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"Outside
of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside a dog
it’s too dark to read!"
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PMI Standard (from the PMI Melbourne Chapter)
These
standards are only
available for delivery in Australia - Payment is
made to the PMI
Melbourne Chapter.
Overseas: contact the PMI Bookstore at: www.pmibookstore.org
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A Guide to the Project Management
Body of Knowledge 4th Edition - the PMBOK® Guide
The PMBOK® Guide4th Edition is one of the most essential tools in the profession and is the de facto global standard for project management. The Fourth Edition continues the tradition of excellence in project management with a standard that is even easier to understand and implement with improved consistency and greater clarity. What’s new? - Standardised language has been used throughout the document to aid reader understanding. - New data flow diagrams clarify inputs and outputs for each process. - Greater attention has been placed on how Knowledge Areas integrate in the context of the Initiating, Planning, Executing, Monitoring & Controlling, and Closing process groups. - Two new processes are featured: Identify Stakeholders and Collect Requirements. Buy
on Line or request a quotation/invoice
Errata Sheet - Print run #1 (current stocks are #3) |
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The Standard
for Program Management - 2nd Edition
The Standard for Program Management defines a set of processes that represent generally recognised good practices in program management, as well as promote efficient and effective communication and coordination, among various project management groups including; program managers who would like to improve their skills, project managers who would like to understand more about the role of program managers, portfolio managers who want to learn about the interface between program and project managers and senior managers who would like to improve their understanding of program boards and steering committees. |
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The Standard
for
Portfolio Management - 2nd Edition Price: $82.50 + Delivery charges $13.20 The discipline of portfolio management is a means of helping organisations focus on both “doing work right,” and on “doing the right work.” The Standard for Portfolio Management provides a framework for you to use to take a comprehensive view of portfolios, group them for the most effective management, and ensure that all components are aligned strategically. In parallel to the growing acceptance and utilisation of project management, the discipline of portfolio management is gaining favour as a means of helping organisations remain effective and competitive. The Standard for Portfolio Management provides portfolio managers with a resource to help them develop professionally and achieve success for themselves and their Organisations. Within an organisation, a portfolio represents a collection of active programs, projects and other work undertaken at a specific point in time to help the organisation reach its strategic objectives. In essence, a portfolio reflects the priorities, investments and resource allocations of the organisation. Portfolio management, therefore, is the centralized management of one or more portfolios in order to achieve specific strategic business objectives. As a process, portfolio management enables organisations to identify, categorize, evaluate, select, prioritize, authorise, terminate and review various portfolio components to ensure their alignment with current and future business strategy and goals, which in turn helps the organisation optimise the use of its limited resources. Because portfolios address all aspects of an organisation, reaching into organisational functions such as finance, marketing, corporate communications and human resources, as well as strategic objectives, portfolio management has become a key method used to create and execute effective corporate governance frameworks. With this in mind, The Standard for Portfolio Management is designed to provide a guide to those processes generally recognised as good practices in portfolio management and focuses on portfolio management as it relates to the disciplines of program and project management. |
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Organisational
Project Management Maturity Model Knowledge Foundation
- 2nd Edition
OPM3 is a standard unlike other contemporary maturity models. The Knowledge Foundation is a supplemental book that contains the KNOWLEDGE piece, the first of the three interlocking elements of OPM3. The Knowledge Foundation describes organizational project management, organizational project management maturity, relevant Best Practices and how to use OPM3, with its various appendices and a Glossary offers a wealth of practical information. The concepts and methodology are straightforward and are clearly illustrated through informative figures and charts. This essential piece of OPM3 will lay the groundwork needed for users to move on to the ASSESSMENT and IMPROVEMENT elements, the remaining two interlocking elements of OPM3, available through the on-line 'Single' or 'Multi-User' versions of the tool. [ See more on OPM3 ] |
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Project Manager Competency
Development Framework - Second Edition Price: $66.00 + Delivery charges $13.20 The PMCD framework outlines the key dimensions of project management competency and identifies those competencies that are most likely to impact project manager performance. Project manager competency consists of three separate dimensions: • Knowledge – what a project manager knows about the application of processes, tools and techniques in project activities • Performance – how a project manager applies project management knowledge to meet project requirements • Personal – how a project manager behaves when performing activities in a project environment In order to be recognized as fully competent, a project manager must satisfy each of these three dimensions. [ See also PMI's Career Framework ] |
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The Practice
Standard for Scheduling Price: $60.50 + Delivery charges $13.20 Effective project scheduling is critical to the success of a project. The Practice Standard for Scheduling is a systematic guide describing hallmarks of an effective schedule methodology, as well as providing quantifiable means for assessing the maturity of a schedule model. Chapters: 1 - Intro (1 pg), 2 - Schedule development process (6 pgs), 3 - Good Practices (9 pgs), 4 - Scheduling Components (i.e. 33 page listing of items and characteristics: name, required/optional, calculated/manual, data format, behaviour description, good practices, associated component, definition), 5 - Conformance Index (2 pgs, and Conformance Scoring in App D), plus lengthy Glossary (20 pgs). [ See more on Scheduling ]
For implementation of
the
Practice Standard, see Mosaic's
'How
To' develop an effective schedule workshop [view
outline].
