The Project Management Book

Table of contents

1. Cover
2. Title Page
3. Contents
4. About the author
5. Preface
6. Introduction
7. Part 1 The foundations
   1. Projects
   2. Project management
   3. The role of the project manager
   4. Customers, clients and users
8. Part 2 Setting up your project
   1. Defining your project
   2. Objectives, deliverables and tasks
   3. Building a plan
   4. Estimating and resourcing
9. Part 3 Utilising the team, sponsor and stakeholders
   1. The high-performance project team
   2. Global and offshore teams
   3. The effective sponsor
   4. A productive stakeholder community
10. Part 4 Delivering the project
    1. Managing progress: perform, deliver, accomplish
    2. What project managers need to know
    3. Understanding project risk
    4. Value-added project reporting
11. Part 5 Practical project management
    1. Making risk management real
    2. The temptations and costs of multi-tasking
    3. The right and wrong uses of the plan on a page
    4. Audit, assure, control or coach the project?
12. Part 6 The project environment
    1. Prioritisation
    2. The culture of delivery
    3. The limits to planning and prediction
    4. Dealing with external problems
13. Part 7 Integrated project management
    1. The strengths and limits of project management
    2. Bridging the divide: project and change managers
    3. From delivery to benefits realisation
    4. The lessons from lean and six sigma
14. Part 8 Aligning projects to business needs
    1. High-speed project management
    2. Delivering in a cost-constrained environment
    3. Optionality in projects
    4. Who has a valid interest in the project?
15. Part 9 Challenging projects
    1. Taking over the project no-one is running
    2. Not seeing the wood for the trees
    3. The customers who do not know what they want
    4. Delivering in times of change
16. Part 10 The improving project manager
    1. Learning from projects
    2. Best practice, continuous improvement and accreditation
    3. Adopting a new project management approach
    4. Building a project delivery capability
17. Glossary
18. Index
19. Imprint