Books in the Advances in Project Management series

If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always got, and if it's not good enough, you need to do something else. As project complexity increases, so too does the need to do new things. This book addresses the issues of a complex, unstable, uncertain environment with all its associated difficulties.

Many organisations have struggled to apply the traditional models of project management to their new projects in the global environment. Indeed, projects continue to fail at an alarming rate. A major part of the build-up to failure is often the lack of adequate project management knowledge and experience.

Managing Quality in Projects shines the spotlight on an aspect of project management that can often be overshadowed by the pressure to deliver on time and on budget. Ron Basu's investigation focuses initially on defining the dimensions of quality in project management and identifying sources of measurement for project excellence.

Dealing effectively with uncertainty requires the project manager to be familiar with a broad spectrum of strategies, encompassing both 'hard' and 'soft' methods. This title brings together the thinking from a variety of disciplines and shows how these techniques can be used to conquer uncertainty in projects.

How relevant is ethics to project management? The book - which aims to demystify the field of ethics for project managers and managers in general - takes both a critical and a practical look at project management in terms of success criteria, and ethical opportunities and risks.

Projects have always been essentially human endeavours. The spirituality that originally defined some of the great construction projects of the classical era surely has a role in project management today. This book explains the context for spirituality in projects and explores how it can be used to create a larger sense of purpose and achievement.

The success of any project relies on the punctual, accurate and cost-effective delivery of materials, systems and facilities. This title demonstrates how customised supply chain management can be applied to project management, ensuring project resources are delivered as required, reducing delays and costs and promoting a successful outcome.

The concept of sustainability has grown in recognition and importance. This title explores and identifies the questions surrounding the integration of the concepts of sustainability in projects and project management and provides guidance and insights.

Explains what customer-centricity means in terms of how you work and its importance for project performance. This title uses tools and processes to guide customer-centric thinking to help you see the results of engagement and demonstrates how things can improve, even on difficult projects.

From the perspective of delivering successful projects, the value of a skilled project sponsor and project manager outweighs many other factors. This book explains the key leadership models of managerial, intellectual and emotional leadership and shows how they can be applied within projects to lead processes, functions and people.

Helps professionals understand the limitations of the risk management techniques. This title introduces the concepts of societal benefit and behavioural risk, and illustrates why project risk has followed a particular path, developing from the basis of engineering, science and mathematics.

Project practice has undergone significant changes requiring new ways of thinking about and managing projects. The main aims of the collection are to reflect on the state of practice within the discipline; to propose new extensions and additions to good practice; to offer new insights and perspectives; to distil new knowledge; and, to provide a way of sampling a range of the most promising ideas, perspectives and styles of writing from some of the leading thinkers and practitioners in the discipline. Key topics covered include agility and programme management, planning, people, business cases, contracts, teams, sponsorship, collaboration, strategy, patterns, context, change, and benefits.

On the evidence of the authors of Advances in Project Management: Narrated Journeys in Unchartered Territory, there is a sea change coming. That change will affect the way projects are perceived, lead and governed, particularly in the context of the wider organisation to which they belong; whether that is in the public, private or not-for-profit sectors. Many organisations have struggled to apply the traditional models of project management to their new projects in the global environment. Anecdotal and evidence-based research confirms that projects continue to fail at an alarming rate. A major part of the build-up to failure is often the lack of adequate project management knowledge and experience. Advances in Project Management covers key areas of improvement in understanding and project capability further up the management chain; amongst strategy and senior decision makers and amongst professional project and programme managers. This collection, drawn from some of the worldΓÇÖs leading practitioners and researchers and compiled by Professor Darren Dalcher of the National Centre for Project Management, provides those people and organisations who are involved with the developments in project management with the kind of structured information, new approaches and novel perspectives that will inform their thinking and their practice and improve their decisions.

The chapters collated in this volume bring together leading authorities on topics that are relevant to the management, leadership, governance and delivery of projects.

The chapters collated in this volume bring together leading authorities on topics that are relevant to the management, leadership, governance and delivery of projects.

Success in business depends on two broad management skills: 'doing the right thing' (choosing the right projects) and 'doing things right' (good project management). This book examines the challenges that managers face in assessing the likely risks and benefits that need to be taken into account when choosing projects.

Explains when, why and how NPV models should be built for projects and how this approach can be integrated with the risk management process. This book shows how project financial forecasting and risk management principles can be used both to improve NPV forecasts and to shape the project solution into one that is risk-robust.