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Acknowledgments | |
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Preface | |
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Setting Up the Project Management Operation | |
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About Projects and Project Management | |
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Organizing for Project Management | |
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Does Your Company Need a CPO? | |
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Implementing a Computer-based Project Management Capability | |
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Getting Started | |
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Project Initiation Techniques | |
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Do You Weebis? Clarifying WBS, OBS, and RBS | |
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Project Life Cycles | |
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Scheduling | |
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Critical Path Scheduling | |
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Critical Path, Critical Chain, and Uncertainty: Exploring Concepts of Shared Contingency | |
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Estimating Task Durations | |
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How Important Are Schedules and Time Compression? | |
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Practical Scheduling | |
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Resource and Workforce Management | |
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An Overview of the Different Elements of Resource Management | |
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Role-based Needs for Managing Resources in a Project-driven Organization | |
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Resource Leveling and Games of Chance | |
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Practical Resource Scheduling | |
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Budgeting and Cost Control | |
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Concepts and Issues of Project Budgeting and Cost Control | |
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Software Support for Cost Management | |
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Risk Management and Contingency | |
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Using and Managing Contingency | |
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Risk Management for the Sigmaphobic: Managing Schedule, Cost, and Technical Risk and Contingency | |
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Some Computer-based Approaches to Schedule Risk Analysis | |
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Maintaining the Plan | |
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Change Control and Scope Management | |
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Real-time Status versus Period Data | |
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Automatic Project Management: A Classic Oxymoron | |
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Performance Measurement | |
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Measuring the Value of Work Accomplishment | |
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Project Portfolio Management | |
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Defining and Implementing Project Portfolio Management | |
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Bridging the Gap between Operations Management and Projects Management: The Important Role of Project Portfolio Management | |
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Project Selection and Risk: Risk Management Is an Essential Part of Project Portfolio Management | |
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Project Management, Enterprise Project Management, and Enterprise Resource Planning | |
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The Search for Automated, Integrated, Enterprise-wide Project Management: Minnesota Smith and the Temple of Unrealized Dreams | |
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Integrating PM and ERP | |
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Project Management and Professional Services Automation | |
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Defining the PSA Market | |
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Building PSA Solutions | |
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Tools of the Trade | |
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A Simplified and Balanced Approach to PM Software Selection | |
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New Names for Old Games: Rebadging Sound and Proven PM Concepts | |
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The e Revolution: Collaboration Services, B2B, Gateways | |
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Making Project Management Work | |
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Implementing Project Management: Commitment and Training Ensure Success | |
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Making Project Communication Work: Everything You Need to Know about Project Communication | |
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Why Project Management Implementation Programs Fail | |
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Teams, Task Forces, and Bureaucrats | |
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The Psychological Contract: How to Stimulate Initiative and Innovation in Any Organization | |
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Shared Rewards | |
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Index | |