Project Objectives Management: Aligning Targets, Delivering Results and Handling Unexpected Challenges

Table of Contents
About the Author
Preface
Chapter 1: The Customer Perspective: Why Change?
	Project Management Success and Objectives
		Project Management
		Project Success, Success Factors, and Success Criteria
		Project vs. Organizational Success
		Project Objectives
	The Customer and Supplier Perspectives
		The Customer and Absent Supplier Perspectives
		The Absent Supplier Perspective Further Explored
	The Conventional Goal of Making Money
	The Project Supplier’s Problems
		Providing Less Than Possible or Even Insufficient Benefit
		Part-time Project Team Members
		Added Value
		Misalignment Between Organization and Project Regarding Continuous Improvement
		A Core Quadrant Analysis of Innovations
		A Current Reality Tree of Process Assets
		More Examples of Project Supplier Problems: SWOT Analysis
		Fewer Benefits Due to a Primary Focus on Commercial Objectives
		Continuous Improvement
	Summary
Chapter 2: The Goal: Where to Change?
	Provide the Best Possible Benefit for the Project Supplier
	A Future Reality Tree of Process Assets
	Project and Organizational Culture
	Secure the Future
	Project Management Objectives for the Project Supplier
	The Typical Project Supplier
	Summary
Chapter 3: Productive Aspects of Project Subjects: What to Change?
	Productive Aspects of Project Subjects
	Summary
Chapter 4: The Supplier Perspective: How to Change?
	The Conventional Definition of Project Objectives
	The Customer vs. Supplier Perspective
		Deviating Project Actions
		Product vs. Process Focus
		Deviating Relationships Between Project Objectives and Organizational Benefits
		Customer and Supplier Goals
		The Customer vs. Supplier Perspectives
	The Supplier Perspective on Project Objectives
	Summary
Chapter 5: Project Objectives: How to Cause Change?
	First Steps Toward Generic Project Objectives
		The Initial Three
		Applicable Productive Aspects of Project Subjects
		Supporting Principles
	Introduction to Generic Project Objectives
		Competence
		Customers
		Employees
		Innovation
		Lessons Learned
		Money
		Process Assets
		Resources
		Rules and Values
		Stakeholders
	Synergies Between the Generic Project Objectives
		Objectives vs. Constraints?
		Supplier Project Objectives by Actions Through Project Execution
	Summary
Chapter 6: Process: How to Implement Change?
	The Model and Process
		The SPOM Process
	The Process Activities
		Organizational Definition of Generic Objectives
		Redefinition of Organizational Supplier Project Objectives Necessary?
		Project Definition of Specific Objectives
		Planning Objective Actions
		Executing Objective Actions
		Measurement and Control of Objective Actions
		Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
		Fundamental Objectives Measurements and the Productivity Check
		Organizational Objectives Dashboard
		Redefinition of Project-Specific Supplier Project Objectives Necessary?
		Embedding Organizational Benefits
	Summary
Chapter 7: Management: How to Integrate Change?
	Project Controls
		Existing Organizational Management Processes
		Integration with Project Controls
	Generic Project Management Methods
		Project Management Methods
		Integration with a Project Management Method
	Competence and Appraisal Management
		Senior Project Management Philosophy
	Summary
Chapter 8: Benefits: How to Benefit from Change?
	Principles
		Give and Take
		Resources
		A Balancing Act
		Push/Pull
		Now and in the Future
		Balance in the Multi-Project Environment
	Benefits of the Method
		The Project Supplier That Benefits the Most from the Method
		Benefits from Implementing Supplier Project Objectives Management
	Summary