Metrics for Project Management - Softcover

Rad, Parviz F; Levin, Ginger

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1567261663 ISBN 13: 9781567261660

Publisher: Management Concepts, 2005

Synopsis

Metrics for Project Management: A Formalized Approach describes a comprehensive set of project management metrics in an easy-to-read format. Through a unique presentation of metrics through the categories of "things," "people," and "enterprise," you'll learn how metrics can:

• Guide you toward informed decisions

• Help the enterprise recognize the sum of its collective capabilities

• Ensure that plans for producing and delivering products and services are consistently realistic, achievable, and attainable

• Link the efforts of individual team members with the overall success of the project

• Indirectly promote teamwork and improve team morale

This methodical, logical approach to metrics will help you:

• Gauge the success of the project team through specific tools

• Assess the motivation, performance, and behavior of team members

• Assess organizational capabilities and collective project management performance

• Handle enterprise issues: project management maturity, competency, and project portfolio management

• Establish a metrics program

• Select metrics and implement schedules

Clear and easy to understand, this book is a valuable guide to using these powerful techniques for performance improvement. With immense potential benefits, Metrics for Project Management is a smart investment for any organization.

About this title

About the Authors

Parviz F. Rad, Ph.D. is the Distinguished Service Professor and Director of the Graduate Project Management Program at the Stevens Institute of Technology. A noted author and lecturer, he is the editor of The Project Management Journal®.

Ginger Levin, DPA, is a senior consultant in project management with more than 25 years of experience in project management maturity assessments, development of training programs in project management, program evaluation and auditing, and organization development.

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.

Introduction: Advantages of Metrics-Based Project Management • What Is a Metric? • Metrics Categories • Project Things Metrics: Client Requirements • Detailed Project Plans • Conceptual Plans • Project Quality • Contracts • Monitoring Project Progress • Project Risk • Project Success Factors • Project People Metrics: People as Intellectual Resources • What Are People Metrics? • Motivation • Performance • Teamwork • Communications Management • Competency • Maturity of Teams and Organizations • Virtual Teams • Enterprise Metrics: Project Management Maturity • Focus of Organizational Metrics • Project Management Office • Work Breakdown Structure/Resource Breakdown Structure Templates for the Enterprise • Project Portfolio Management • Implementing a Metrics Program: Metrics Program Design • Attributes of Models and Indices • Schedule of Implementation

Edition details

• Publisher: Management Concepts
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1567261663
• ISBN 13: 9781567261660
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 365