as well as the uncertainty inherent in innovative projects, is making obsolete traditional project management practices and procedures, which are based on the notion that much about a project is known at its start. The current high level of change and complexity confronting organizational leaders and managers requires a new approach to projects so they can be managed flexibly to embrace and exploit change. What once used to be considered extreme uncertainty is now the norm, and managing planned projects is being replaced by managing projects as they evolve. Successfully managing projects in extreme situations, such as polar and military expeditions, shows how to manage successfully projects in today’s turbulent environment. Executed under the harshest and most unpredictable conditions, these projects are great sources for learning about how to manage unexpected and unforeseen situations as they occur. This book presents multiple case studies of managing extreme events as they happened during polar, mountain climbing, military, and rescue expeditions. A boat accident in the Artic is a lesson on how an effective project manager must be ambidextrous: on one hand able to follow plans and on the other hand able to abandon those plans when disaster strikes and improvise new ones in response. Polar expeditions also illustrate how a team can use "weak links" to go beyond its usual information network to acquire strategic information. Fire and rescues operations illustrate how one team member’s knowledge can be transferred to the entire team. Military operations provide case material on how teams coordinate and make use of both individual and collective competencies. This groundbreaking work pushes the definitions of a project and project management to reveal new insight that benefits researchers, academics, and the practitioners managing projects in today’s challenging and uncertain times.

Download or read book Effective Project Management written by 50minutes, and published by 50Minutes.com. This book was released on 2017-05-24 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ready to take your career to the next level? Find out everything you need to know about successful project management with this practical guide. The ability to manage a project effectively is an essential skill for anybody hoping to progress in their career. However, from tight budgets to a lack of resources, there are many obstacles that can stop you in your tracks. This guide will teach you how to plan for mistakes effectively, organise your team and ensure your project is a success! In 50 minutes you will be able to: • Identify the three key stages of project management, what they entail and how much time you should spend on each • Create a comprehensive plan for the development of your project, taking into account the costs, the people involved and the time needed • Assess the possible risks that may have a negative impact on your project, identify their probability and create a backup plan ABOUT 50MINUTES.COM | COACHING The Coaching series from the 50Minutes collection is aimed at all those who, at any stage in their careers, are looking to acquire personal or professional skills, adapt to new situations or simply re-evaluate their work-life balance. The concise and effective style of our guides enables you to gain an in-depth understanding of a broad range of concepts, combining theory, constructive examples and practical exercises to enhance your learning.

Download or read book Essentials of Logistics and Management written by Francis-Luc Perret and published by EPFL Press. This book was released on 2007-09-07 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Essentials of Logistics and Management provides a broad expertly guided investigation into the knowledge required to maximize the practice of logistics in a way that contributes to a company's growth. The text elaborates upon a conceptual framework in which the role of all stakeholders and possible logistics are analyzed in a systematic approach that explores customer relations management, interactive information support, production optimization, and operations management, as well as human resources and resource allocation. The purpose of this book is help managers employ vision and strategy in developing a methodology that identifies, evaluates, and utilizes all critical factors.

Download or read book Project Managers as Senior Executives written by Russell D. Archibald, PhD (Hon), Msc, PMP and published by Project Management Institute. This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Project Managers as Senior Executives maps out a model for advancement for program and project managers and contributes new thinking on the emerging leadership of project managers as senior executives. The research is published in two volumes. Volume I—Research Results, Advancement Model, and Action Proposals presents the results and proposals from the study and Volume 2—How the Research Was Conducted: Methodology, Detailed Findings, and Analyses contains the research-oriented materials from the study.

