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	Goal Directed Project Management, 3/E by Erling S Andersen, Kristoffer V Grude & Tor Haug
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Description: Goal Directed Project Management (GDPM) is a unique methodology that has been developed and refined by the authors over 20 years. During this period, GDPM has been adopted as a standard approach by organizations all over the world.

This fully updated third edition of Goal Directed Project Management highlights the close relationship between managing change and the key ideas of GDPM. The central focus of GDPM is to develop an understanding of, and commitment to, managing successful and lasting change. Throughout the text, the authors constantly emphasize the need to develop people’s involvement and commitment to the project. The authors refer to this as "PSO" (people, systems and organization). Goal Directed Project Management gives detailed and practical guidance on how to plan, organize and control these PSO project effectively by presenting the methods and the tools that will significantly increase the probability of success.

The authors and editors have established a company for developing software to support the method, GDPM Systems Ltd. www.gdpmsystems.com

Contents: Introduction • Outline • About PSO projects • Goal directed project management • Project characteristics • A unique task • Attainment of a specific result • Requires a variety of resources • Time constaints • Project management • Pitfalls in project management • Cracks in the foundation • Pitfalls in planning • Pitfalls in organizing • Pitfalls in controlling • Pitfalls in execution of project work • Avoiding pitfalls • Foundation of the project • Global planning – milestone planning • Principles of project planning • Segmentation of project • Practical milestone planning • Global organizing – milestone responsibility chart • Detail planning and detail organization • Activity planning • Project control • Principles of project control • Controlling activities • Controlling milestones • Quality in project work • Procedures to increase quality • Quality of planning documents • Project culture • A good project culture • Top management • Line management • Project owner • Steering commitee • Project manager • Elected representatives • A projectivity programme • Goal directed project management – example and summary • IT support • Example project ‘New possibilities in new premises’ • Is the ‘requirement specification’ fulfilled? • Final comments.ISBN - 9788175542907

Pages : 248