Project Management Predictive Principles and Practices covers the predictive (traditional) project management approach with a focus on multi-company projects. The book is unique in it’s straight-forward description of the principles and practices for creating and managing project organizations emphasizing cross company cooperation and the use of customer supplier collaboration to build synergy and increase success. It presents predictive principles from a large multi-company project perspective. In application, the holistic view is tailored to fit the project circumstances by selecting the appropriate inputs, tools, techniques, and outputs to achieve the desired project outcome.
The first chapter provides an overview of Project Management in the typical customer supplier environment covering the full spectrum of approaches from predictive to agile. It covers topics common to both approaches. The balance of the book organization consists of five chapters addressing the Predictive approach. Predictive also known as the traditional or waterfall approach creates a plan for the entire project at the outset that is one extreme of the project management spectrum. It has a defined scope, minimizes change, and is process based using a framework of inputs, tools and techniques, and outputs (ITTO’s). Chapters two through six (Cooperate, Communicate, Coordinate, Control, and Complete) describe the elements of predictive following the normal flow in executing a project. Numerous tools, checklists, sample agendas, and actual experiences in applying the predictive approach to strategic equipment acquisition projects support the process descriptions. The objective is to provide the reader with a detailed plan that is easily adapted for implementing predictive project management on projects in manufacturing, construction, retail, finance, information technology, and any other business or industry environment.
The end of each chapter of Project Management Predictive Principles and Practices lists exercises from the Predictive Projects eWorkbook by topic that relate to the chapter. Readers desiring to learn by doing, select topics and exercises from the eWorkbook to fit their learning goals and time constraints. Performing exercises, allows readers to gain experience and practice applying the principles.