Overview
- Winner of 2020 PMI David I. Cleland Project Management Literature Award
- A complete project management toolkit designed to support project leaders across the entire life of a project — from conception through to evaluation
- Provides a robust discussion of the concept of project benefits and reliable guidelines for the benefit management process
- Describes methods for setting a scope for a project that is consistent with achievement of desired benefits and rigorous frameworks for judging success
- Includes supporting illustrations, templates and case studies and a comprehensive glossary of project terms and definitions
- Accompanied by an online workbook to assist instructors, including a comprehensive case study and worked exercises
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Leading a Project
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Winner of 2020 PMI David I. Cleland Project Management Literature Award
This book is a complete project management toolkit for project leaders in business, research and industry.
Projects are approved and financed to generate benefits. Project Management: A Benefit Realisation Approach proposes a complete framework that supports this objective – from project selection and definition, through execution, and beyond implementation of deliverables until benefits are secured.
The book is the first to explain the creation of organisational value by suggesting a complete, internally-consistent and theoretically rigorous benefit-focused project management methodology, supported with an analytical technique: benefit engineering. Benefit engineering offers a practical approach to the design and maintenance of an organisation’s project portfolio.
Building upon the authors’ earlier successful book, Project Management for the Creation of Organisational Value, this comprehensively revised and expanded new book contains the addition of new chapters on project realisation. The book offers a rigorous explanation of how benefits emerge from a project. This approach is developed and strengthened — resulting in a completely client-oriented view of a project.
Senior executives, practitioners, students and academics will find in this book a comprehensive guide to the conduct of projects, which includes robust models, a set of consistent principles, an integrated glossary, enabling tools, illustrative examples and case studies.
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Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
John Smyrk is a graduate of Monash University, holding an Honours degree in Economics (with a specialisation in Econometrics) and Masters in Economics (witha specialisation in Operations Research). He designed, developed and delivered post graduate courses in project management at a number of universities. He has spent years working in various industries, such as steel-making, infrastructure, heavy engineering, chemicals and industrial instrumentation. He has consulted to the public and private sectors, specialising in in project management, with clients in manufacturing, finance, transport and government. He is currently a private consultant in project management. With Dr Zwikael, he participates in an ongoing research program directed at the assembly of comprehensive, reliable and rigorous theoretical foundations for the discipline of project management.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Project Management
Book Subtitle: A Benefit Realisation Approach
Authors: Ofer Zwikael, John R. Smyrk
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03174-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-03173-2Published: 28 March 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-03174-9Published: 19 March 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 337
Number of Illustrations: 61 b/w illustrations, 34 illustrations in colour
Topics: Project Management, Business Information Systems, Construction Management, Business Process Management, Operations Management, Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems