- Copyright
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- About the Authors
- The IPM Project Manager
- Introduction
- Leadership of a Project Team
- The Definition of IPM Leadership
- Motivation
- Communication Skills
- Collaborative Leadership
- Conflict Resolution and Consensus Decisions
- Shared Leadership
- Establishment of the Internal Customer Philosophy
- Project Managers as Trainers and Teachers
- Negotiation Skills
- The Ability to Maintain Order and Discipline
- The Project Diary
- Summary
- Discussion Questions
- Exercises
- The Project, the Statement of Work, and the Specification
- Introduction
- The Definition of a Project
- Project Feasibility
- The Birth of a Project
- The Project Sponsor
- Project Hazards
- The Daily Life of a Project Manager
- Assessment of the Problem
- Emergency Project Shutdown
- Documentation of Project Decisions for Project Approval
- A Case Study
- The Specification and the Statement of Work
- Development of the Project Specification
- The Project Specification
- Examples of Project Specifications
- Customer and Sponsor Start-Up Expectations
- Project Management Alternatives
- Summary
- Discussion Questions
- Project Work Breakdown Structure and Team Recruitment
- The Kickoff Meeting
- The Project Task List
- Introduction
- Preparations for the First Project Task List Meeting
- The Affinity Diagram
- The First Project Task List Meeting: Using the Affinity Diagram to Create the Task List
- A Discussion of Work Breakdown
- Reasons for Work Breakdown
- Affinity Diagram Bonuses
- The Final Project Task List Meeting
- Summary
- Discussion Questions
- Creating The Project Gantt Chart
- Introduction
- Gantt Chart Basics
- Preparation for Creating the Gantt Chart
- Good Project Task Estimates
- Utilization of a Computer And Project Management Software to Help Complete the Gantt Chart
- The Project Gantt Chart Tasks
- A Very Simple Gantt Chart Example
- Acquisition of the Support of the Resource Managers
- Resource Negotiations: A Communication Scenario
- Preparation for Risk Analysis
- Pre-Organization of Computer Data for the Project Gantt Chart
- The Large Basic Project Gantt Chart
- Gantt Chart Utilities
- Special Uses for Gantt Charts
- Summary
- Discussion Questions
- Critical Path
- Risk Analysis Basics—Time Buffer Calculations
- Introduction
- Project Team Meetings
- Why Risk Analysis is Necessary
- The History of Risk Analysis
- Risk Analysis
- Task Duration Basics
- An Imaginary Experiment
- Data for Risk Analysis
- Case Example
- Application of the Risk Data
- The Psychological Impact of Risk Analysis
- Documentation of the Risk Data
- Application of the Risk Analysis
- The Risk Factor
- Summary
- Discussion Questions
- Risk Analysis Details
- Budget and Cost
- Project Plan Review
- Project Execution
- Introduction
- Notes on the Project Launch
- The Project Launch Meeting
- Project Management
- The Operations Gantt Chart
- Walk-About Management and Communications
- Discipline and Order
- Milestones and Project Reviews
- The Reasons Behind Milestone Meetings
- Movement Toward Completion
- Summary
- Discussion Questions
- Project Change
- Achieving Closure
- On Being an IPM Team Member
- Basic Projects, Major Projects, and Macro Projects
- Glossary
Movement Toward Completion
By using an updated operations Gantt chart as an ever-present reference, walk-about management, milestone meetings, and an open door policy, a project manager can move a project toward the time when the team can clearly, unequivocally, and measurably demonstrate that they have met the projects objectives.
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