The Handbook of Project Management

This practice-oriented handbook presents practitioners and students with a comprehensive overview of the current best practice in project management. It includes the most up-to-date thinking in the discipline, describing recent developments in a way that practitioners can immediately use in their work.

Autorentext

Martina Huemann is a Professor for Major Infrastructure Delivery at BSSC, University College London and Professor at WU Vienna. Martina is Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Project Management and Founding Editor-in-Chief of Project Leadership and Society. As co-founder of enable2change, she believes in co-creation between practitioners, policy makers, and scholars.

Rodney Turner is a Visiting Professor at the University of Leeds. He is the author or editor of 18 books and editor of the International Journal of Project Management from 1993 to 2018. His research covers governance, stakeholder experience, and megaproject management. In 2004, he received a research achievement award from PMI and in 2012 from IPMA.

Inhalt

1. A handbook for project management practitioners Part I: Projects 2. Projects and their management 3. Linking strategy and projects through strategic initiatives 4. Project success 5. Managing project complexity 6. Auditing projects and programs Part II: Performance 7. Measuring project performance 8. Managing requirements, scope and configuration 9. Project organization 10. Project owner organizations 11. Managing business case and benefits realization 12. Managing value in projects 13. Managing integrated project delivery 14. Data analytics in managing projects 15. Managing Digital Projects Infrastructure 16. Managing project risk 17. Managing project crisis 18. Sustainable project management Part III: Process 19. Managing the process 20. Feasibility and planning 21. Design thinking in projects 22. Predictive, adaptive and hybrid project approaches 23. Scenario planning Part IV: People 24. The project manager 25. The project sponsor 26. The project team 27. Engaging project stakeholders 28. Project leadership model 29. Balanced leadership 30. Motivation of young project professionals 31. Managing diversity 32. Behavioral bias 33. Ethics Part V: Portfolio 34. Managing programs 35. Managing project portfolios 36. Managing project sequences 37. Machine learning in project portfolio selection 38. **Organizational project management 39. The project-oriented organization 40. The governance of projects 41. The PMO Part VI: Perspectives** 42. Projectification of society 43. Quality of life in smart cities 44. A reflection