Project Management Process Improvement

Description

No matter how perfect a project plan may be on paper, it is worthless if nobody actually uses it. This truism is an everyday reality for too many project managers who muster all their expertise writing the perfect plan only to watch the project fall off course as team members jettison the plan to follow their own agenda. This book culls the best practices from CMM (Capability Maturity Model) and PMBOK (Project Management Body of Knowledge), the de-facto standards for process improvement and project management, to show project managers how to ensure that their project plans are not only perfect on paper but also perfect in practice. Professionals learn how to identify the underlying reasons why projects fall to progress as planned and discover the steps to creating a solid process improvement program that leads to project success.


Contents:

Introduction to the Process Improvement Life Cycle

Overview of the Project Management Maturity Model

Assessing Current Maturity Level Metrics to identify improvement Opportunities

Tools to investigate improvement Opportunities

Commissioning improvement initiatives

Measuring the effectiveness of improvement initiatives.