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<P>Introduction </P><P>PART 1</P><P>Practical Theory </P><P>1 The project </P><P>1.1 Types of activities, types of work </P><P>1.2 Examples of projects </P><P>1.3 What is a project? </P><P>1.4 Moving from improvised to project based to routine activities </P><P>1.5 Types of projects </P><P>1.6 Things to remember </P><P>1.7 Doing things in phases </P><P>1.8 Why do things in phases? </P><P>1.9 The phases of a project: an illustration </P><P>1.10 When to do it as a project </P><P>1.11 Lifecycle of a project </P><P>1.12 Projects should be SMART </P><P>1.13 Carrying out the projects in this book </P><P>Assignments </P><P>2 People working on projects </P><P>2.1 Line organisation </P><P>2.2 The project organisation </P><P>2.3 The project sponsor </P><P>2.4 Future users </P><P>2.5 The project manager </P><P>2.6 The project members </P><P>2.7 Relationship sponsor and project manager </P><P>2.8 Task-oriented and people-oriented leadership </P><P>2.9 Working on a project </P><P>2.10 Team roles according to Belbin </P><P>2.11 Digital tools for collaboration </P><P>2.12 Team agreements </P><P>2.13 Creativity and brainstorming </P><P>2.14 Negotiating </P><P>2.15 Making decisions in a project </P><P>2.16 Related projects </P><P>2.17 Outsourcing a project </P><P>2.18 Projects and cultural differences </P><P>Assignments </P><P>3 The project from start to finish </P><P>3.1 Organising and carrying out the project </P><P>3.2 Reasons for starting the project </P><P>3.3 From reasons to do a project to actually doing the project itself </P><P>3.4 Project proposal </P><P>3.5 Initial meeting with the sponsor </P><P>3.6 Setting up the project </P><P>3.7 Project start-up meeting </P><P>3.8 Design and preparation </P><P>3.9 Realisation of the project result </P><P>3.10 Completion of the project </P><P>3.11 Project in time </P><P>3.12 Monitoring aspects of a project </P><P>3.13 Monitoring projects in practice </P><P>3.14 Why projects fail </P><P>3.15 Project risks </P><P>3.16 Terminating a project prematurely </P><P>3.17 Project management: methods </P><P>Assignments </P><P>4 Planning </P><P>4.1 Why plan? </P><P>4.2 Concepts and terms </P><P>4.3 Gantt charts </P><P>4.4 Network diagrams </P><P>4.5 Deriving a Gantt chart from a network diagram </P><P>4.6 Adjustments to a planning </P><P>4.7 Which activities are required? </P><P>4.8 Planning software </P><P>4.9 Using planning software </P><P>4.10 Planning a large project in phases </P><P>4.11 Time management </P><P>4.12 Mini-course on MS Project on the website </P><P>Assignments </P><P>PART 2</P><P>How to do a project: methods and tools </P><P>5 How to do a project -- the P6-Method </P><P>5.1 The P6-Method </P><P>5.2 Overview of the six steps </P><P>5.3 Step 1: Initiating the project </P><P>5.4 Step 2: Organising the project </P><P>5.5 Step 3: Writing a project plan </P><P>5.6 Step 4: Executing the project </P><P>5.7 Step 5: Delivering the project's results </P><P>5.8 Step 6: Finalizing the project </P><P>Assignments </P><P>6 Writing a project plan </P><P>6.1 The project plan </P><P>6.2 Dividing the project plan into sections </P><P>6.3 Background information </P><P>6.4 The project's results </P><P>6.5 Project activities </P><P>6.6 Project scope and conditions </P><P>6.7 Intermediate results </P><P>6.8 Quality control </P><P>6.9 The project organisation </P><P>6.10 Planning </P><P>6.11 Costs and benefits </P><P>6.12 Risk analysis </P><P>6.13 Writing the project plan </P><P>6.14 The project's files </P><P>Assignments </P><P>7 Using Scrum </P><P>7.1 Scrum </P><P>7.2 Scrum applications </P><P>7.3 The benefits and drawbacks of Scrum </P><P>7.4 Scrum components </P><P>7.5 Roles within Scrum </P><P>7.6 Information during the Scrum process </P><P>7.7 Meetings during the Scrum process </P><P>Assignments </P><P>8 Organising meetings </P><P>8.1 Project meeting </P><P>8.2 Preparing for the meeting </P><P>8.3 The meeting's agenda </P><P>8.4 The meeting itself </P><P>8.5 After the meeting </P><P>Assignments </P><P>9 Conducting interviews </P><P>9.1 Types of interviews </P><P>9.2 The three stages of an interview </P><P>Assignments </P><P>10 Writing a report </P><P>10.1 Preparing to write the report </P><P>10.2 Putting the report together </P><P>10.3 The structure of the report </P><P>10.4 The main contents and finishing touches to the report </P><P>Assignments </P><P>11 Holding a presentation </P><P>11.1 Organisation and contents of a presentation </P><P>11.2 Using an overhead projector or screen </P><P>11.3 The structure of a presentation </P><P>11.4 The presentation itself </P><P>Assignments </P><P>12 Making an executive summary </P><P>12.1 The purpose of an executive summary </P><P>12.2 The components of an executive summary </P><P>Assignments </P><P>Final Assignments </P><P>Appendix 1 Risk Analysis </P><P>Appendix 2 Website www.projectmanagement-english.noordhoff.nl </P><P>Bibliography </P><P>About the author </P><P>Index </P>

Project Management introduces business and management students to project-based working as a means to tackle projects successfully in a unique and accessible way. Not only in business circles, but also in the field of education, increasingly more activities are performed using a project-based approach. Consider, for example, comprehensive study assignments, internal projects and projects during work placements and the final stages of a degree. This book's line of approachis practice-oriented. Based on assignments, groups of two to three students work on a project plan and an executive summary. Students can also opt for a real' assignment for a company or for one of the cases of the accompanying website. Added to this fifth edition are examples and illustrations, new sections about various subjects and a chapter about the flexible project approach Scrum.

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