Giáo trình Project management the managerial process 7e by larson

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

About the Authors

Dedication

Preface

Acknowledgments

Brief Contents

Contents

Chapter 1 Modern Project Management

1.1 What Is a Project?
- What a Project Is Not
- Program versus Project
- The Project Life Cycle
- The Project Manager
- Being Part of a Project Team
1.2 Current Drivers of Project Management
- Compression of the Product Life Cycle
- Knowledge Explosion
- Triple Bottom Line (Planet, People, Profit)
- Increased Customer Focus
- Small Projects Represent Big Problems
1.3 Project Governance
- Alignment of Projects with Organizational Strategy
1.4 Project Management Today: A Socio-Technical Approach
Summary

Chapter 2 Organization Strategy and Project Selection

2.1 The Strategic Management Process: An Overview
- Four Activities of the Strategic Management Process
2.2 The Need for a Project Priority System
- Problem 1: The Implementation Gap
- Problem 2: Organization Politics
- Problem 3: Resource Conflicts and Multitasking
2.3 A Portfolio Management System
- Classification of the Project
2.4 Selection Criteria
- Financial Criteria
- Nonfinancial Criteria
2.5 Applying a Selection Model
- Project Classification
- Sources and Solicitation of Project Proposals
- Ranking Proposals and Selection of Projects
2.6 Managing the Portfolio System
- Senior Management Input
- The Governance Team Responsibilities
- Balancing the Portfolio for Risks and Types of Projects
Summary

Chapter 3 Organization: Structure and Culture

3.1 Project Management Structures
- Organizing Projects within the Functional Organization
- Organizing Projects as Dedicated Teams
- Organizing Projects within a Matrix Arrangement
- Different Matrix Forms
3.2 What Is the Right Project Management Structure?
- Organization Considerations
- Project Considerations
3.3 Organizational Culture
- What Is Organizational Culture?
- Identifying Cultural Characteristics
3.4 Implications of Organizational Culture for Organizing Projects
Summary

Chapter 4 Defining the Project

4.1 Step 1: Defining the Project Scope
- Employing a Project Scope Checklist
4.2 Step 2: Establishing Project Priorities
4.3 Step 3: Creating the Work Breakdown Structure
- Major Groupings Found in a WBS
- How WBS Helps the Project Manager
- A Simple WBS Development
4.4 Step 4: Integrating the WBS with the Organization
4.5 Step 5: Coding the WBS for the Information System
4.6 Process Breakdown Structure
4.7 Responsibility Matrices
4.8 Project Communication Plan
Summary

Chapter 5 Estimating Project Times and Costs

5.1 Factors Influencing the Quality of Estimates
- Planning Horizon
- Project Complexity
- People
- Project Structure and Organization
- Padding Estimates
- Organization Culture
- Other Factors
5.2 Estimating Guidelines for Times, Costs, and Resources
5.3 Top-Down versus Bottom-Up Estimating
5.4 Methods for Estimating Project Times and Costs
- Top-Down Approaches for Estimating Project Times and Costs
- Bottom-Up Approaches for Estimating Project Times and Costs
- A Hybrid: Phase Estimating
5.5 Level of Detail
5.6 Types of Costs
- Direct Costs
- Direct Project Overhead Costs
- General and Administrative (G&A) Overhead Costs
5.7 Refining Estimates
5.8 Creating a Database for Estimating
5.9 Mega Projects: A Special Case
Summary
Appendix 5.1: Learning Curves for Estimating

Chapter 6 Developing a Project Plan

6.1 Developing the Project Network
6.2 From Work Package to Network
6.3 Constructing a Project Network
- Terminology
- Basic Rules to Follow in Developing Project Networks
6.4 Activity-on-Node (AON) Fundamentals
6.5 Network Computation Process
- Forward Pass-Earliest Times
- Backward Pass-Latest Times
- Determining Slack (or Float)
6.6 Using the Forward and Backward Pass Information
6.7 Level of Detail for Activities
6.8 Practical Considerations
- Network Logic Errors
- Activity Numbering
- Use of Computers to Develop Networks
- Calendar Dates
- Multiple Starts and Multiple Projects
6.9 Extended Network Techniques to Come Closer to Reality
- Laddering
- Use of Lags to Reduce Schedule Detail and Project Duration
- An Example Using Lag Relationships-The Forward and Backward Pass
- Hammock Activities
Summary

