Download or read book Making Projects Critical written by Damian Hodgson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2006-04-20 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making Projects Critical is an edited collection contributed by a range of international scholars linking the area of project management with critical management perspectives. Challenging recent debates on inherent problems in project management, the text considers project management within a wider organizational and societal context.
Download or read book Making Projects Critical written by Damian Hodgson and published by Red Globe Press. This book was released on 2006-04-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making Projects Critical is an edited collection contributed by a range of international scholars linking the area of project management with critical management perspectives. Challenging recent debates on inherent problems in project management, the text considers project management within a wider organizational and societal context.
Download or read book Project Decisions 2nd Edition written by Lev Virine and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition gives project managers practical methods and tools to make the right decisions while juggling multiple objectives, risks and uncertainties, and stakeholders. Project management requires you to navigate a maze of multiple and complex decisions that are an everyday part of the job. To be effective, you must know how to make rational choices with your projects, what processes can help to improve these choices, and what tools are available to help you with decision-making. An entertaining and easy-to-read guide to a structured project decision-making process, Project Decisions will help you identify risks and perform basic quantitative and qualitative risk and decision analyses. Lev Virine and Michael Trumper use their understanding of basic human psychology to show you how to use event chain methodology, establish creative business environments, and estimate project time and costs. Each phase of the process is described in detail, including a review of both its psychological aspects and quantitative methods.
Download or read book The Rational Project Manager written by A. Longman and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-07-10 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive exploration of the project management process presents the tools, steps, and processes of project management and uncovers the critical thinking -- the why -- vital to project management excellence. Incorporating Kepner-Tregoe?s renowned and effective problem-solving and decision-making processes, the book guides you through the core activities of project management?planning, solving problems, making decisions, and assessing risk. It positions projects within an organization?s "performance environment," an understanding of which is essential for effective team performance and alignment. Offering a combination of overarching insights into organizational dynamics, as well as specific processes and practices for effective management, this is a resource no project leader -- and no project team member -- should be without.
Download or read book Proceedings of the 5th Making Projects Critical Workshop 21 22 January 2010 written by Peter Case and published by . This book was released on 2010* with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Critical Decision making Skills for Project Managers written by Frank R. Parth and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Project managers make decisions on a daily basis. Most are relatively unimportant; while some are critical and will cause the project to be successful or to fail. Most of us consider ourselves competent decision makers based on our own history of making reasonable decisions in past projects. Yet there is a great deal of recent neurological research that indicates our brains really are not normally logical; in fact, most decisions are made emotionally and only later justified if questioned by the rational portion of our brains. Once a normal person has made a decision, he or she searches for data to support that decision rather than the other way around. How can you ensure that your critical project decisions are as good as they can be? This paper looks at the most common flaws in decision making: Errors in logic; false assumptions; unreliable memories; mistaking the symptom for the problem; and biases. In doing so, it overviews the classical decision-making approach and identifies its problems. A list of 25 biases is also presented.
Download or read book MAKING IT HAPPEN A NON TECHNICAL GUIDE TO PROJECT MANAGEMENT written by Mackenzie Kyle and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2007-09 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Market_Desc: Project Managers, General or Middle Managers with no project management experience, including Marketing Managers, Office Managers, Product Specialists, Operations Managers, Research Analysts, Event Planners, Production Engineers, TQM Implementors, Change Management Managers, Maintenance Schedulers, and task force members of all kinds, Training and Human Resources Managers, Consultants, Libraries Special Features: · Pull-out boxes, summaries, definitions and charts highlight key points, lessons, and practical project management tips · Appeals not only to traditionally project-oriented industries (such as construction), but also to a much wider audience of business professionals involved in teams or management of projects, such as systems implementation, office moves, product roll-outs, training program delivery, and others · Provides a simpler, more logical approach to the mostly-technical information available on managing projects· The field of project management is now littered with tools and techniques of marginal or negative value in most situations; this book highlights the most important and useful tools for the reader About The Book: Making It Happen: A Non-Technical Guide to Project Management provides a fresh and clear approach to project management. Written in the form of a novel, it covers the basics of project management in a friendly, interesting, and memorable way. The book enables the reader to transform risky, real-life situations into success. The story follows the learning experience of Will Campbell, a middle manager with no project management experience. Suddenly plunged into managing a career-threatening project, Will must learn the hard way, experiencing all the frustration and fulfillment of mastering some indispensable project management tools along the way. Readers will not only relate to each pitfall, but will also discover a simple mental framework to avoid them all.
