Project Management: A Practical Approach

Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Preface
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part 1: Practical Theory
	Chapter 1: The project
		1.1: Types of activities, types of work
		1.2: Examples of projects
		1.3: What is a project?
		1.4: Moving from improvised to project based to routine activities
		1.5: Types of projects
		1.6: Things to remember
		1.7: Doing things in phases
		1.8: Why do things in phases?
		1.9: The phases of a project: an illustration
		1.10: When to do it as a project
		1.11: Lifecycle of a project
		1.12: Projects should be SMART
		1.13: Carrying out the projects in this book
		Assignments
	Chapter 2: People working on projects
		2.1: Line organisation
		2.2: The project organisation
		2.3: The project sponsor
		2.4: Future users
		2.5: The project manager
		2.6: The project members
		2.7: Relationship sponsor and project manager
		2.8: Task-oriented and people-oriented leadership
		2.9: Working on a project
		2.10: Team roles according to Belbin
		2.11: Digital tools for collaboration
		2.12: Team agreements
		2.13: Creativity and brainstorming
		2.14: Negotiating
		2.15: Making decisions in a project
		2.16: Related projects
		2.17: Outsourcing a project
		2.18: Projects and cultural differences
		Assignments
	Chapter 3: The project from start to finish
		3.1: Organising and carrying out the project
		3.2: Reasons for starting the project
		3.3: From reasons to do a project to actually doing the project itself
		3.4: Project proposal
		3.5: Initial meeting with the sponsor
		3.6: Setting up the project
		3.7: Project start-up meeting
		3.8: Design and preparation
		3.9: Realisation of the project result
		3.10: Completion of the project
		3.11: Project in time
		3.12: Monitoring aspects of a project
		3.13: Monitoring projects in practice
		3.14: Why projects fail
		3.15: Project risks
		3.16: Terminating a project prematurely
		3.17: Project management: methods
		Assignments
	Chapter 4: Planning
		4.1: Why plan?
		4.2: Concepts and terms
		4.3: Gantt charts
		4.4: Network diagrams
		4.5: Deriving a Gantt chart from a network diagram
		4.6: Adjustments to a planning
		4.7: Which activities are required?
		4.8: Planning software
		4.9: Using planning software
		4.10: Planning a large project in phases
		4.11: Time management
		4.12: Mini-course on MS Project on the website
		Assignments
Part 2: How to do a project: methods and tools
	Chapter 5: How to do a project – the P6-Method
		5.1: The P6-Method
		5.2: Overview of the six steps
		5.3: Step 1: Initiating the project
		5.4: Step 2: Organising the project
		5.5: Step 3: Writing a project plan
		5.6: Step 4: Executing the project
		5.7: Step 5: Delivering the project’s results
		5.8: Step 6: Finalizing the project
		Assignments
	Chapter 6: Writing a project plan
		6.1: The project plan
		6.2: Dividing the project plan into sections
		6.3: Background information
		6.4: The project’s results
		6.5: Project activities
		6.6: Project scope and conditions
		6.7: Intermediate results
		6.8: Quality control
		6.9: The project organisation
		6.10: Planning
		6.11: Costs and benefits
		6.12: Risk analysis
		6.13: Writing the project plan
		6.14: The project’s files
		Assignments
	Chapter 7: Using Scrum
		7.1: Scrum
		7.2: Scrum applications
		7.3: The benefits and drawbacks of Scrum
		7.4: Scrum components
		7.5: Roles within Scrum
		7.6: Information during the Scrum process
		7.7: Meetings during the Scrum process
		Assignments
	Chapter 8: Organising meetings
		8.1: Project meeting
		8.2: Preparing for the meeting
		8.3: The meeting’s agenda
		8.4: The meeting itself
		8.5: After the meeting
		Assignments
	Chapter 9: Conducting interviews
		9.1: Types of interviews
		9.2: The three stages of an interview
		Assignments
	Chapter 10: Writing a report
		10.1: Preparing to write the report
		10.2: Putting the report together
		10.3: The structure of the report
		10.4: The main contents and finishing touches to the report
		Assignments
	Chapter 11: Holding a presentation
		11.1: Organisation and contents of a presentation
		11.2: Using an overhead projector or screen
		11.3: The structure of a presentation
		11.4: The presentation itself
		Assignments
	Chapter 12: Making an executive summary
		12.1: The purpose of an executive summary
		12.2: The components of an executive summary
		Assignments
Final Assignments
Appendix 1: Risk Analysis
Appendix 2: Website www.projectmanagement-english.noordhoff.nl
Bibliography
About the author
Index