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Offering a new perspective on project management, Art and Practice of Managing Projects brings together over 40 years of experience and research from industry leader Albert Hamilton. With advice that is easy to interpret and apply to your projects, this internationally relevant book provides the tools and techniques you need to increase effectiveness at all levels of your project team and to achieve your strategic goals.
Structured into six parts, each containing a real-life case study, this book takes a systems approach to project management, guiding the reader through the key stages from initial idea to final completion.

Art and Practice of Managing Projects

Preface

Contents

Systems - the genesis of projects



Systems approach

Representing systems

Systems thinking

Synergy between organisations and projects

Changes in managing work



An account of management progression

The rise of 'management by projects'

Project management: today's fashion?

Organising for project work



Projects: agents for change

Performing organisations

Relationship management

Project teams, people, skills

Project management office

Conceiving and defining projects



Aligning business strategy and project management

Project conceptualisation

Project financing

Managing the design phase

Project plans and protocols



Planning and scheduling

Estimating the budget cost

Time and cost: inter-linkage & performance

Project risk and its management

Value and the value system

Achieving successful outcomes



Procuring what the project needs

Managing the project and its stakeholders

Quality, health, safety and environment

Communications and configuration management

Completion, feedback, and lessons learned