Material Outline
1. Chapter 1 – Modern Project Management
1.1. What is a project?
1.2. The importance of project management
1.3. Project management today – an integrative approach
2. Chapter 2 – Organization Strategy and Project Selection
2.1. The strategic management process: An overview
2.2. The need for an effective project portfolio
management system
2.3. A project portfolio management system
2.4. Applying a selection model
3. Chapter 3 – Organization: Structure and Culture
3.1. Project management structures
3.2. Choosing the appropriate project management
structure
3.3. Organizational culture
3.4. Implementations of organizational culture for
organizing projects
4. Chapter 4 – Defining the Project
4.1. Step 1: Defining the project scope
4.2. Step 2: Establishing project priorities
4.3. Step 3: Creating the work breakdown structure
4.4. Step 4: Integrating the WBS with the organization
4.5. Step 5: Coding the WBS for the information system
4.6. Project rollup
4.7. Process breakdown structure
4.8. Responsibility matrices
5. Chapter 5 – The Challenge of Estimating Project Times
and Costs
5.1. Factors influencing the quality of estimates
5.2. Estimating guidelines for times, costs, and resources
5.3. Macro versus Micro estimating
5.4. Methods for estimating project times and costs
5.5. Level of detail
5.6. Developing budgets
5.7. Types of costs
5.8. Refining estimates and contingency funds
5.9. Creating a database for estimating
6. Chapter 6 – Developing a Project Plan
6.1. Developing the project network
6.2. From work package to network
6.3. Constructing a project network
6.4. Activity-on-Node (AON) fundamentals
6.5. Network computation process
6.6. Using the forward and backward pass information
6.7. Level of detail for activities
6.8. Practical considerations
1. Introduction
1.1. Purpose of the PMBOK Guide
1.2. What is a project?
1.3. What is project management?
1.4. The PMBOK Guide Structure
1.5. Areas of Expertise
1.6. Project Management Context
2. Project Life Cycle and Organization
2.1. The Project Life Cycle
2.2. Project Stakeholders
2.3. Organizational Influences
5. Project Scope Management
5.1. Scope planning
5.2. Scope definition
5.3. Create WBS
5.4. Scope verification
5.5. Scope control
6. Project Time Management
6.1. Activity definition
6.2. Activity sequencing
6.3. Activity resource estimating
6.4. Activity duration estimating
7. Project Cost Management
7.1. Cost estimating
7.2. Cost budgeting
6. Project Time Management
6.5 Schedule development
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6.9. Extended network techniques to come closer to
reality
Chapter 7 – Managing Risk
6.1. Risk management process
6.2. Step 1: Risk identification
6.3. Step 2: Risk assessment
6.4. Step 3: Risk response development
6.5. Contingency planning
6.6. Contingency funding and time buffers
6.7. Step 4: Risk response control
6.8. Change control management
Chapter 8 – Scheduling Resources
7.1. The problem
7.2. Types of project constraints
7.3. Classification of a scheduling problem
7.4. Resource allocation methods
7.5. Computer demonstration of resource-constrained
scheduling
7.6. Scheduling
7.7. Splitting / multi-tasking
7.8. Benefits of scheduling resources
7.9. Assigning project work
7.10. Multi-project resource schedules
Chapter 9 – Reducing project duration
8.1. Rationale for reducing project duration
8.2. Options for accelerating project completion
8.3. Project cost – duration graph
8.4. Constructing a project cost – duration graph
8.5. Practical considerations
8.6. What if cost reduction, not time, is the issue?
Chapter 10 – Leadership: Being an Effective Project
Manager
9.1. Managing versus leading a project
9.2. Managing project stakeholders
9.3. Influence as exchange
9.4. Social network building
9.5. Ethics and project management
9.6. Building trust: the key to exercising influence
9.7. Qualities of an effective project manager
Chapter 11 – Managing Project Teams
10.1. The five-stage team development model
10.2. Situational factors affecting team development
10.3. Building high-performance project teams
10.4. Managing virtual project teams
10.5. Project team pitfalls
Chapter 12 – Partnering: Managing Inter-organizational
Relations
11.1. Introduction to project partnering
11.2. Pre-project activities – setting the stage for
successful partnering
11.3. Project implementation – sustaining collaborative
relationships
11. Project Risk Management
11.1. Risk management planning
11.2. Risk identification
11.3. Qualitative risk analysis
11.4. Quantitative risk analysis
11.5. Risk response planning
9. Project Human Resource Management
9.1. Human Resource Planning
9.2. Acquire Project Team
9.3. Develop Project Team
9.4. Manage Project Team
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11.4. Project completion – celebrating success
11.5. Why project partnering efforts fail
11.6. The art of negotiating
11.7. A note on managing customer relations
Chapter 13 – Progress and Performance Measurement
and Evaluation
12.1. Structure of a project monitoring information
system
12.2. The project control process
12.3. Monitoring time performance
12.4. The need for an integrated information system
12.5. Developing a status report: A hypothetical example
12.6. Indexes to monitor progress
12.7. Forecasting final project cost
12.8. Other control issues
Chapter 14 – Project Audit and Closure
13.1. Project audits
13.2. The project audit process
13.3. Project audits: The bigger picture
13.4. Project closure
13.5. Team, team member, and project manager
evaluations
Chapter 15 – International Projects
14.1. Environmental factors
14.2. Project site selection
14.3. Cross-cultural considerations: A closer look
14.4. Selection and training for international projects
Chapter 16 – The Process of Project Management and
the Future
15.1. Current and future trends in project management
15.2. Unresolved issues
15.3. Project management career issues
6. Project Time Management
6.6 Schedule control
7. Project Cost Management
7.3 Cost control
8. Project Quality Management
8.3 Quality control
8. Project Risk Management
11.6 Risk monitoring and control
8. Project Quality Management
8.1. Quality planning
8.2. Performance quality assurance
10. Project Communications Management
10.1. Communications planning
10.2. Information distribution
10.3. Performance reporting
10.4. Manage stakeholders
12. Project Procurement Management
12.1. Plan purchases and acquisitions
12.2. Plan contracting
12.3. Request seller responses
12.4. Select sellers
12.5. Contract administration
12.6. Contract closure