Project Management Best Practices : achieving global excellence

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Preface -- 1 Understanding Best Practices -- 1.0 Introduction -- 1.1 WÃ RTSILÃ -- 1.2 Project Management Best Practices: 1945â 1960 -- 1.3 Project Management Best Practices: 1960â 1985 -- 1.4 Project Management Best Practices: 1985â 2016 -- 1.5 Project Management Best Practices: 2016â Present -- 1.6 Benefits Management Practice at Dubai Customs -- 1.7 An Executiveâ s View of Project Management -- 1.8 Best Practices Process -- 1.9 Step 1: Definition of a Best Practice -- 1.10 Step 2: Seeking Out Best Practices -- 1.11 Dashboards and Scorecards -- 1.12 Key Performance Indicators -- 1.13 Step 3: Validating the Best Practice -- 1.14 Step 4: Levels of Best Practices -- 1.15 Step 5: Management of Best Practices -- 1.16 Step 6: Revalidating Best Practices -- 1.17 Step 7: What to Do with a Best Practice -- 1.18 Step 8: Communicating Best Practices across the Company -- 1.19 Step 9: Ensuring Usage of the Best Practices -- 1.20 Common Beliefs -- 1.21 Best Practices Library -- 1.22 Hewlett-Packard: Best Practices in Action -- Notes -- 2 From Best Practice to Migraine Headache -- 2.0 Introduction -- 2.1 Good Intentions Becoming Migraines -- 2.2 Enterprise Project Management Methodology Migraine -- 2.3 Trade-off Migraine -- 2.4 Customer Satisfaction Migraine -- 2.5 Migraine Resulting from Responding to Changing Customer Requirements -- 2.6 Reporting Level of the PMO Migraine -- 2.7 Cash Flow Dilemma Migraine -- 2.8 Scope Change Dilemma Migraine -- 2.9 Outsource or Not Migraine -- 2.10 Determining When to Cancel a Project Migraine -- 2.11 Providing Project Awards Migraine -- 2.12 Migraine from Having the Wrong Culture in Place -- 2.13 Migraines Due to Politics -- 2.14 Migraines Caused by the Seven Deadly Sins -- 2.15 Sources of Smaller Headaches -- 2.16 Ten Uglies of Projects -- Notes