Chapter 7 Managing Risk

7.1 Risk Management Process
7.2 Step 1: Risk Identification
7.3 Step 2: Risk Assessment
- Probability Analysis
7.4 Step 3: Risk Response Development
- Mitigating Risk
- Avoiding Risk
- Transferring Risk
- Accept Risk
7.5 Contingency Planning
- Technical Risks
- Schedule Risks
- Cost Risks
- Funding Risks
7.6 Opportunity Management
7.7 Contingency Funding and Time Buffers
- Budget Reserves
- Management Reserves
- Time Buffers
7.8 Step 4: Risk Response Control
7.9 Change Control Management
Summary
Appendix 7.1: PERT and PERT Simulation

Chapter 8 Scheduling Resources and Costs

8.1 Overview of the Resource Scheduling Problem
8.2 Types of Resource Constraints
8.3 Classification of a Scheduling Problem
8.4 Resource Allocation Methods
- Assumptions
- Time-Constrained Project: Smoothing Resource Demand
- Resource-Constrained Projects
8.5 Computer Demonstration of Resource-Constrained Scheduling
- The Impacts of Resource-Constrained Scheduling
8.6 Splitting Activities
8.7 Benefits of Scheduling Resources
8.8 Assigning Project Work
8.9 Multiproject Resource Schedules
8.10 Using the Resource Schedule to Develop a Project Cost Baseline
- Why a Time-Phased Budget Baseline Is Needed
- Creating a Time-Phased Budget
Summary
Appendix 8.1: The Critical-Chain Approach

Chapter 9 Reducing Project Duration

9.1 Rationale for Reducing Project Duration
9.2 Options for Accelerating Project Completion
- Options When Resources Are Not Constrained
- Options When Resources Are Constrained
9.3 Project Cost-Duration Graph
- Explanation of Project Costs
9.4 Constructing a Project Cost-Duration Graph
- Determining the Activities to Shorten
- A Simplified Example
9.5 Practical Considerations
- Using the Project Cost-Duration Graph
- Crash Times
- Linearity Assumption
- Choice of Activities to Crash Revisited
- Time Reduction Decisions and Sensitivity
?9.6 What If Cost, Not Time, Is the Issue?
- Reduce Project Scope
- Have Owner Take on More Responsibility
- Outsourcing Project Activities or Even the Entire Project
- Brainstorming Cost Savings Options
Summary

Chapter 10 Being an Effective Project Manager

10.1 Managing versus Leading a Project
10.2 Managing Project Stakeholders
10.3 Influence as Exchange
- Task-Related Currencies
- Position-Related Currencies
- Inspiration-Related Currencies
- Relationship-Related Currencies
- Personal-Related Currencies
10.4 Social Network Building
- Mapping Stakeholder Dependencies
- Management by Wandering Around (MBWA)
- Managing Upward Relations
- Leading by Example
10.5 Ethics and Project Management
10.6 Building Trust: The Key to Exercising Influence
10.7 Qualities of an Effective Project Manager
Summary

Chapter 11 Managing Project Teams

11.1 The Five-Stage Team Development Model
11.2 Situational Factors Affecting Team Development
11.3 Building High-Performance Project Teams
- Recruiting Project Members
- Conducting Project Meetings
- Establishing Team Norms
- Establishing a Team Identity
- Creating a Shared Vision
- Managing Project Reward Systems
- Orchestrating the Decision-Making Process
- Managing Conflict within the Project
- Rejuvenating the Project Team
11.4 Managing Virtual Project Teams
11.5 Project Team Pitfalls
- Groupthink
- Bureaucratic Bypass Syndrome
- Team Spirit Becomes Team Infatuation
- Going Native
Summary

