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Goal Directed Project Management

Effective Techniques and Strategies

Erling S Andersen author Kristoffer V Grude author Tor Haug author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Kogan Page Ltd

Published:3rd Jun '09

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Gives detailed and practical guidance on how to plan, organize and control projects from a 'People, System and Organization' perspective Adopted as core reading on MBA and MSC courses throughout the world, this book includes guidelines to take you through setting up a project budget based on cost-benefit analysis Provides methods and tools that will significantly increase your probability of project success Explains how to report and control a running project using a milestone-related budget Sets out project management methodology with its roots in clear and conceptual framework

This newly updated fourth edition of one of the most influential books written on project management - incorporates a new chapter focusing on how GDPM methods can be applied to financial control of projects.Goal Directed Project Management(GDPM) is a unique methodology that has been developed and refined by the authors over a period of more than 20 years. In this time, organizations all over the world have adopted it as a standard approach. The central focus of Goal Directed Project Management, this fourth edition of one of the most influential project management books, is to develop understanding, commitment and involvement while managing successful and lasting change. Throughout the text, the authors emphasise the need for a 'PSO' (People, System and Organization) perspective that goes beyond the technical aspects dealt with by most project management literature, enhancing and prolonging the life of a project by allowing the people and organization involved to develop simultaneously with the system. Goal Directed Project Management gives detailed and practical guidance on how to plan, organise and control these PSO projects effectively, presenting methods and tools that will increase significantly the probability of project success. This newly updated fourth edition of Goal Directed Project Management addresses the financial control of projects in a new chapter, presenting a pragmatic approach - based on GDPM methods - to this aspect of project management. It includes guidelines to take you through setting up a project budget based on cost benefit analysis and shows how to report and control the running project using the milestone related budget. Online resources now include an additional chapter on GDPM in a multi-project environment. Further information about GDPM certification can be found at www.gdpm.com

"Racy and pragmatic...a worthwhile addition the literature." * European Management Journal *
"Well argued and authoritative." * The Work Foundation *

ISBN: 9780749453343

Dimensions: 235mm x 155mm x 15mm

Weight: 425g

272 pages

4th Revised edition