Creating an Environment for Successful Projects SECOND EDITION

This new edition, has been thoroughly revised and includes the most current topics that are of interest to project managers such as portfolio management (managing all the projects that are being managed); the role of project teams and how apparently conflicting goals (such as increasing sales or reducing costs) can actually help teams come together instead of move apart; and the role of the chief project officer and examples of why it can be both successful and unsuccessful; project management information systems. The book also includes the PEAT tool covered in "Creating the Project Office" and a new Epilogue that provides a case study of an organization that has used these principles and thus created a vastly improved environment.

Creating an Environment for Successful Project is a landmark work that shows how to develop project management as an organizational practice. This second edition offers solid, results-oriented advice on how upper management can create an environment that supports the success of special projects and the development of new products.