Creating an Environment for Successful Projects: The Quest to Manage Project Management (Jossey-Bass Business & Management) - Hardcover

Graham, Robert J.; Englund, Randall L.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0787903590 ISBN 13: 9780787903596

Publisher: Jossey-Bass, 1997

Synopsis

Ensure the success of your company's special projects

Crisp execution of projects is critical to the survival of today's organizations. This practical book is filled with ideas and examples that will teach you how to build project management competence in your organization.

--Lewis E. Platt, chairman, president and CEO, Hewlett-Packard Company

Finally, a book that fills the void on how to develop project management as an organizational practice. Using the enviable processes already in place at Hewlett-Packard and other progressive companies as touchstones, Graham and Englund serve up solid, results-oriented advice on how upper management can create an environment that supports the success of special projects, especially the development of new products. Building on an incisive examination of the critical role upper-tier management plays in the overall success of projects, the authors show managers exactly what they must do to support the process and implement project management as an organization-wide directive. Packed with leading-edge, real-world examples, a sample project review and other tools, this book will help your organization make and sustain the cultural changes that encourage a project manager's best work.

About this title

About the Author

ROBERT J. GRAHAM is an indepAndent management consultant and senior associate with the Strategic Management Group. He is on the adjunct faculty at the University of Pennsylvania and is associate professor of the Project Management Unit at Henley Management College in Henley, England and the author of Project Management As If People Mattered. RANDALL L. ENGLUND is a project manager at Hewlett-Packard Company and a consultant on the Project Management Initiative team that provides corporate-wide leadership for the continuous improvement of project management. He is a member of the Project Management Institute and is on the Board of Directors for the Product Development and Management Association.

From the Back Cover

Finally, a book that fills the void on how to develop project management as an organizational practice. Using the enviable processes already in place at Hewlett-Packard and other progressive companies as touchstones, Graham and Englund serve up solid, results-oriented advice on how upper management can create an environment that supports the success of special projects, especially the development of new products. Building on an incisive examination of the critical role upper-tier management plays in the overall success of projects, the authors show managers exactly what they must do to support the process and implement project management as an organization-wide directive. Packed with leading-edge, real-world examples, a sample project review and other tools, this book will help your organization make and sustain the cultural changes that encourage a project manager's best work.

From the Inside Flap

Critical to the continued growth of any organization is the development of new products, new procedures, new reward systems, new features to old products, and new businesses. The very future of a company rides on the success or failure of its project management process.In Creating an Environment for Successful Projects, Robert J. Graham and Randall L. Englund zero in on the key to successful product innovation and development?the creation of the project-based organization. This hands-on resource offers managers the cutting-edge information and effective tools they need to support and sustain the project management climate that is so vital to organizational growth.Filled with illustrative examples from such thriving firms as Hewlett-Packard and General Electric, Creating an Environment for Successful Projects outlines exactly what key managers need to do to support successful projects within their own organizations no matter how large or small. Graham and Englund offer vital information on topics that cover the broad scope of managing project management, including how to:? Set a project deadline and allow time for planning and creativity? Avoid common pitfalls such as pulling people off of core teams? Select the right person for the crucial role of project manager? Implement an original approach to information systems within the organization? Learn from past projects by using the book's Project Retrospective Form? Implement the highly successful Hewlett-Packard project management initiative process in the organization.Throughout this information-packed book, the authors maintain a personal and often humorous approach to the serious business of successfully managing project management.

Edition details

• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0787903590
• ISBN 13: 9780787903596
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272