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The Practice
Standard for Project Configuration Management Price: $49.50 + Delivery charges $13.20 Project configuration management is the collective body of processes, activities, tools, and methods focused on establishing and maintaining the consistency of a system's or product's performance and its functional and physical attributes with its requirements, design, and operational information throughout its life. Configuration management is implemented to actively guide the direction of the project and support communication that will facilitate successful completion to specification. Due to the increasing complexity of projects and greater competition among companies, the knowledge of configuration management techniques is more important than ever. |
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The Practice
Standard for Project Risk Management Price: $60.50 + Delivery charges $13.20 The Practice Standard for Project Risk Management covers risk management as it is applied to single projects only and is consistent with other PMI standards. Written for project practitioners, this practice standard can be used to validate the risk management process being employed in a specific situation, project or organization. Topics include: • Plan Risk Management • Identify Risks • Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis • Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis • Plan Risk Responses • Monitor and Control Risks |
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Stakeholder Relationship
Management: A Maturity Model for Organisational
Implementation, Gower Publishing Ltd, Aldershot, UK. Author: Dr. Lynda Bourne Most organisations have difficulty implementing culture change, and will need assistance and guidance to implement a consistent process for identification and management of stakeholders and their (changing) expectations. As a continuous improvement process, stakeholder management requires understanding and support from everyone in the organisation from the CEO to the short-term contractor. This requires the concepts and practices of effective stakeholder management to become embedded in the culture of the organisation. This book provides the “road map” to help organizations achieve these objectives in two ways:
- Construction Books Direct, the official bookshop of the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB – UK) - The PMI Marketplace, the official bookshop of the Project Management Institute (PMI – USA) - Amazon: go to Amazon's SRM book page - And other good book shops. |
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Advising Upwards: A
Framework for Understanding and Engaging Senior Management Stakeholders,
Gower Publishing Ltd, Aldershot, UK. Editor: Dr. Lynda Bourne Studies have consistently shown that the active support of stakeholders from the Senior Leadership Team, particularly the sponsor, is a critical factor in creating successful outcomes. Successful activity managers not only understand this but are also willing to do whatever is necessary to ensure that their senior stakeholders understand and fulfil this support role. This requires the activity manager to be skilful at building and maintaining robust relationships, focused on engaging the support of senior executives, understanding their expectations and managing them through targeted communication. Effective communication helps change perceptions and adjust expectations (to make them more realistic and achievable), as well as helping to acquire the support necessary for successful delivery of the outcomes of the activities. The principal focus of the book will be on perspectives that will contribute towards an understanding of the critical survival skill of engaging senior managers, and of ‘helping them help you’. It will include:
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Project Relationship Management and the Stakeholder Circle: A guide for developing stakeholder management maturity in organisations ISBN: 978-3838398167 Project success and failure is related to stakeholders’ perceptions of the value created by the project and the nature of their relationship with the project team. It is strongly influenced by both the expectations and perceptions of the stakeholders, and the capability and willingness of project managers to effectively manage these relationships within the organisation’s political environment. The Stakeholder Circle® is based on the premise that a project can only exist with the informed consent of its stakeholder community. The methodology supported by the tool provides an effective mechanism for assessing the relative influence of a project’s stakeholders, understanding their expectations, and defining appropriate engagement procedures to influence the key stakeholders’ expectations and perceptions for the benefit of the project. The new approaches to project relationship management implicit in the Stakeholder Circle® methodology and visualisation tool will benefit organisations and their managers at all levels through improving the chances of project success. Buy the book from Amazon or download Lynda's original Doctoral Thesis from this web site. |
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Publication January 2011 |
Guide to
Good Practice in the Management of Time in Complex Projects.
