The Frontiers of Project Management Research Summary:
Publisher: Project Management Institute | ISBN: 1880410745 | edition 2002 | CHM | 520 pages | 12,99 mb
Here are just a few of the many helpful insights awaiting your discovery within The Frontiers of Project Management Research:
• To know the field, read Project Management literature past and present. Over 3500 project management research articles have been published since 1960—the 1990s produced the largest volume, and certainly the most current information.
• Recognize the importance of measuring project success. Many factors contribute to it, but identifying and measuring the key ones for each project remains a critical, and sometimes elusive, achievement.
• Think project management is challenging now — wait `til tomorrow. Project management challenges are likely to increase in the future as projects, project environments, technology, and people relationships grow in complexity.
• Tailor your communications to key stakeholders' levels of interest and power. Devote considerable time and attention to a project's key players. Specifically define, demonstrate, and communicate the benefits from investments in project management to senior managers and others.
• Take the time to develop trusting relationships. Research confirms it—trust leads to better client relationships, accelerated time to market, and lower project costs.
• Planning is our most important process. Among all the research articles published in project management over the past 40 years, planning led over leading, controlling, executing, and improving.
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