Download or read book Pratiques de management de projet 3e d 50 outils et techniques pour prendre la bonne d cision written by Vincent Drecq and published by Dunod. This book was released on 2020-02-05 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vous souhaitez améliorer vos pratiques de gestion de projet sur : votre prise de décision en groupe. vos estimations et vos plannings. votre manière de résoudre les problèmes. votre anticipation des risques. vos relations avec les autres acteurs projet. Vous avez coché au moins deux propositions ? Ce livre est fait pour vous ! Les 50 fiches proposées regroupées en 8 chapitres vous permettent de découvrir des méthodes concrètes qui ont fait leurs preuves. Cette 3e édition, mise à jour et enrichie de nouveau outils, met l’accent sur : - les techniques de planification avec la matrice de traçabilité, la méthode MoSCoW ou encore le diagramme Temps-Temps ; - les techniques de prise de décisions en groupe avec la méthode Disney ; - des conseils pratiques pour utiliser l’outil le plus adapté au contexte.

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Download or read book The Multiple Facets of Innovation Project Management written by Sandrine Fernez-Walch and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-03-13 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For firms and other organizations, innovation has become a means of anticipating and managing major changes in their external context and overcoming societal challenges such as sustainable development. As a result, they must innovate repeatedly and continuously. This book explores the multiple facets of innovation project management, defined as the set of activities implemented to bring into being and successfully complete one or several innovation projects. It combines research experience, in cooperation with practitioners, and a theoretical, transversal and global overview inspired from different research streams. The author develops methodologies and frameworks that might be put into practice, provides a case study of research conducted with an air systems manufacturing firm, and outlines avenues for further reflection on innovation project management practice improvement.

Download or read book Estimation des projets de l entreprise num rique Approche syst mique co ts qualit et d lais written by PRINTZ Jacques and published by Lavoisier. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Les projets informatiques sont désormais développés dans le cadre d’un système existant. Ils doivent, in fine, s’intégrer en interaction avec d’autres projets, sur les infrastructures communes de l’entreprise et sans interrompre le service : c’est la notion d’usine logicielle. Estimation des projets de l’entreprise numérique s’intéresse particulièrement à l’analyse des coûts d’intégration. Un modèle original d’estimation de ces coûts est proposé assurant l’équilibrage des quatre grandeurs fondamentales : coût, qualité, fonctionnalité et délai. Cet ouvrage bénéficie des travaux effectués par le groupe de travail Intégration & Complexité de l’association CESAMES, en relation avec la chaire X-ParisTech, ce qui a permis de valider le modèle avec les industriels participants. Il présente en détail le modèle COCOMO et dresse les grandes lignes de la méthode de comptage par points de fonctions. Une étude de cas basée sur les systèmes C4ISTAR illustre l’utilisation de ces méthodes dans un contexte de systèmes réels de grande complexité.

Download or read book Europe s Next Step written by Lars Andreasen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks at the experience of 13 leading-edge European firms and institutions, drawn from the manufacturing services and health sectors. It shows how organisation has been the key to their productivity growth. It also shows that while Europe has much to learn from Japan and the USA, it has considerable expertise on which the production sector can grow.

Download or read book Working on Innovation written by Christophe Midler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-09-10 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the mid-1980s, the development of competitive strategies based on intensive innovation has deeply transformed the design of new products and services. Much has been written about new methods and organizations that are likely to develop economically competitive and creative capacities in companies. But much less has been written about transformation of work and identity of professionals involved in these transitions : engineers, industrial designers, researchers, professionals in marketing strategy and especially project managers. The work of “innovation professionals” is truly difficult to observe because of its very nature (intangible work done over a long period of time), its inaccessibility, and its status. The purpose of this book is to put forward a number of keys for understanding the ongoing dynamics for working professionals in the field of innovation. Examining reorganizations in both large-scale firms and start-ups, the authors explore diverse sectors such as hi-tech, consumer goods and equipment, chemistry, aeronautics as well as upstream companies working for subsidiaries and traditional small-scale production such. The result is to show a world of networks where a large-scale firm undertakes research in partnership with a start-up, develops its products with independent designers and involves upstream suppliers in its developments. Also analyzed are the industrial strategies, the organizational conditions of product conception, and the dynamics of the professional identities of the actors who are at the core of these transformations. This impressive and unique volume will be of interest to all those interested in innovation studies, new technology policy and management as well as engineers and designers themselves.