Publication - January 2010: Wiley Blackwell
& CIOB
UK ISBN: 978-1-4443-3493-7 Without effective time management there can be no effective resource management, cost management or delay management. The primary purpose of this Guide is to set down the standards necessary to facilitate the effective and competent management of time in construction projects. It defines the standards by which project schedules will be prepared, quality controlled, updated, reviewed and revised in practice and describes the standards of performance which should reasonably be required of a project scheduler. The Guide has been developed as a scheduling reference document capable of wide application. It is a practical treatise on the processes to be followed and standards to be achieved in effective management of time. It can be used in any jurisdiction, under any form of contract, with any type of project and should be identified as the required standard for the preparation and updating of contract programmes, progress reporting and time management.
To be
updated on this publication, email: CIOB_Guide@mosaicprojects.com.au
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Managing Group Risk Attitude,
Gower Publishing, Aldershot. Authors: Ruth Murray-Webster and David Hillson, Foreword by Dr. Lynda Bourne [Read the Foreword] 'Managing Group Risk Attitude' looks at the challenges of understanding and managing the attitudes adopted by groups of people when faced with making decisions that they perceive as risky and important. It makes the link between risk management and decision-making explicit, building on existing work from the economic and risk psychology schools but taking a pragmatic, practitioner-focused approach that is relevant to all decision-making groups in any situation. The insights in 'Managing Group Risk Attitude' are derived from the authors' own applied research. Details of the research methods and findings are included in the book in support of a practical model and steps to manage risk attitude using applied emotional literacy. [ For more information visit the Gower website ]
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Stakeholder
Management, Blackwell Publishing, London. Editor: Chinyio E. Co-Authors Chapter 7: Dr. Lynda Bourne and Patrick Weaver This book breaks new ground by focusing on the stakeholder's involvement in creating successful construction projects. Most construction management books focus on improving the construction process; this one focuses on capturing leading edge practice in construction stakeholder management to provide construction practitioners with a reliable guide to best practice - Publication due 2009. Topics include: Introduction, CSR, Historical Overview, Uptake and Best Practice, Construction Stakeholder Management, Risk and Stakeholders, Mapping Stakeholders, Managing Stakeholders, Negotiating with Stakeholders, Communications, Managing Conflict, Case studies, The Future, Conclusions:
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Procurement
Systems – A
Cross Industry Project Management Perspective,
Taylor & Francis, London. Editors: Walker, D. H. T. and Rowlinson, S. Co-Author Chapter 3: Dr. Lynda Bourne This book is primarily focussed upon how project leaders can make and influence procurement decisions so as to realise a project that truly delivers value to its stakeholders. Particular attention is paid to procuring project value. Organisations tend not to want to merely source products, equipment, people or systems rather they have a complex (often implicit) need for a bundle of resources that help them generate and deliver something that will be valued by those receiving the project product/service.
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The Organizational Zoo.
Written
by Arthur Shelley, Illustrated by John Szabo. Organisations are like zoos, they are unnatural environments where animals not normally closely associated are pushed together into small “cages” and forced to interact against their will. This unnatural environment causes stress and difficult situations, which can generate a negative and political culture. The Organizational Zoo is an educational guide to understanding these workplace relationships and how to improve them. The book entertainingly profiles common behavior types found in organizations through animal metaphors and shows how the mix of animals in the hierarchy determines the organizational culture. Readers immediately relate to the simple profiles and learn how to include them in practical exercises for building productive teams. [ Download Organizational Zoo Preview ] For more on the 'zoo', visit: http://www.organizationalzoo.com |
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Heart of Influence.
