Project Management Best Practices: Achieving Global Excellence - Hardcover

Kerzner, Harold

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 111946885X ISBN 13: 9781119468851

Publisher: Wiley, 2018

Synopsis

The comprehensive guide to project management implementation, updated with the latest in the field

Project management has spread beyond the IT world to become a critical part of business in every sphere; built on efficiency, analysis, and codified practice, professional project management leads to the sort of reproducible results and reliable processes that make a business successful. Project Management Best Practices provides implementation guidance for every phase of a project, based on the real-world methodologies from leading companies around the globe. Updated to align with the industry’s latest best practices, this new Fourth Edition includes new discussion on Agile and Scrum, tradeoffs and constraints, Portfolio PMO   tools, and much more.

• Get up-to-date information on the latest best practices that add value at every level of an organization
• Gain insight from more than 50 project managers at world-class organizations including Airbus, Heineken, RTA, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Sony, Cisco, Nokia, and more
• Delve deeper into implementation guidance for Agile, Scrum, and Six Sigma
• Explore more efficient methodologies, training, measurement, and metrics that boost organization-wide performance
• Adopt new approaches to culture and behavioral excellence, including conflict resolution, situational leadership, proactive management, staffing, and more

Ideal for both college and corporate training, this book is accompanied by an Instructor’s Manual and PowerPoint lecture slides that bring project management concepts right into the classroom. As the field continues to grow and evolve, it becomes increasingly important to stay current with new and established practices; this book provides comprehensive guidance on every aspect of project management, with invaluable real-world insight from leaders in the field.

About this title

From the Back Cover

Best practices in the global market for successful project management

Project Management Best Practices: Achieving Global Excellence presents unique, firsthand accounts of how corporations around the world incorporate project management into their strategic business operations. This book is the global-perspective follow-up to Kerzner's bestselling Advanced Project Management: Best Practices on Implementation, Second Edition (0-471-47284-0).

Senior management from more than fifty global Fortune 500 companies--such as Computer Associates, Motorola, Johnson Controls, Nortel, Satyam, and Infosys--present their best practices in project management, including new and previously unpublished material. These industry leaders offer insight into best practices for: Project risk management Project management for multinational cultures and cultural failures Integrated and virtual project teams

Project Management Best Practices: Achieving Global Excellence is a must-have resource for competitive corporate managers, project and team managers, engineers, project team members, and business consultants in today's global market.

About the Author

HAROLD KERZNER, Ph.D., is Senior Executive Director for Project Management at the International Institute for Learning, Inc. (IIL), a global learning solutions company offering professional training and consulting services worldwide. Dr. Kerzner's profound effect on the project management industry inspired IIL to establish, in coordination with PMI, the Kerzner International Project Manager of the Year Award, which is presented to a distinguished PMP® or global equivalent each year.

INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR LEARNING, INC. (IIL) is a global leader in professional training and comprehensive consulting services in the areas of project, program, and portfolio management, PRINCE2®, ITIL, Business Analysis, Microsoft® Office Project and Project Server, and Lean Six Sigma. IIL is an IIBA-endorsed education provider, a PMI® charter global registered education provider, and a member of PMI's Silver Alliance Circle and their Corporate Council.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 111946885X
• ISBN 13: 9781119468851
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 784