The Evolution of Project Management Practice
Subtitle: From Programmes and Contracts to Benefits and Change
By: Darren Dalcher
Edition: First edition.
Series: Advances in Project Management
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2017
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781315113630
Subjects: Project management; Gestion de projet
Description: "Project practice has undergone significant changes requiring new ways of thinking about and managing projects. The single focus on the staged delivery of artefacts is gradually being replaced by a wider interest in stakeholders, value, benefits and complexity. As a result there is a growing interest in the development of practitioner capabilities, grounded in the recognition that dealing with permeable boundaries and unstructured situations transcends normative processes. Modern practitioners increasingly utilise deliberative and reflective approaches, often challenging received wisdom and traditional interpretations. This volume provides a sampling of some of the best writing in the project domain, enabling readers to access a wider group of authors, ideas and perspectives. Key topics covered include agility and programme management, planning, people, business cases, contracts, teams, sponsorship, collaboration, strategy, patterns, context, change, and benefits. The main aims of the collection are to reflect on the state of practice within the discipline; to propose new extensions and additions to good practice; to offer new insights and perspectives; to distil new knowledge; and, to provide a way of sampling a range of the most promising ideas, perspectives and styles of writing from some of the leading thinkers and practitioners in the discipline."--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: Chapter Introduction: the evolution of project practice  -- Darren Dalcher; title: chapter 1 Programme management --; title: chapter 2 Planning --; title: chapter 3 People --; title: chapter 4 Business case --; title: chapter 5 Contracts --; title: chapter 6 Teams --; title: chapter 7 Sponsorship --; title: chapter 8 Collaboration --; title: chapter 9 Strategy --; title: chapter 10 Context --; title: chapter 11 Change --; title: chapter 12 Benefits.