Rethinking Project Management: An Organisational Perspective

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		Rethinking Project Management: An Organisational Perspective
		Rethinking Project Management: An Organisational Perspective

基本信息·出版社：FT Press
·页码：368 页
·出版日期：2008年11月
·ISBN：027371547X
·International Standard Book Number：027371547X
·条形码：9780273715474
·EAN：9780273715474
·装帧：平装
·正文语种：英语

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Erling S. Andersen's new book examines project management from an organisational perspective. A project is a temporary organisation, established by its base organisation to carry out an assignment on its behalf. From this perspective, project management focusses on the relationship between the permanent and the temporary organisation. Inherent in this perspective is an understanding of the project's most important purpose, to facilitate another organisation's progress.
目录
List of figures List of tables Preface Publisher's acknowledgements Chapter 1 The project concept and the organisational perspective 1.1 Projects and perspectives 1.2 The task perspective 1.2.1 Definition and main ideas 1.2.2 Theoretical base 1.2.3 Criticisms of task perspective 1.3 The organisational perspective 1.3.1 Definition and main ideas 1.3.2 Theoretical base 1.4 A universal project management theory or several contingency theories? 1.4.1 Types of project 1.4.2 Life cycle models 1.4.3 How this affects what follows 1.5 The project assignment 1.5.1 The rationale of the project stability and change at the same time 1.5.2 Dividing responsibilities between the project and base organisation 1.5.3 What sort of changes is possible in a base organisation? 1.5.4 Pursuing different types of change at the same time PSO 1.5.5 Evolutionary development 1.5.6 Resistance to change 1.5.7 The evolving task 1.6 Projects and time 1.6.1 Cyclical, linear and alternating time 1.6.2 Temporal focus and temporal depth 1.6.3 Polychronicity and monochronicity 1.6.4 Scheduling of activities entrainment of processes 1.6.5 Coping with stress 1.7 A project management theory based on the organisational perspective 1.7.1 Concepts, theories and methods 1.7.2 A project management theory 1.7.3 Theory elaboration Notes to Chapter 1 Chapter 2 The foundation of the project 2.1 Strategies affecting projects 2.1.1 Change strategy: punctuated equilibrium 2.1.2 Change strategy: event pacing or time pacing 2.1.3 Positioning strategy 2.1.4 Implementation strategies 2.2 Project uncertainty 2.2.1 The concept of uncertainty 2.2.2 Attitudes to uncertainty 2.2.3 Uncertainty management strategies 2.3 Project stakeholders 2.3.1 Salience 2.3.2 A strategy for dealing with stakeholders 2.3.3 Constructing a coalition the contribution/reward model 2.4 Establishing the project 2.4.1 Business case 2.4.2 Project mandate 2.5 Project mission, goals and success criteria 2.5.1 Missionand goals 2.5.2 Elaborating the mission mission breakdown structure 2.5.3 Project success criteria 2.5.4 Moving targets 2.6 Project scope and delimitations 2.6.1 Freedom of action 2.6.2 Project responsibilities 2.6.3 Project completion date 2.7 Giving the project an identity 2.7.1 Project identity 2.7.2 Naming the project 2.7.3 Project owner 2.7.4 Project steering committee 2.7.5 Project manager 2.7.6 Project background 2.8 Value of project 2.8.1 Project benefits 2.8.2 Project costs 2.8.3 Value = Benefits Costs Notes to Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Planning the project 3.1 The planning process 3.1.2 Project planning as a collective effort 3.1.3 The dilemma of project planning 3.1.4 Project planning on three levels 3.1.5 The importance of project planning 3.2 Project startup 3.3 Milestones 3.3.1 Concept of milestone 3.3.2 Controllability of milestones 3.3.3 The attractiveness of milestones 3.4 Milestone plan 3.4.1 Milestone plan philosophy 3.4.2 Focus areas result paths in the milestone plan 3.4.3 Time scheduling entrainment as the guiding light 3.5 The detailed planning 3.5.1 Network plans 3.5.2 The planning fallacy and other problems 3.5.3 Buffers in plans 3.6 Uncertainty assessments of plans 3.6.1 The uncertainty assessment process 3.6.2 The great dilemma in uncertainty management 3.7 IT support Notes to Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Organising the project 4.1 What sort of organisation is a project? 4.1.1 Action organisations and political organisations 4.1.2 The project's organisational dilemma 4.2 Allocating responsibilities in the project 4.2.1 Responsibility concepts 4.2.2 Responsibility charts 4.2.3 Project work roles 4.2.4 Role conflict and role ambiguity 4.2.5 Conflicts between family and work 4.2.6 Do people comply with the responsibility chart? 4.3 The project's organisational structure 4.3.1 The external organisational solutions 4.3.2 Pros and cons of the matrix organisation 4.3.3 Internal organisational structures 4.4 Resource allocation to the project 4.4.1 Resource allocation syndrome 4.4.2 Resource allocation as a negotiation process 4.5 Project team 4.5.1 Recruiting team members 4.5.2 Personality and its impact 4.5.3 The importance of team roles 4.5.4 The significance of external contact 4.5.5 Team development 4.5.6 The virtual team 4.6 Project support office 4.7 Organisational culture in the project and base organisation 4.7.1&culture 4.7.2 The project's own organisational culture 4.7.3 Passion, creativity, humour and ethics 4.7.4 Story-telling Notes to Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Controlling the project 5.1 Status reports and project evaluations 5.1.1 Focusing on milestones 5.1.2 Focusing on goals and performance 5.1.3 Critical success factors 5.1.4 Quality assurance of project deliverables 5.1.5 Holistic project evaluation 5.1.6 Sensemaking and change 5.1.7 Inaccurate status reports? 5.2 Decision making and action 5.2.1 Balancing time, costs and quality 5.2.2 Project escalation 5.2.3 Authority to act 5.3 Learning and project management 5.3.1 Organisational learning 5.3.2 Project-based learning 5.3.3 Project-based learning methods 5.3.4 Facilitating project-based learning 5.3.5 Project-based learning obstacles Notes to Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Important project leadership tasks 6.1 Project manager's leadership style 6.1.1 Situational leadership theory 6.1.2 Transformational leadership and transactional leadership 6.1.3 Leadership style: yet another paradox 6.2 A project manager's external duties 6.2.1 Project manager and politician 6.2.2 Securing support for the project 6.2.3 Ensuring balanced user involvement 6.2.4 Promoting transparency 6.3 Duties that are both external and internal 6.3.1 External and internal trust 6.3.2 External and internal communication 6.4 Project manager's internal interpersonal duties 6.4.1 Boosting morale 6.4.2 Empowering employees 6.4.3 Solving conflicts 6.4.4 Managing moods and emotions 6.4.5 Preventing burnout 6.4.6 Making a successful team Notes to Chapter 6 Chapter 7 The project-oriented organisation and the project-oriented society 7.1 Management by projects 7.1.1 Many concurrent projects 7.1.2 What is management by projects? 7.1.3 Programme management 7.1.4 Portfolio management 7.1.5 Portfolio management rationality 7.1.6 Base organisation's control and project autonomy 7.1.7 Standardisation? 7.1.8 Project management maturity 7.2 The project-oriented society 7.2.1 Project-orientation 7.2.2 Do national cultures matter? 7.2.3 What about multinational projects? 7.3 Project management as a profession 7.3.1 What is a profession? 7.3.2 Professionalising project management 7.4 The future of project management 7.4.1 Rethinking project management 7.4.2 Happy projects! Notes to Chapter 7 References Index
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