Author, Jürgen Oschadleus, Published, Act Knowledge
Pty Ltd. Life is about people, communication and relationship. It's about influencing and being influenced. This book shows us how we can live a life of influence, centred on the cornerstones of persuasion identified by Aristotle over 2300 years ago:
To preview and buy 'Heart of Influence' visit: http://www.actknow.com/products.html |
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Faster Construction Projects with
CPM Scheduling. Author,
Murray B.Woolf, Published, McGraw-Hill. Faster Construction Projects with CPM Scheduling contains a full explanation of the new and innovative Scheduling Practice Paradigm, Momentum Management (momentology) and translates it into tangible steps you can use to create powerful project schedules designed to boost productivity on any job. Completely compatible with the Collaborative Model, the new Scheduling Practice Paradigm provides, commitment planning, execution scheduling, and comprehensive performance control through dilemma forecasting. Written by a 30 year scheduling veteran, this book is packed with hundreds of 'tricks of the trade'. Read the ENR review [ open the review ]. To preview and buy visit: http://www.ics-global.com |
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Breaking through the Project FOG.
Author,
James Norrie, Published, Jossey-Bass. The 'Project Fog' is the inability of organisations to select the right projects to do within their capacity to deliver. Organisations wast $billions on projects that never finish or drag on for years due to resource limitations and more $billions on projects that don't contribute to the organisations strategic objectives. Doing projects 'right' is a recipe for failure if the projects don't or can't contribute to achieving the organisations objectives! This book focuses on the emerging discipline of Project Portfolio Management, providing a practical and useful framework for establishing a balanced project selection process (using the Project Balanced Scorecard) aligned to the organisations strategic objectives. Then prioritising the most important projects within the organisations capacity to do the work. Applying the practical framework laid out in this book will help organisations shift the balance to 'doing the right projects'. To preview and buy visit: http://www.projectgurus.org/project-fog.html |
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The Lazy Project
Manager: How
to be twice as productive and still leave the office early.
Author, Peter Taylor, Published, Infinite Ideas Ltd,
Oxford. This is not a book about managing projects…. it’s a book about managing yourself whilst you manage projects. The Lazy Project Manager is not intended to replace project management training manuals, PMP courses, standards and other earnest but boring tomes. It’s the book you read when you are skilled at successfully running projects or programs and need to get a life outside of work as well. Building on the ideas of Walter Chrysler, The Jungle Book (movie), Monty Python (and brontosauruses) and others productive laziness is about achieving the success that matters with the minimum necessary effort. More bang for your buck! Now all you have to do is find time in your busy schedule to read it. To preview and buy visit: http://www.thelazyprojectmanager.com |
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Earned Schedule: Author,
Walter H. Lipke, Published, Lulu Enterprises, Inc. This book is intended for those who use Earned Value Management (EVM), including project managers, engineers and performance analysts. Earned Schedule (ES) is a significant enhancement to EVM, extending its cost-based features to the management and control of schedule performance. By using ES and EVM together, project management of cost and schedule can now be treated in a truly integrated sense. The book builds from the fundamentals of EVM to derive the concept of ES. The performance measurement baseline and earned value from EVM are utilized to extract time-based performance measures, indicators, and predictors. From this foundation, complexity is incrementally added with descriptions and examples for performance analysis, prediction and project control. Specific features of ES useful to project management are included and illustrated for the following: forecasting of completion date, analysis of critical path, drill-down identification of process constraints, impediments, and areas of concern for rework. To preview and buy visit: http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/earned-schedule/6114737 |
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| Training Manuals - Scheduling Software written by Paul E. Harris. |
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Project Planning &
Control
Using Primavera® P6, Eastwood Harris
Pty Ltd, Melbourne. Author: Paul E Harris. These books are a user guide and training manual written for Project Management Professionals who wish to learn how to schedule projects in an established Primavera Environment. The books are packed with screen shots, constructive tips from an experienced project scheduler, and contain workshops with solutions at the end of each chapter for the reader to practice the skills learned. This publication ideal for people who would like to quickly gain an understanding of how the software operates up to an intermediate level. It covers Primavera Versions from 3.5 onwards and it explains some of the differences from SureTrak, P3, Microsoft Project and Asta Powerproject to assist people converting form other products. The book is designed to teach planners and schedulers in any industry how to setup and use the software in a project environment. It explains in plain English and in a logical sequence, the steps required to create and maintain an unresourced and resourced schedule. It tackles some of the more complex aspects of the software that the user manual does not address. It highlights the sources of information and the methods that should be employed to produce a realistic and useful project schedule. |
