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PROJECT MANAGEMENT BEST PRACTICES PROJECT MANAGEMENT BEST PRACTICES Achieving Global Excellence S E COND EDITION HAROLD KERZNER, PH D John Wiley & Sons, Inc This book is printed on acid-free paper Copyright © 2010 by International Institute for Learning, Inc., New York, New York All rights reserved Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey Published simultaneously in Canada No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning, or otherwise, except as permitted under Section 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States Copyright Act, without either the prior written permission of the Publisher, or authorization through payment of the appropriate per-copy fee to the Copyright Clearance Center, Inc., 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923, (978) 750-8400, fax (978) 750-4470, or on the web at www copyright.com Requests to the Publisher for permission should 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showed me that excellence can be achieved in marriage, family, and life as well as at work Contents Preface xv International Institute for Learning, Inc (IIL) UNDERSTANDING BEST PRACTICES 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 1.16 1.17 1.18 1.19 1.20 xix Introduction Project Management Best Practices: 1945–1960 Project Management Best Practices: 1960–1985 Project Management Best Practices: 1985–2010 An Executive’s View of Project Management 11 Best Practices Process 16 Step 1: Definition of a Best Practice 18 Step 2: Seeking Out Best Practices 23 Dashboards and Scorecards 36 Key Performance Indicators 39 Step 3: Validating the Best Practice 44 Step 4: Levels of Best Practices 46 Step 5: Management of Best Practices 48 Step 6: Revalidating Best Practices 49 Step 7: What to Do with a Best Practice 50 Step 8: Communicating Best Practices across the Company 51 Step 9: Ensuring Usage of the Best Practices 53 Common Beliefs 54 Best Practices Library 55 DTE Energy 58 A Consultant’s View of Project Management and Best Practices 60 vii viii CONTENTS FROM BEST PRACTICE TO MIGRAINE HEADACHE 67 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Introduction 67 Good Intentions Becoming Migraines 67 Enterprise Project Management Methodology Migraine 68 Customer Satisfaction Migraine 69 Migraine Resulting from Responding to Changing Customer Requirements 70 2.5 Reporting Level of PMO Migraine 71 2.6 Cash Flow Dilemma Migraine 71 2.7 Scope Change Dilemma Migraine 72 2.8 Outsource or Not Migraine 73 2.9 Migraine of Determining When to Cancel a Project 73 2.10 Migraine of Providing Project Awards 74 2.11 Migraine from Having Wrong Culture in Place 75 2.12 Sources of Smaller Migraines 76 2.13 Ten Uglies of Projects 79 References 88 JOURNEY TO EXCELLENCE 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14 3.15 3.16 3.17 3.18 3.19 89 Introduction 89 The Light at the End of the Tunnel 91 Managing Assumptions 94 Managing Assumptions in Conservation Projects—WWF International 95 Project Governance 99 Seven Fallacies That Delay Project Management Maturity Motorola 103 Texas Instruments 104 EDS 106 Exel Corporation 108 Hewlett-Packard 118 DTE Energy 120 Comau 121 Visteon 130 Convergent Computing 138 Avalon Power and Light 140 Roadway 141 Defcon Corporation 142 Kombs Engineering 144 Williams Machine Tool Company 145 100 ... 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