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Senior executives and project managers from more than 50 world-class companies offer their best practices for successful project management implementation
The first two editions of the bestselling Project Management Best Practices helped project managers navigate the increasingly complex task of working within global corporations employing distant and diverse work teams. This new Third Edition includes the same valuable wealth of proven best practices, while following up on case studies from previous editions and offering new case studies on project management practices at large and small companies.

The Third Edition offers insight from project managers and executives at more than fifty global companies in all sectors of the market. These industry-leading professionals offer insight and best practices for:

Project risk management
Project management for multinational cultures and cultural failures
Focusing on value, as well as cost and schedule
Integrated and virtual project teams
Covering the latest developments in the project management field, Project Management Best Practices, Third Edition offers a must-have window into the issues and solutions facing corporate managers, project and team managers, engineers, project team members, and business consultants in today´s global market.



Table of Contents

Preface xiii
1 Understanding Best Practices 1

1.0 Introduction 1

1.1 Wärtsilä 2

1.2 Project Management Best Practices: 1945-1960 3

1.3 Project Management Best Practices: 1960-1985 5

1.4 Project Management Best Practices: 1985-2014 8

1.5 An Executive's View of Project Management 13

1.6 Best Practices Process 17

1.7 Step 1: Definition of a Best Practice 18

1.8 Step 2: Seeking Out Best Practices 22

1.9 Dashboards and Scorecards 33

1.10 Key Performance Indicators 36

1.11 Step 3: Validating the Best Practice 41

1.12 Step 4: Levels of Best Practices 44

1.13 Step 5: Management of Best Practices 46

1.14 Step 6: Revalidating Best Practices 46

1.15 Step 7: What to Do with a Best Practice 47

1.16 Step 8: Communicating Best Practices across the Company 48

1.17 Step 9: Ensuring Usage of the Best Practices 51

1.18 Common Beliefs 51

1.19 Best Practices Library 52

1.20 Hewlett-Packard: Best Practices in Action 54

1.21 DTE Energy 57

1.22 A Consultant's View of Project Management and Best Practices 61

2 From Best Practice to Migraine Headache 67

2.0 Introduction 67

2.1 Good Intentions Becoming Migraines 67

2.2 Enterprise Project Management Methodology Migraine 69

2.3 Customer Satisfaction Migraine 69

2.4 Migraine Resulting from Responding to Changing Customer Requirements 70

2.5 Reporting Level of the PMO Migraine 71

2.6 Cash Flow Dilemma Migraine 71

2.7 Scope Change Dilemma Migraine 72

2.8 Outsource or Not Migraine 73

2.9 Determining When to Cancel a Project Migraine 73

2.10 Providing Project Awards Migraine 74

2.11 Migraine from Having the Wrong Culture in Place 75

2.12 Migraines due to Politics 76

2.13 Migraines Caused by the Seven Deadly Sins 83

2.14 Sources of Smaller Migraines 94

2.15 Ten Uglies of Projects 97

References 105

3 Journey to Excellence 107

3.0 Introduction 107

3.1 Strategic Planning for Project Management 109

3.2 Hitachi Ltd. 118

3.3 KONE: The Project Management Challenge 130

3.4 The Light at the End of the Tunnel 133

3.5 Goodyear 136

3.6 Managing Assumptions 140

3.7 Managing Assumptions in Conservation Projects-WWF International 140

3.8 Project Governance 142

3.9 Seven Fallacies That Delay Project Management Maturity 146

3.10 Motorola 148

3.11 Texas Instruments 149

3.12 Hewlett-Packard: Recognizing the Need 152

3.13 Hewlett-Packard: The Journey and the Obstacles 153

3.14 CooperStandard 160

3.15 Naviair: On Time-on Budget 166

3.16 DTE Energy 175

3.17 Key Plastics 176

3.18 ILLUMINAT and the Strategic Business of Project Management 179

3.19 Avalon Power and Light 183

3.20 Roadway Express 184

3.21 Defcon Corporation 185

3.22 Kombs Engineering 187

3.23 Williams Machine Tool Company 188

4 Project Management Methodologies 191

4.0 Introduction 191

4.1 Excellence Defined 192

4.2 Recognizing the Need for Methodology Development 196

4.3 Enterprise Project Management Methodologies 199

4.4 Benefits of a Standard Methodology 204

4.5 Critical Components 205

4.6 SAP 207

4.7 Cassidian: Integrated Multilevel Schedules 211

4.8 Tecnicas Reunidas 213

4.9 Teradyne: From Myth to Reality 220

4.10 Slalom Consulting: Project Management Functions 224

4.11 Slalom Consulting: Replacing Methodologies with Frameworks 226

4.12 Life-Cycle Phases 228

4.13 Expanding Life-Cycle Phases 230

4.14 Churchill Downs, Incorporated 230

4.15 Indra: The Need for a Methodology 232

4.16 Implementing the Methodology 233

4.17 Implementation Blunders 235

4.18 Overcoming Development and Implementation Barriers 235

4.19 Project Management Tools 236

4.20 Wärtsilä: Recognizing the Need for Supporting Tools 242

4.21 Tech Mahindra Limited: Project Process Monitoring 244

4.22 Tech Mahindra Limited: Customer Delight Index for Projects 247

4.23 General Motors Powertrain Group 251

4.24 Ericsson Telecom AB 252

4.25 Indra: Closing the Project 255

4.26 Repsol: The Repsol E&P GIP Methodology-The Project Quality Management Process Applied to Decision Making 258

4.27 Rockwell Automation: Quest for a Common Process 266

4.28 Sherwin-Williams 271

4.29 Medical Mutual 275

4.30 Holcim 278

4.31 Westfield Group 281

4.32 Hewlett-Packard 284

4.33 DTE Energy 286

4.34 ALSTOM 293

4.35 Cassidian: Golden Rules in Project Management 297

4.36 When Traditional Methodologies May Not Work 299

5 Integrated Processes 303

5.0 Introduction 303

5.1 Understanding Integrated Management Processes 304

5.2 Evolution of Complementary Project Management Processes 305

5.3 Zurich America Insurance Company 309

5.4 Total Quality Management 310

5.5 Concurrent Engineering 315

5.6 Risk Management 315

5.7 Wärtsilä: The Need for Proactive Risk Management 318

5.8 ILLUMINAT: Effective Risk Management 321

5.9 Indra: When a Risk Becomes Reality (Issue Management) 325

5.10 The Failure of Risk Management 327

5.11 Defining Maturity Using Risk Management 328

5.12 Boeing Aircraft Company 329

5.13 Change Management 330

5.14 Other Management Processes 331

5.15 Hewlett-Packard 331

5.16 Earned-Value Measurement 333

5.17 DTE Energy 333

6 Culture 335

6.0 Introduction 335

6.1 Creation of a Corporate Culture 336

6.2 Corporate Values 338

6.3 Types of Cultures 338

6.4 Corporate Cultures at Work 340

6.5 Indra: Building a Cohesive Culture 343

6.6 maxIT-VCS 346

6.7 DFCU Financial 348

6.8 Illuminat (Trinidad & Tobago) Limited 363

6.9 DTE Energy 365

6.10 Hewlett-Packard 366

6.11