Routledge Frontiers in Project Management
About the Book Series
Project management has become a key competence for most organisations in the public and private sectors. Driven by recent business trends such as fewer management layers, greater flexibility, increasing geographical distribution and more project-based work, project management has grown beyond its roots in the construction, engineering and aerospace industries to transform the service, financial, computer, and general management sectors. In fact, a Fortune article rated project management as the number one career choice at the beginning of the 21st century. Yet many organizations have struggled in applying the traditional models of project management to their new projects in the global environment. Project management offers a framework to help organisations to transform their mainstream operations and service performance. It is viewed as a way of organising for the future. Moreover, in an increasingly busy, stressful, and uncertain world it has become necessary to manage several projects successfully at the same time. According to some estimates the world annually spends well over $10 trillion (US) on projects. In the UK alone, more than £250 billion is spent on projects every year. Up to half of these projects fail! A major ingredient in the build-up leading to failure is often cited as the lack of adequate project management knowledge and experience. Some organizations have responded to this situation by trying to improve the understanding and capability of their managers and employees who are introduced to projects, as well as their experienced project managers in an attempt to enhance their competence and capability in this area. Advances in Project Management provides short, state of play, guides to the main aspects of the new emerging applications including: maturity models, agile projects, extreme projects, six sigma and projects, human factors and leadership in projects, project governance, value management, virtual teams and project benefits.
Sustainability and Agile Project Management: Methodologies for Sustainable Development
1st Edition
By Katarzyna Piwowar-Sulej, Mariusz Sołtysik
July 12, 2024
Sustainable project management is a new school of management thought and a growing trend yet there is a scarcity of research on the linkage between individual PM methodologies and sustainability in projects. This book fills a gap through the theoretical and empirical research on the implications of...
The Front-end of Large Public Projects: Paradoxes and Ways Ahead
1st Edition
Edited
By Terry M. Williams, Knut Samset, Gro Holst Volden
January 29, 2024
Large public projects represent major complex investment and whilst there has been much written about how to develop, manage and deliver such projects, practice still does not match up with expectations. In this book, researchers from the Norwegian Concept Research Programme explore the paradoxes ...
Leading the Project Revolution: Reframing the Human Dynamics of Successful Projects
1st Edition
Edited
By Darren Dalcher
December 18, 2020
People play a vital part in the success of projects, initiatives and organisations, yet traditional project management sources offer limited guidance and insights that extend beyond technical roles and prescriptions. Leading the Project Revolution delves into the dynamics of people, teams and ...
Performance Coaching for Complex Projects: Influencing Behaviour and Enabling Change
1st Edition
By Tony Llewellyn
December 18, 2020
Performance Coaching for Complex Projects recognises a world of complex undertakings for which the common transactional mindsets and methodologies will not produce the required results. The author advocates, instead, the novel concept that the project manager or team leader should coach the team as...
Managing the Urgent and Unexpected: Twelve Project Cases and a Commentary
1st Edition
By Stephen Wearne, Keith White-Hunt
September 30, 2020
Sometimes unanticipated threats or opportunities create a situation in which work is required unexpectedly. On these occasions, such urgent and unexpected work demands an instant start, in contrast to the often lengthy processes of investigation, evaluation, development, selection and planning ...
Managing Projects in a World of People, Strategy and Change
1st Edition
Edited
By Darren Dalcher
August 14, 2018
Project management is at a crossroads: There is a pressing need to rethink the approaches used in initiating, managing and governing projects, programmes and change initiatives. The aim of this book is to progress the dialogue around project practice by shifting the focus from instrumental methods ...
The Evolution of Project Management Practice: From Programmes and Contracts to Benefits and Change
1st Edition
Edited
By Darren Dalcher
September 14, 2017
Project practice has undergone significant changes requiring new ways of thinking about and managing projects. The single focus on the staged delivery of artefacts is gradually being replaced by a wider interest in stakeholders, value, benefits, and complexity. As a result there is a growing ...
Further Advances in Project Management: Guided Exploration in Unfamiliar Landscapes
1st Edition
Edited
By Darren Dalcher
December 09, 2016
Projects are ubiquitous to modern society, yet, concerns around successful delivery, value realisation, resilience and making change stick force a significant re-evaluation of the scope and extent of the ‘normal’ project discourse. The common thread for all of this is around capabilities, skills, ...
Advances in Project Management: Narrated Journeys in Uncharted Territory
1st Edition
Edited
By Darren Dalcher
August 26, 2016
On the evidence of the authors of Advances in Project Management: Narrated Journeys in Unchartered Territory, there is a sea change coming. That change will affect the way projects are perceived, lead and governed, particularly in the context of the wider organisation to which they belong; whether ...
Net Present Value and Risk Modelling for Projects
1st Edition
By Martin Hopkinson
April 04, 2016
The Net Present Value (NPV) forecast lies at the heart of the business case on many projects. Martin Hopkinson's guide explains when, why and how NPV models should be built for projects and how this approach can be integrated with the risk management process. NPV models tend to be used during the ...
Managing Project Uncertainty
1st Edition
By David Cleden
March 22, 2016
Dealing effectively with uncertainty requires today's project manager to be familiar with a broad spectrum of strategies, encompassing both 'hard' and 'soft' methods. This theme of unified thinking (i.e. the need to selectively draw upon a wide range of strategies in any given situation) will ...
A Practical Guide to Dealing with Difficult Stakeholders
1st Edition
By Jake Holloway, David Bryde
August 04, 2015
All project stakeholders have different needs, objectives, responsibilities and priorities. For many project managers it is disturbing to realise that, for any number of personal or professional reasons, some of their stakeholders may not be as co-operative and helpful as they expect. It could be a...