Download or read book Les points de fonction en ing nierie logicielle principe m thode usage written by MESDON Bernard and published by Lavoisier. This book was released on 2012-07-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La méthode des points de fonction est l'outil incontournable pour la mesure fonctionnelle des SI et l'estimation des coûts de développement. Elle permet de mesurer les services rendus aux utilisateurs du SI, indépendamment des aspects architecturaux et méthodologiques du développement logiciel. Cette méthode s'applique aux fonctions de l'entreprise comme la direction des systèmes d'information (fonctions projet, processus et gouvernance), les directions métiers (fonction maîtrise d'ouvrage) ou les SSII (fonctions projet, qualité et méthodes). Des exemples et études de cas illustrant l'utilisation de la méthode permettent de définir les usages (estimation des coûts, mais aussi suivi des ratios de productivité, etc.), d'attribuer des méthodes spécifiques pour les différents types de SI (IFPUG et/ou COSMIC), de révéler les limites et extensions (cotation des algorithmes) et de déterminer les chiffres de bases (ratios de productivité, taille des SI, coefficients correcteurs, etc.). L'auteur Spécialiste en développement et direction de projet de SI, Bernard Mesdon utilise les points de fonction depuis 1996 comme outil d'analyse fonctionnelle et d'estimation des coûts de développement.

Download or read book Les facteurs humains et organisationnels dans le projet de conception d un syst me risques written by François Daniellou and published by FonCSI. This book was released on 2013-07-01 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pour favoriser des interventions humaines performantes et sûres, la démarche FHO se base sur une analyse approfondie de l’activité humaine dans les situations existantes, et sur une simulation de l’activité probable lors des futures opérations, en fonction des options techniques et organisationnelles qui se dessinent. Elle suppose la mise en place d’une maîtrise d’ouvrage forte, une articulation précise avec la maîtrise d’œuvre, et une participation de différents acteurs, notamment exploitants. Les étapes de la démarche FHO doivent être planifiées dès le début de l’avant-projet et s’étendent jusqu’à l’évaluation après démarrage.

Download or read book Safety Reliability Risk and Life Cycle Performance of Structures and Infrastructures written by George Deodatis and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2014-02-10 with total page 1112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Safety, Reliability, Risk and Life-Cycle Performance of Structures and Infrastructures contains the plenary lectures and papers presented at the 11th International Conference on STRUCTURAL SAFETY AND RELIABILITY (ICOSSAR2013, New York, NY, USA, 16-20 June 2013), and covers major aspects of safety, reliability, risk and life-cycle performance of str

Download or read book Design Applications in Industry and Education written by S. Culley and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2001-10-10 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expanding the field's reach with new approaches to application Design Applications in Industry and Education is a collection of papers presented at the 13th International Conference on Engineering Design in Glasgow, Scotland. Founded in 1981 by Workshop Design-Konstruktion, this conference has grown to become one of the field's major exchanges; one of four volumes, this book provides current insight based on the ongoing work of the field's leading engineers. Novel applications are explored with emphasis on solving barrier challenges, suggesting new avenues for implementation and expansion of engineering design's utility.

Download or read book Innovation Through Research and Development written by Hamed Taherdoost and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Information Knowledge and Agile Creativity written by Stéphane Goria and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-09-22 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Information, Knowledge and Agile Creativity will enlighten entrepreneurs, and is ideal for facilitating an organization’s ability to react and adapt to its environment. Creativity is a system that engenders innovation. While integral at the conception stage, it is also important before and after this phase. This book offers a collection of tools, as well as a methodology, to estimate the agility of an organization to generate and transform ideas into solutions that are not only new but also adapted to their users. To this end, this book presents strategic foresight and problem comprehension methods; tools of sharing and visual information formatting; animation tips for creativity workshops; techniques for generating ideas; and tools for visualizing and mapping ideas, information, and knowledge.