Drawing on more than
twenty-five years experience consulting and training on project management in companies
such as NCR, AT&T, and 3M, J. Davidson Frame updates and expands what he introduced in
the first edition of The New Project Management in 1994-a set of core competencies
for managerial success in a corporate climate where downsizing, outsourcing, and employee
empowerment are a way of life. This new edition focuses on the hottest areas in project
management today-augmenting and expanding the existing coverage of risk management and
estimating, and including three all-new chapters on critical issues that did not even
exist in 1994.
J. Davidson Frame is
Dean of Academic Affairs at the University of Management and Technology (UMT) in
Arlington, Virginia. Prior to joining UMT, he established the project management program
at George Washington University. He also served as director of the Project Management
Certification Program at the Project Management Institute (PMI) and has served on PMI's
board of directors. Frame has authored more than forty articles and five books, including Project
Management Competence (Jossey-Bass, 1999).
Table of Contents
Preface.
The Author.
1. The New Business
Environment and the Need for a New Project Management.
Part One: Managing in the
New Business Environment.
2. Managing Complexity:
Techniques for Fashioning Order out of Chaos.
3. Engaging Change: Knowing
When to Embrace, Accept, or Challenge.
4. Managing Risk:
Identifying, Analyzing, and Planning Responses.
5. Satisfying Customers:
Knowing Who They Are, What They Want, and When They Are Right or Wrong.
6. Defining Requirements
That Bridge the Customer-Developer Gap.
Part Two: Tools for the New
Project Management.
7. Acquiring Political
Skills and Building Influence.
8. Building Teams with
Borrowed Resources.
9. Selecting Projects That
Will Lead to Success.
10. Estimating Realistic
Costs, Schedules, and Specifications to Ensure Project Success.
11. Scheduling Projects with
New Tools: The Time-Boxed and Critical Chain Scheduling Techniques.
12. Outsourcing to Control
Costs, Focus on Core Work, and Expand Resources.
13. Integrating Cost and
Schedule Control to Measure Work Performance.
14. Evaluating Projects to
Maintain Goals, Strengthen Accountability, and Achieve Objectives.
15. Understanding and Using
Performance Metrics: Measuring the Right Stuff.
16. Establishing and
Maintaining a Project Support Office to Strengthen Project Management Capabilities.
17. Carpe Diem: Seize the
Day!
References.
Index.
360 pages