Project Benefits Management: Linking projects to the Business - Softcover

Melton, Trish; Yates, Jim; Iles-Smith, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0750684771 ISBN 13: 9780750684774

Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann, 2008

Synopsis

Successful projects are the basis for the business many successful organisations, but many professionals lack the basic skills required to manage projects successfully. This book shows how to maximise the outcomes of projects and to ensure that the benefits arising from projects -- large or small -- are fully realized by the business. This key outcome can be easily overlooked or sidelined by the need to keep projects on track. Visually lead, to the point, with case studies and best practice guidelines throughout, the hard-won real world experience found in this book makes it a powerful PM resource for anyone involved in project management.

• Links project management to business goals for career project managers and those involved with project intermittently
• Focuses on the needs of engineering, industrial and process projects

About this title

About the Author

Director of MIME Solutions Ltd, a UK-based PM Consultancy. She has worked for organizations including AstraZeneca, GSK, and Eli Lilly, and has clients in the UK and US.

From the Back Cover

Maximise the impact of projects: choose the ‘right’ project and realize the ‘right’ benefits for your businessA practical handbook for career project managers and those involved intermittently with projects throughout their career.Brief and visually led, Project Benefits Management gets to the point, giving you the knowledge and confidence to manage project benefits and increase the certainty of success.Focused on the needs of engineering and technical Project Managers, but generic enough to support projects in other areas such as business change, IT and product development.Comprehensive real world case studies demonstrate the use of tools.Project benefits management is the business process which links the start of a project to the end. This book shows how to manage the process as a core part of a project. Provides expert advice, tried-and-tested techniques and a benefits management toolkit to address the entire benefits lifecycle:

Benefits Concept

Benefits Specification

Benefits RealizationProject Benefits Management focuses on maintaining a link between your project and the business. It asks: Why are we doing the project? Have we realized the benefits? It is the second of four titles that separately build skills and together provide a powerful project management resource.Dr. Trish Melton is the Managing Director of MIME Solutions Ltd, a UK based Project Management Consultancy. She has worked with organizations including AstraZeneca and GSK, and operates globally for clients in both manufacturing and service sectors.Peter Iles-Smith has 20 years in manufacturing automation projects in the oil and gas, chemical and pharmaceutical industries from both the vendor and user perspective.Jim Yates has over 30 years experience in project development and currently runs his own management consultancy, Fulcrum Management Ltd.

Edition details

• Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0750684771
• ISBN 13: 9780750684774
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240