Chapter 12 Outsourcing: Managing Interorganizational Relations

12.1 Outsourcing Project Work
12.2 Request for Proposal (RFP)
- Selection of Contractor from Bid Proposals
12.3 Best Practices in Outsourcing Project Work
- Well-Defined Requirements and Procedures
- Extensive Training and Team-Building Activities
- Well-Established Conflict Management Processes in Place
- Frequent Review and Status Updates
- Co-Location When Needed
- Fair and Incentive-Laden Contracts
- Long-Term Outsourcing Relationships
12.4 The Art of Negotiating
- 1. Separate the People from the Problem
- 2. Focus on Interests, Not Positions
- 3. Invent Options for Mutual Gain
- 4. When Possible, Use Objective Criteria
- Dealing with Unreasonable People
12.5 A Note on Managing Customer Relations
Summary
Appendix 12.1: Contract Management

Chapter 13 Progress and Performance Measurement and Evaluation

13.1 Structure of a Project Monitoring Information System
- What Data Are Collected?
- Collecting Data and Analysis
- Reports and Reporting
13.2 The Project Control Process
- Step 1: Setting a Baseline Plan
- Step 2: Measuring Progress and Performance
- Step 3: Comparing Plan against Actual
- Step 4: Taking Action
13.3 Monitoring Time Performance
- Tracking Gantt Chart
- Control Chart
- Milestone Schedules
13.4 Development of an Earned Value Cost/Schedule System
- Percent Complete Rule
- What Costs Are Included in Baselines?
- Methods of Variance Analysis
13.5 Developing a Status Report: A Hypothetical Example
- Assumptions
- Baseline Development
- Development of the Status Report
13.6 Indexes to Monitor Progress
- Performance Indexes
- Project Percent Complete Indexes
- Software for Project Cost/Schedule Systems
- Additional Earned Value Rules
13.7 Forecasting Final Project Cost
13.8 Other Control Issues
- Technical Performance Measurement
- Scope Creep
- Baseline Changes
- The Costs and Problems of Data Acquisition
Summary
Appendix 13.1: The Application of Additional Earned Value Rules
Appendix 13.2: Obtaining Project Performance Information from MS Project 2010 or 2015

Chapter 14 Project Closure

14.1 Types of Project Closure
14.2 Wrap-up Closure Activities
14.3 Project Audits
- The Project Audit Process
- Project Retrospectives
- Project Audits: The Bigger Picture
14.4 Post-Implementation Evaluation
- Team Evaluation
- Individual, Team Member, and Project Manager Performance Reviews
Summary
Appendix 14.1: Project Closeout Checklist
Appendix 14.2: Euro Conversion-Project Closure Checklist

Chapter 15 International Projects

15.1 Environmental Factors
- Legal/Political
- Security
- Geography
- Economic
- Infrastructure
- Culture
15.2 Project Site Selection
15.3 Cross-Cultural Considerations: A Closer Look
- Adjustments
- Working in Mexico
- Working in France
- Working in Saudi Arabia
- Working in China
- Working in the United States
- Summary Comments about Working in Different Cultures
- Culture Shock
- Coping with Culture Shock
15.4 Selection and Training for International Projects
Summary

Chapter 16 An Introduction to Agile Project Management

16.1 Traditional versus Agile Methods
16.2 Agile PM
16.3 Agile PM in Action: Scrum
- Roles and Responsibilities
- Scrum Meetings
- Product and Sprint Backlogs
- Sprint and Release Burndown Charts
16.4 Applying Agile PM to Large Projects
16.5 Limitations and Concerns
Summary

Appendix One: Solutions to Selected Exercise

Appendix Two: Computer Pro-ject Exercises

Glossary

Acronyms

Project Management Equations

Cross Reference of Project Management

Socio-Technical Approach to Project Management

Index