Download or read book Project Management 101 written by Chavela Juanita and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2024-07-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Project Management 101: Critical Thinking for Success Are you ready to revolutionize your career and master the art of project management? Dive into Project Management 101: Critical Thinking for Success, the second book in the Modern Workforce Mastery Series, and your ultimate blueprint for excelling in today's fast-paced business world. Why This Book? No Fluff, Just Substance: Every page is packed with actionable insights and practical strategies, with no filler content. Comprehensive Coverage: Uncover every aspect of project management from initiation to closing, with expert insights into scope, time, cost, and quality management. Real-World Applications: Learn from real-life case studies and practical exercises that bring theories to life and prepare you for actual challenges. Critical Thinking Focus: Enhance your decision-making skills and problem-solving abilities with critical thinking strategies tailored to project management. Transform Your Approach: Develop Robust Project Charters: Set your projects up for success from the start. Create Effective Management Plans: Streamline your processes and optimize resource allocation. Anticipate Challenges: Use critical thinking to foresee and tackle obstacles before they derail your project. Whether you're reentering the workforce, striving to stay competitive, or eager to drive innovation, this book is your key to unlocking success. Don't just manage projects-master them. Grab your copy of Project Management 101: Critical Thinking for Success, the latest addition to the Workforce Mastery Series, today and embark on your journey to excellence!
Download or read book Project Communications written by Connie Plowman and published by Business Expert Press. This book was released on 2020-07-24 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a new way to look at communication within projects. It combines real-world examples and practical tips with theory, research, and professional standards you can apply to any size and type of project. Communication is vital for project success. Experts know it. Industry-wide research verifies it. Yet projects continue to fail because of poor communication. As a result, stakeholders and organizations don’t realize the benefits of their projects and project teams. This book presents a new way to look at communication within projects. It combines real-world examples and practical tips with theory, research, and professional standards you can apply to any size and type of project. Gain actionable insights into identifying your audience, choosing the right tools, managing change, and handling conflict. Expand your professional toolkit with templates, activities, and resources. Develop your project communications expertise with reflective questions and recommendations. Whether you are a project manager, team member, project sponsor, or stakeholder, this book is for you. For educators, the book is ideal for students studying project management and related fields. Make your project communications a critical factor in your project success!
Download or read book Managing Projects written by and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Managing Projects provides proven strategies for making sure any size task achieve its goal - on time and on budget Covering the gamut of tasks involved in managing any project, this portable guide develops ideas about planning, team building, motivation, mid-course assessment and correction, and after-project review. It helps managers determine whether and how to make the critical tradeoffs between time, cost, and quality that are the essence of project management. Managers at any level can use this portable guide to become more efficient and effective multi-taskers. Key features Instructs readers how to: Scope out a project and identify resources needed Develop schedules and set deadlines Monitor budgets and keep projects on track Communicate progress and problems to stakeholders Overcome some typical project snags
Download or read book Critical Chain written by Eliyahu M Goldratt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fast-paced business novel does for project management what The Goal and It's Not Luck have done for production and marketing. Goldratts novels have traditionally slain sacred cows and delivered new ways of looking at processes which seem like common sense once you read them. Critical Chain is no exception. In perhaps Elis most readable book yet, two of the established principles of project management, the engineering estimate and project milestones, are found wanting and dismissed, and other established principles are up for scrutiny - as Goldratt once more applies his Theory of Constraints. The approach is radical, yet clear, understandable and logical. New techniques are introduced, and Project Buffers, Feeding Buffers, Limit Multitasking, Improved Communications and Correct Measurements make them work. Goldratt even handles the complicated statistics of dispersed variability versus accumulated variability so deftly you wont even be aware of learning about them - theyll just seem like more common sense! Critical Chain is critical reading for anyone who deals with projects. If you use block diagrams, drawings or charts to keep track of your activities, you are managing a project - and this book is for you.
Download or read book Creating the Project Office written by Randall L. Englund and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2003-02-03 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creating the Project Office is written for managers who are searching for ways to transform their organizations into more effective and efficient project-based workplaces. As this important book reveals, there is no more effective way to make that change than to create a project office tailored to the needs of the organization. While a project office model leads to better products from projects, it is also a vehicle for generating overall organizational change -- by transforming the organization from function-based to project-based. This model incorporates projects into the very fabric of the organizational strategy and revitalizes organizations, creates competitive advantage, and increases shareholder value.
