Authors: Erling S Andersen, Tor Haug, Kristoffer V Grude
ISBN-13: 9780749453343, ISBN-10: 0749453346
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Kogan Page, Ltd.
Date Published: July 2009
Edition: 4th ed.
Erling S Andersen is professor of project management and information systems at the Norwegian School of Management BI, Oslo. He has written several books on project management, general management and computer-based information systems.
Tor Haug is an independent consultant specializing in IT strategies, re-engineering and project management.
Kristoffer Grude is a former managing director and partner of Coopers & Lybrand Consulting, Norway. He now has his own consulting firm, Euroconsult.
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. The central focus of GDPM is to develop understanding, commitment and involvement while managing successful and lasting change. Throughout the text, the authors emphasize the need for a PSO’ (People, System and Organization) perspective that enhances and prolongs the life of a project by allowing the people and organization involved to develop simultaneously with the system.
The 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 for setting up a project budget based on cost benefit analysis and shows how to report and control the project using the milestone-related budget.
1 | Introduction | 1 |
2 | Project characteristics | 9 |
3 | Pitfalls in project management | 17 |
4 | Foundation of the project | 37 |
5 | Global planning - milestone planning | 67 |
6 | Global organizing - milestone responsibility chart | 95 |
7 | Detail planning and detail organization | 127 |
8 | Project control | 135 |
9 | Quality in project work | 155 |
10 | Project culture | 163 |
11 | Goal Directed Project Management - example and summary | 195 |
Sources | 233 | |
References | 239 | |
Index | 243 |