Case Studies in Project, Program, and Organizational Project Management

by Milosevic, Dragan Z.; Patanakul, Peerasit; Srivannaboon, Sabin

• ISBN13: 9780470183885
• ISBN10: 0470183888
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-04-19
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

The ever expanding market need for information on how to apply project management principles and the PMBOK contents to day-to-day business situations has been met by our case studies book by Harold Kerzner. That book was a spin-off from and ancillary to his best selling text but has gained a life of its own beyond adopters of that textbook. All indications are that the market is hungry for more cases while our own need to expand the content we control, both in-print and online woudl benefit from such an expansion of project management "case content". The authors propose to produce a book of cases that compliment Kerzner's book. A book that offers cases beyond the general project management areas and into PMI's growth areas of program management and organizational project management. The book will be structured to follow the PMBOK in coverage so that it can not only be used to supplement project management courses, but also for self sudy and training courses for the PMP Exam.

Author Biography

DRAGAN Z. MILOSEVIC, PhD, PMP, is a retired Professor of Engineering and Technology Management from Portland State University (Oregon). He is a consultant with Rapidinnovation and has worked with companies including Intel, Hewlett-Packard, Boeing, and DaimlerChrysler. He is the author of the Project Management ToolBox (Wiley), which was awarded the 2005 David Cleland Award from PMI.

PEERASIT PATANAKUL, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the School of Technology Management, Stevens Institute of Technology (New Jersey), who has taught and conducted research with several leading companies in the high technology, financial, and telecommunications industries. He has received research grants from NASA and PMI. His works have been published in several international journals and books. Peerasit was a recipient of the prestigious 2007 Transactions Publication Award from IEEE Engineering Management Society.

SABIN SRIVANNABOON, PhD, is the Assistant Head of Human Resource Management Program and a faculty member at Sasin GIBA of Chulalongkorn University (Thailand). Prior to joining Sasin, Sabin worked as a program manager for RadiSys and Tektronix, where he was responsible for new product introduction and product redesign projects. Sabin won the 2006 Paper of the Year Award, given by PMI Educational Foundation to recognize excellence in project management research.

Table of Contents

Case Studies in Project Management

Introduction

AaronSide Goes to Teams

Cocable Inc.

A RobustArm Industries'

SledgeHammer

Another Trojan Horse

Call a Truck

The Project Hand-off Method

Cultural Aspects of Project Management

Engineering Culture at Beck

The Jamming

Project Management Processes

Special Session

Waterfall Software Development

Extreme Programming

Do You ZBB (Rabah Kamis)?

Project Integration Management

Abacus Project

Ticketing System

WRQ Software Development

Project Scope Management

Workshop: Project Definition

Work Breakdown Structure as a Skeleton for Integration

Project Anatomy

Rapid Prototyping

Project Time Management

How Long Does It Take to Catch a Fish - TAD (Ferra Weyhuni)?

Workshop: The Jogging Line in Action

Sequencing

The Rolling Wave

Schedule Accuracy

AtlasCom

Workshop: The Milestone Chart

Project Cost Management

The Court House Disaster

Bad Metrics for Earned Value

The Museum Company

Workshop: Parametric Estimate

No Bottom-Up Estimate, No Job

Earned Tree Analysis

Project Quality Management

Robots Fail Too

The Black Belt that is Peaceful

Workshop: Project Quality Program

Project Human Resource Management

The Bully, Subversive, Prima Donna, etc.

Startups Born with Conflict

We Do Not Speak the Same Language

My Job was to Integrate Two Cultures

Rate and Rank

Project Communication Management

The Russians Join Us Late at Night

Quest for Clear

Electronic Medical Record

Improving Public Health Informatics

A Simple Metric Goes a Long Way

Executive Project Metrics

Project Risk Management

Risk Policies in Project Russia

Risk under the Microscope

Monte Carlo in Italy

Probability and Impact

Project Procurement Management

The $30,000 Frigidaire

Mountain of Iron, Mountain of Dollars

Case Studies in Program Management

Themes of Program Management

KPI

The Bounding Box Boxes You

Program Initiating Process

Business that Operated without Knowing Where Its profits Came from

Mega Security“

Program Planning Process

Quick Release

The Budica Program

Best Practices Overview

Expected the Unexpected

Program Executing Process

Program Strike Zone

Program Map

Using Tools on a Mercedes

Program Monitoring and Controlling Process

I Have Only Three Minutes a Month

OSSOP

That Which Is Not Earned Is Never Valued

Program Closing Process and Programs in Action

A Checklist

General Public Hospital

American Shogun

Planet Orbits

ConSoul Software

Case Studies in Organizational Project Management

Alignment and Portfolio Management

LorryMer Information Technology

Who Owns the Portfolio

Our Portfolio Stinks

Standardized Methodologies

Standardized Program Risk Management

Go with the Template Always

We Do Not Need Standard Methodology

Joy Knows How to Defend

Competencies of Project Managers and Project Management Office (PMO)

They Are Business Leader at Spotlight Corporation

The Program Management Office

We Go One Step at a Time

Information Systems, Organization, and Metrics

Is It Information Systems That We Need

Spreadsheet is Everything

R&D and Operations: How to Make Them Talk

Bluedogs USA

Point of Contact

Organizational Culture and Project Culture

What Help Us Come This Far

Is It Standard Methodology That We Need

Organizational Project Management in Action

Let's Go All The Way

Are We Ready for Project Portfolio Management

Index

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