Download or read book Open Design Now written by Bas van Abel and published by Bis Publishers. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Digital information about physical products and the availability of production tools and facilities transforms design into an open discipline
Download or read book Perspectives on Projects written by Rodney J. Turner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-06-10 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perspectives on Projects describes the full range of skills a project manager must develop. By grouping these skills into nine schools and developing a metaphor for each approach, students and managers alike are better able to apply the theory in developing a strategy for managing their project.
Download or read book DIY Citizenship written by Matt Ratto and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2014-02-07 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How social media and DIY communities have enabled new forms of political participation that emphasize doing and making rather than passive consumption. Today, DIY—do-it-yourself—describes more than self-taught carpentry. Social media enables DIY citizens to organize and protest in new ways (as in Egypt's “Twitter revolution” of 2011) and to repurpose corporate content (or create new user-generated content) in order to offer political counternarratives. This book examines the usefulness and limits of DIY citizenship, exploring the diverse forms of political participation and “critical making” that have emerged in recent years. The authors and artists in this collection describe DIY citizens whose activities range from activist fan blogging and video production to knitting and the creation of community gardens. Contributors examine DIY activism, describing new modes of civic engagement that include Harry Potter fan activism and the activities of the Yes Men. They consider DIY making in learning, culture, hacking, and the arts, including do-it-yourself media production and collaborative documentary making. They discuss DIY and design and how citizens can unlock the black box of technological infrastructures to engage and innovate open and participatory critical making. And they explore DIY and media, describing activists' efforts to remake and reimagine media and the public sphere. As these chapters make clear, DIY is characterized by its emphasis on “doing” and making rather than passive consumption. DIY citizens assume active roles as interventionists, makers, hackers, modders, and tinkerers, in pursuit of new forms of engaged and participatory democracy. Contributors Mike Ananny, Chris Atton, Alexandra Bal, Megan Boler, Catherine Burwell, Red Chidgey, Andrew Clement, Negin Dahya, Suzanne de Castell, Carl DiSalvo, Kevin Driscoll, Christina Dunbar-Hester, Joseph Ferenbok, Stephanie Fisher, Miki Foster, Stephen Gilbert, Henry Jenkins, Jennifer Jenson, Yasmin B. Kafai, Ann Light, Steve Mann, Joel McKim, Brenda McPhail, Owen McSwiney, Joshua McVeigh-Schultz, Graham Meikle, Emily Rose Michaud, Kate Milberry, Michael Murphy, Jason Nolan, Kate Orton-Johnson, Kylie A. Peppler, David J. Phillips, Karen Pollock, Matt Ratto, Ian Reilly, Rosa Reitsamer, Mandy Rose, Daniela K. Rosner, Yukari Seko, Karen Louise Smith, Lana Swartz, Alex Tichine, Jennette Weber, Elke Zobl
Download or read book Making Being written by Susan Jahoda and published by . This book was released on 2020-01-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Making and Being draws on the lived experience of Susan Jahoda and Caroline Woolard, visual arts educators who have developed a framework for teaching art with the collective BFAMFAPhD that emphasizes contemplation, collaboration, and political economy. The authors share ideas and pedagogical strategies that they have adapted to spaces of learning which range widely, from self-organized workshops for professional artists to Foundations BFA and MFA thesis classes. This hands-on guide includes activities, worksheets, and assignments and is a critical resource for artists and art educators today"--Page 4 of cover.
Download or read book Argumentation and Critical Decision Making written by Richard D. Rieke and published by Addison Wesley Publishing Company. This book was released on 1997 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The principles of practical reasoning integrated into real world applications is the basic premise behind Professors Richard D. Rieke and Malcom O. Sillars' fourth edition of Argumentation and Critical Decision Making. The most current theories and research are combined with classic rhetoric to effectively explain the necessary functions of decision making in any given situation. With an increased emphasis on critical thinking, Rieke and Sillars help connect critical decisions with audience values and conventions. Real life examples are used to illuminate the principles of argumentation, ranging from interpersonal discussions to formalized conventions of science and law. A new discussion of language and argumentation highlights language practices that have had the most impact on effective argumentation.
