Managing Projects in Organizations: How to Make the Best Use of Time, Techniques, and People (Jossey Bass Business & Management Series) - Hardcover

Frame, J. Davidson

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0787901601 ISBN 13: 9780787901608

Publisher: Jossey-Bass Inc Pub, 1995

Synopsis

Sound advice for product, engineering, and service-based oganizations

Unlike other project management books that focus on engineering and manufacturing settings alone, this resource encompasses product, engineering, and service-based organizations. Plus, it covers important new developments in software, outsourcing, quality, and related issues. Much more than a mere checklist of techniques, Managing Projects in Organizations provides you with a sound, overall methodology for dealing with information-age projects. You get advice on overcoming problems at the organizational, team and individual levels, managing human resources, selecting the best team structure, identifying customer needs, defining project requirements, and managing the inevitable politics every project presents, plus much, much more!

About this title

From the Publisher

"Frame has a deep understanding of the systemic nature of project management."
-- Quality Progress

"The New Project Management examines the new realities of project management: managing risk, maintaining quality of goods and services, outsourcing, satisfying customers, and communicating effectively with managers, customers, vendors, and staff."
-- PM Network

"An excellent book I'd recommend is Managing Projects in Organizations by J. Davidson Frame. . . . can help you put your project management skills on track."-- Microsoft Certified Professional Magazine

"Provides an excellent overview of the fundamental concepts of project management."
-- Public Productivity Management Review

From the Back Cover

Since the first edition of Managing Projects in Organizations was published in 1987, projects have increasingly become an organizational building block as companies have downsized and horizontalized as well as initiated use of teams as a means to greater productivity and empowerment. Project management has been adopted for use in more service and light industry settings, and project-management skills have become more in demand for general managers. The first edition of Managing Projects in Organizations has become the thinking manager's guide to project management: a balanced, conversational presentation of the full range of project management issues aimed at people with management--but not necessarily project management--experience.

In this revised second edition of Managing Projects in Organizations, J. Davidson Frame presents a readable, accessible presentation of project management principles. Unlike many other books in project management that focus on engineering and manufacturing settings, this second edition now encompasses product, engineering, and service-based organizations and has also been updated to cover developments in software, outsourcing, quality, and related issues.

Edition details

• Publisher: Jossey-Bass Inc Pub
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0787901601
• ISBN 13: 9780787901608
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 247