Contextualization Of Project Management Practice And Best Practice

Author : Claude Besner
Publisher : Project Management Institute
ISBN 13 : 1628250100
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contextualization of Project Management Practice and Best Practice written by Claude Besner and published by Project Management Institute. This book was released on 2012-07-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contextualization of Project Management Practice and Best Practice contributes to a better understanding of project management practice by investigating the use and usefulness of project management practices, tools, and techniques. The study examines practice variations among organizational, project management, and project contexts and performance. The use of project management practices, tools, and techniques is seen here as an indicator of the realities of practice. A clear understanding of the state of professional practice is particularly important to future development in the field of project management. Directly observing what project practitioners do and how they put into action their knowledge and competencies is a means to understand their practice.

Author : Claude Besner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 18 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contextualized Project Management Practice written by Claude Besner and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The specificity of project management in different contexts and industries is recognized, but little empirical research encompasses a sufficiently broad range of contexts and project types to precisely identify these specificities. This paper adopts a wide perspective based on a large sample of data from an ongoing empirical investigation of project management practice. It includes a literature review that provides examples of research that validates the idea of the contextual variability of practice and provides examples of how practice varies in different contexts. Contextual archetypes are identified (i.e., clusters of experienced practitioners that share similar organizational and project contexts). Archetypes of contextualized practice are then investigated through the study of the extent of use of empirically identified toolsets in each cluster. The results empirically identified toolsets in each cluster and empirically confirm some well-known assumptions about practice but also sharpen the knowledge and understanding of practice in real complex multidimensional contexts. A new concept of "performing-maturity" emerged from the data, which is detailed in this paper. This concept sheds light on the entangled imbrications of maturity, competence, and success. Practices are regressed against performing-maturity to reveal best contextualized practices.

Author : Beverly Pasian
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040014240
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Design Methods and Practices for Research of Project Management written by Beverly Pasian and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-05-23 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Design Methods and Practices for Research of Project Management is the most comprehensive guide on how to do research on and in project management. Project management as a discipline has experienced near-exponential growth in its application across the business and not-for-profit sectors. This second edition of the authoritative reference book offers a substantial update on the first edition with over 60% new content and so provides both practitioner and student researchers with a fully up-to-date and complete guide to research practice on project management. In Design Methods and Practices for Research of Project Management, Beverly Pasian and Rodney Turner have brought together 26 original chapters from many of the leading international thinkers in project management research. The collection looks at each step in the research stages, including research strategy, management, methodology (quantitative and qualitative), and techniques as well as how to share and publish research findings. The chapters offer an international perspective with examples from a wide range of project management applications; engineering, construction, megaprojects, high-risk environments, and social transformation. Each chapter includes tips and exercises for the research student, as well as a complete set of further references. The book is the go-to text for practitioners undertaking research in companies, and also doctoral and master’s students and their supervisors who are involved in research projects in and for universities.

Author : Darren Dalcher
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351625624
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Evolution of Project Management Practice written by Darren Dalcher and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-13 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Richard Newton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1137143142
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Practice and Theory of Project Management written by Richard Newton and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Managing projects, a prominent feature of working life, inevitably involves change at some level. Even though successful project management depends on organisational change, textbooks often fail to recognise this symbiotic nature. This book offers students a practical understanding of the strategic and organisational role of projects.

Author : François Chiocchio
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199861374
Total Pages : 553 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Psychology and Management of Project Teams written by François Chiocchio and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even though project-management researchers have become increasingly interested in factors that may have an impact on project-management effectiveness, their efforts fall short of addressing the "human factor." And, unfortunately, many project-management scholars are largely unaware of the I/O psychology literature--relying, for example, on outdated models of motivation and team development. On the other side, I/O psychologists who research groups and teams often ignore the contextual influences--such as business sector, project type, placement in the organizational hierarchy, and project phase and maturity--that have a crucial impact on how a project will unfold. In this volume, a cross-disciplinary set of editors will bring together perspectives from leading I/O psychology and project-management scholars.

Author : Alexander Laufer
Publisher : FT Press
ISBN 13 : 0132620367
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mastering the Leadership Role in Project Management written by Alexander Laufer and published by FT Press. This book was released on 2012-04-23 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, project management expert Dr. Alexander Laufer leads an all-star team of practitioners and thought leaders in presenting a powerful project leadership framework. Laufer’s framework addresses the toughest challenges of new product development: large, complex projects composed of many diverse, geographically distributed, and highly interdependent components; organizational change; and repeated and risky tasks. Laufer reveals core leadership principles that are crucial to successful project leadership in dynamic and complex environments, regardless of industry, project goals, or stakeholders. Then, together with his contributors, he presents eight chapter-length case studies covering exceptionally challenging projects in a wide spectrum of industries and products – from developing missiles to reorganizing companies, building spacecraft and dairy plants to flying solar-powered airplanes. Readers will discover new ways to unleash the power of autonomy and learning; adapt to change on a timely basis; “give up” control without “losing” control; use face-to-face interaction to maximize alignment; manage “no fun” missions in hostile environments; deliver on bold ideas through sheer preparation; learn from practice – and unlearn lessons that need to be unlearned. Mastering the Leadership Role in Project Management will be invaluable to executives, project leaders, and aspiring project leaders in all organizations – regardless of their project goals, backgrounds, or experience.

Author : Stansfield, Mark
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 160566359X
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Institutional Transformation through Best Practices in Virtual Campus Development: Advancing E-Learning Policies written by Stansfield, Mark and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2009-05-31 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides cost effective and sustainable learning procedures vital to ensuring long term success for both teacher and student; covers the latest research and findings in relation to best practice examples and case studies.

Author : Peter Van Bogaert
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319710427
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Organizational Context of Nursing Practice written by Peter Van Bogaert and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-02-13 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the various features of work environments that affect nurses' experiences of their work, their interactions with co-workers and patients, and ultimately health care quality and patient outcomes. Using a broad and comprehensive approach, the authors identify the most extensively researched and best-understood concepts in the field and presents a critical and up-to-date review of the evidence regarding causes and effects of work environment features. It then presents evidence regarding organizational interventions aimed at broad ranges of clinical practices and outcomes, such as team-based interventions and management practices to improve practice climate. The ideas, approaches, and evidence are presented by a team of researchers and experienced practitioner/leaders; taken together, they form a state-of-the-science toolkit. Unique features of this book include a systematic presentation of best practices in nursing and healthcare leadership, along with the conceptual grounding and empirical support for these approaches, and extensive demonstrations of how these practices, many of which originated in North America, apply to European contexts.

Author : Harold Kerzner
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 111800034X
Total Pages : 748 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Project Management - Best Practices written by Harold Kerzner and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-11-04 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From senior executives across the globe, insights for successful project management implementation The bestselling first edition of Project Management Best Practices: Achieving Global Excellence set the course for project managers navigating the increasingly challenging task of working within global corporations and with distant and diverse work teams. This new edition carries that tradition to the next step, presenting a new set of firsthand accounts of how corporations around the world incorporate project management into their strategic business operations. In this Second Edition, senior managers of more than fifty global companies—both large (Fortune 500) and small, and in all sectors of the market—share their best practices in project management. These industry leaders offer insight into best practices for: Project risk management Project management for multinational cultures and cultural failures Focusing on value as well as cost and schedule Integrated and virtual project teams With new and updated information on the latest developments in the field, Project Management Best Practices: Achieving Global Excellence, Second Edition offers a must-have window onto the issues—and their real-world solutions—facing corporate managers, project and team managers, engineers, project team members, and business consultants in today's global market.