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Project Planning &
Control
Using Primavera® Contractor Version 6.1,
Eastwood Harris
Pty Ltd, Melbourne. Author: Paul E Harris. This book was written for Project Management Professionals who understand how projects are managed and wish to learn how to plan and control projects with or without resources using Primavera Contractor. The book is packed with screen shots and constructive tips. The books are available in paperback and spiral bound (which lay flat on the desk and are suitable for use as training course handouts). The book is aimed at: - Project management companies in industries such as building, construction, oil & gas, who wish to run their own software training courses. - People who wish learn the software but are unable to attend a training course but find the software reference manual hard going. |
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Planning & Scheduling
Using Primavera SureTrak Project Manager®,
Eastwood Harris Pty Ltd, Melbourne. Author: Paul E Harris. This book presents workable solutions to real day to day planning and scheduling problems and contains practical advice on how to set up SureTrak version 3.0 and import data.Completely rewritten 2006; this book includes more student workshops, many new pages of text and covers more SureTrak functions. It is designed to teach planners and schedulers how to use SureTrak in a project environment and explains in detail how to effectively plan and control projects using the software. The book explains in plain English, and in a logical sequence, the steps required to create and maintain a schedule highlighting the sources of information and methods that should be employed to produce a realistic and useful project schedule drawing on the author's practical experience using SureTrak in a wide variety of industries including building, construction, oil & gas, software development, government and defence. |
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Planning and Control Using
Microsoft® Project and PMBOK® Guide Third Edition,
Eastwood Harris Pty Ltd, Melbourne. Author: Paul E Harris. This book is aimed at Project Management Professionals who understand the PMBOK® Guide Third Edition processes and wish to learn how to use Microsoft Office Project to plan and control their projects in a PMBOK® environment. It is a user guide and training manual written for PMPs who wish to learn how to schedule projects in a single project environment with or without Resources with Microsoft Project. The book is packed with screen shots, constructive tips and is suitable as a training course handout, for learning the software or as a reference book. The book contains workshops with solutions at the end of each chapter for the reader to practice the skills taught in the chapter. The book is based on the Microsoft Project 2007 but may be used with Microsoft Project 2000, 2002 or 2003 (the differences are noted in the book). |
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Planning & Scheduling
Using Microsoft® Office Project 2007, Eastwood Harris Pty Ltd, Melbourne. Author: Paul E Harris. This book The book was written so it may be used as: - A training manual for a two-day training course, or - A self-teach book, or - A reference manual. The screen shots for the book are mainly taken from Microsoft Office Project Standard 2007 but the book may be used to learn Microsoft Office Project Professional 2007. The book has been written to be used as the basis for a two-day training course and includes exercises for the students to complete at the end of each chapter. Unlike many training course publications, the course book may then be used by the students as a reference book. This publication is ideal for people who would like to quickly gain an understanding of how the software operates and explains how the software differs from Primavera P3 and SureTrak, thus making it ideal for people who wish to convert from these products.. |
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99 Tricks and Traps for
Microsoft® Office Project: Including Microsoft® Project
2000 to 2007, Eastwood Harris Pty Ltd, Melbourne. Author: Paul E Harris. The casual users “Survival Guide”! Written for people who understand the basics and want a brief text to demonstrate some of the less intuitive but essential functions of Microsoft Project. It is packed with screen shots, constructive tips and is written in plain English; a pocket sized book that may be read without a computer on the bus, train or plane. The book quickly gets down to the issues that many people grapple with when trying to use some of the more advanced features of Microsoft Project and enlightens readers on the traps that await the unwary and how to avoid them. It also explains some of the tricks that may be used to become more productive with the software and generate better schedules. The book is based on the Microsoft® Project 2007 but may be used with Microsoft® Project 2000, 2002 or 2003 as the book points out the differences where appropriate. |
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