Communicating Project Management: The Integrated Vocabulary of Project Management and Systems Engineering - Softcover

Mooz, Hal; Forsberg, Kevin; Cotterman, Howard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0471269247 ISBN 13: 9780471269243

Publisher: Wiley, 2002

Synopsis

This integrated dictionary includes almost 2,000 terms in both project management and system engineering and software engineering by extension defined in a way that seamlessly integrates these overlapping and intertwined fields. Supported by illustrations and explanations that offer a practical context for the terminology, this one-of-a-kind resource bridges the gap between the separate vocabularies of these intersecting disciplines. Far more than a dictionary, this book includes reference sections that address the special problems of and techniques for communicating in the project environment.

About this title

About the Author

HAL MOOZ, PMP, is coprincipal and cofounder of CSM, the Center for Systems Management, in Tiburon, California, and has twenty years' experience consulting to government and private organizations, including AT&T, NASA, Bell Labs, GTE, and numerous others. He has developed leading university and industry project management training programs and trained over 10,000 high-technology project managers. He is a recipient of the CIA Seal Medallion and the INCOSE Pioneer Award.

KEVIN FORSBERG, PhD, is coprincipal and cofounder of CSM, which provides project management services to an international client list that includes the CIA, NASA, TRW, and Lockheed-Martin. Dr. Forsberg has over forty years' experience in the project management environment and has received numerous awards, including the NASA Public Service Medal, the CIA Seal Medallion, and the INCOSE Pioneer Award.

HOWARD COTTERMAN is an officer and board member of CSM. A founder of Cognitive Corporation with over three decades of project management experience, Cotterman developed IBM's first microprocessor in the mid-1960s and has also managed development and manufacturing projects at NCR, Intel, and Rockwell International.

From the Back Cover

Praise for Communicating Project Management: The Integrated Vocabulary of Project Management and Systems Engineering

"I have long felt that communication should receive more profound attention in the project management literature. Indeed, as the authors stated in their earlier book Visualizing Project Management, ‘To succeed at project management, you first have to communicate clearly.’ This new book will be a valuable addition to the library of any practitioner working in, or contemplating working in, the systems and software engineering project application area. The authors must be congratulated on filling a long outstanding need."
–Max Wideman, FCSCE, FEIC, FICE, PMI Fellow and Past President

"Communicating Project Management is an excellent resource for all engineers and program managers. In addition to the hundreds of helpful definitions, it provides a wonderful overview of the problems associated with communication, highlighting those human characteristics that often hinder a project’s success. The authors also explore the seldom discussed but critical concept of control gates, which unites systems engineering and project management. This book discussion should spur further study of decision-making and communications with respect to control gates. A welcome resource!"
–Dr. Dennis Buede, Director of Graduate Systems Engineering Programs at the Stevens Institute of Technology

"At last, a book that will tear down the silos between project managers, systems engineers, and finance professionals! Communicating Project Management is a perfect point of departure for clearing up miscommunication. It should be assigned reading for everyone involved in project work–before launch–to have a shared vision of what’s to be accomplished."
–Bernard G. Morais, Cofounder of INCOSE and President of Synergistic Applications, Inc.

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From the Inside Flap

In their book Visualizing Project Management, authors Hal Mooz, Kevin Forsberg, and Howard Cotterman set the standard for effective project management, introducing effective models that have since been adopted by hundreds of leading governmental and private organizations.

Now, in Communicating Project Management, they present an integrated dictionary that includes nearly 2,000 terms in project management and systems engineering–and software engineering by extension–defined in a way that seamlessly integrates these overlapping and intertwined fields. Supported by illustrations and explanations that offer a practical context for the terminology, this one-of-a-kind resource bridges the gap between the separate vocabularies of these intersecting disciplines. Far more than a dictionary, this book includes reference sections that address the special problems of and techniques for communicating in the project environment.

The authors’ multidisciplinary approach is further supported by three helpful forewords by the leaders of three prominent professional standards organizations. These commentaries–by William R. Duncan of the American Society for the Advancement of Project Management, Heinz Stoewer of the International Council on Systems Engineering, and Stephen Cross of the Software Engineering Institute–explain how all three of their fields can effectively utilize a unified lexicon.

Though treated and taught separately by most learning institutions, business reality suggests that project management, systems engineering, and software engineering will become further amalgamated. Communicating Project Management lets professionals in all three disciplines communicate effectively with each other, allowing more and better collaboration in the increasingly vital field of project management.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0471269247
• ISBN 13: 9780471269243
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 384