Advances in Project Management

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Series Editor: Professor Darren Dalcher

 

Advances in Project Management
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Project management has become a key competence for most organisations in the public and private sectors. Driven by recent business trends such as fewer management layers, greater flexibility, increasing geographical distribution and more project-based work, project management has grown beyond its roots in the construction, engineering and aerospace industries to transform the service, financial, computer, and general management sectors. In fact, a Fortune article rated project management as the number one career choice at the beginning of the 21st century.

Yet many organisations have struggled in applying the traditional models of project management to their new projects in the global environment. Project management offers a framework to help organisations to transform their mainstream operations and service performance. It is viewed as a way of organising for the future. Moreover, in an increasingly busy, stressful, and uncertain world it has become necessary to manage several projects successfully at the same time. According to some estimates the world annually spends well over $10 trillion (US) on projects. In the UK alone, more than £250 billion is spent on projects every year. Up to half of these projects fail! A major ingredient in the build-up leading to failure is often cited as the lack of adequate project management knowledge and experience.

Some organizations have responded to this situation by trying to improve the understanding and capability of their managers and employees who are introduced to projects, as well as their experienced project managers in an attempt to enhance their competence and capability in this area..

Advances in Project Management provides short, state of play, guides to the main aspects of the new emerging applications including: maturity models, agile projects, extreme projects, six sigma and projects, human factors and leadership in projects, project governance, value management, virtual teams, project benefits.


'For a book which tackles a complex subject with breadth, insight and novelty - it's remarkable that it is also a really good read.' What the reviewers have said about the series...

 

About the Editor:

Professor Darren Dalcher, HonFAPM, FRSA, FBCS, CITP, FCMI is founder and Director of the National Centre for Project Management, a Professor of Project Management at The University of Hertfordshire  and Visiting Professor of Computer Science at the University of Iceland. Contact details: University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, AL10 9AB, United Kingdom, e-mail d.dalcher2@herts.ac.uk, phone +44 (0)1707 284930.