Book Structure
Financially Focused Project Management (FFPM) contains fourteen chapters and four case studies. The chapters are as follows:
- Update on Project Management
- Project Management Overview
- Human Aspects of Project Management
- The Project Team
- Project Management Office, Portfolio Management and Partnering
- Proposals and Pricing
- Project Planning
- Assessing Project Risks and Potential Impacts
- Project Resource Management and Performance Measurement
- Project Audit, Termination and Closure
- Financial Administration and financially Focused Project Management Training
- Financially Focused Project Management Performers and Components
- The Role of Quality in Project Management
- Project Management in the 21st Century
Case Study A is a brief description of the Lockheed Corporation and Martin Marietta merger in 1994 and the application of FFPM. Case Study B, "Perky Pets" is a fictional study based on real-life manufacturing goals and objectives. Case Study C is based on a factual case of implementing FFPM in a major software development project and Case Study D describes the application of FFPM to the service industry, a hotel courtesy car service. Each chapter and case study concludes with a brief set of self-study/discussion questions.
The book text is well laid out and liberally punctuated with illustrative charts, diagrams and bulleted lists, all of which makes for easy reading.
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Introduction
