The persistent failure rates of complex industrial and large capital investment projects are a clear indication that traditional project management is not sufficient to deliver these types of project consistently and successfully. A new thought process needs to emerge.
Investment-Centric Project Management is a comprehensive methodology and management system for the controlled execution of complex industrial and capital projects that unifies an organization's project resources into a single framework designed to prevent projects from failing and blowing budgets or schedules. This one-of-a-kind guide shows how to develop projects into profitably performing assets that yield valuable sustained ROI to its shareholders over its economic life, and how to execute projects to achieve speed to market, cost and risk containment, security of supply, and certainty of quality.
Written by a leading expert in the aerospace, defense, manufacturing and oil and gas industries, this advanced reference offers project owners and developers alike a road map to predictable and repeatable project success, and a guarantee of future investment returns from their assets.
Part 1: Why
Chapter 1 - Introduction: Between Project Success and Failure
Chapter 2 - The Point of a Project
Chapter 3 - Leadership
Chapter 4 - Theory
Chapter 5 - Accountability
Chapter 6 - Getting to No
Part 2: Where
Chapter 7 - The Project Ecosystem
Chapter 8 - The Budget
Chapter 9 - The Framework
Chapter 10 - Measuring Success
Part 3: How
Chapter 11 - The Execution Strategy
Chapter 12 - Work Sequencing
Part 4: Who
Chapter 13 - TEAMS
Chapter 14 - Personnel
Part 5: When
Chapter 15 - 3:2:1 Manage!
Chapter 16 - 4:5:6:7:8 Fix it!
Part 6: What
Chapter 17 - Mechanics and Mechanisms
Chapter 18 - Project Closeout
Chapter 19 - Final Words
Part 7: Miscellany
Appendices
Bibliography
Lexicon