Mastering Principles and Practices in PMBOK, Prince 2, and Scrum: Using Essential Project Management Methods to Deliver Effective and Efficient Projects (FT Press Project Management) - Hardcover

Roudias, Jihane

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0134060814 ISBN 13: 9780134060811

Publisher: Pearson FT Press, 2015

PMBOK®, PRINCE2®, and Scrum are today's three most widely recognized project management standards. The most successful project managers know how to draw on all three, and often combine them to deliver their projects more effectively and efficiently. In Mastering Principles and Practices in PMBOK, Prince2, and Scrum, Jihane Roudias shows project managers how these methods complement each other, how to integrate them, and how to troubleshoot projects involving any or all of them. Roudias illuminates core project concepts, processes, and areas of knowledge in each methodology, guides you in synthesizing them, and reviews the types of difficulties you may encounter in each project process. Drawing on extensive personal experience, Roudias also emphasizes the importance of project risk management, monitoring, and evaluation systems – and demonstrates how to use them to make timely and informed decisions at every stage of your project. For every project management practitioner and student pursuing PMBOK/PMI, PRINCE2, and/or Scrum certification, or seeking to use these methodologies together to achieve better project performance.

From the Back Cover:

All You Need to Know to Leverage Today’s Three Leading Approaches to Project Management

• The first PM guide designed to help you benefit from PMBOK®,PRINCE2®, and Scrum
• Helps you quickly adapt to any PM environment, worldwide
• Identifies new ways to improve project performance by integrating multiple methodologies
• Offers valuable insights into risk management, monitoring, evaluation, and problem solving

PMBOK®, PRINCE2®, and Scrum are today’s three most widely used project management standards. The most successful project managers know how to draw on all three and even combine them to deliver projects more effectively and efficiently. In this unique guidebook, Jihane

Roudias shows project managers how these methods complement each other, how to integrate them, and how to troubleshoot projects involving any or all of them.

 

Roudias illuminates core project concepts, processes, and areas of knowledge in each methodology, helps you synthesize them, and reviews obstacles you may encounter in each project process. Drawing on extensive personal experience, Roudias also shows how to use project risk management and monitoring and evaluation systems to make timely and informed decisions at every project stage.

 

Whatever your PM role, this tutorial will help you earn the certification you want, as you use today’s best methodologies to achieve outstanding project performance.

 

Every significant project follows roughly similar processes, but not every project relies on the same methodologies. Throughout North America and the Middle East, PMP’s PMBOK® is most widely used, offering prescriptive answers to important how questions about project management. Throughout the UK and Europe and in many Australian organizations, you may be likelier to encounter PRINCE2® descriptive methodology, focusing primarily on what, when, and whom issues. Third, there’s Scrum, today’s #1 agile framework for rapidly delivering high-value software.

 

As a modern project manager, you may encounter any or all of these approaches. What’s more, they complement each other: if you understand them all, you can integrate them to deliver projects even more successfully. Now, in this one-of-a-kind guidebook, expert project manager Jihane Roudias presents the essence of all three, helping you apply whatever PM methods offer the most value wherever you are.

 

Roudias offers concise, insightful coverage of PM principles, phases, roles, responsibilities, problem-solving, risk management, monitoring,

evaluation, certification, and more. If you’re a working PM or student who wants to succeed in new areas or global environments, this is your ideal resource.

• Understand and apply all three leading PM approaches: PMBOK 5th Edition, PRINCE2, and Scrum
• Discover opportunities to improve performance by drawing on multiple methodologies
• Anticipate and successfully manage difficulties throughout each project’s lifecycle
• Use risk management, monitoring, and evaluation to make informed and timely decisions
• Improve agility by leveraging Scrum’s iterative approach in software-intensive projects
• Succeed in international PM roles with methods you haven’t used before

About the Author:

Jihane Roudias is a monitoring and evaluation analyst in the United Nations Development Program, Morocco Country Office (UNDP).

 

She joined the UN in 2006 and has held appointments in different program positions in UNICEF and UNDP. Prior to her work with the UN, she was employed as a store sales director with one of the most important French ready-to-wear companies.

 

Jihane serves as an expert on results-based management and monitoring and evaluation training within the UN system. She conducts projects, program reviews, and evaluations and advises others on them, from the planning to the closing phases. She supports the implementation of monitoring and evaluation systems within projects and institutions, and she is in charge of HIV AIDS issues.

 

Jihane holds a bachelor in finance from the Paris Graduate School of Management in Paris, a master in finance engineering from Nice Sophia-Antipolis University, and an IPDET certificate from Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. She is currently a doctoral student in management with the American University of Leadership in Orlando.

• Publisher: Pearson FT Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0134060814
• ISBN 13: 9780134060811
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 240