Managing Projects in Organizations: How to Make the Best Use of Time, Techniques, and People

By J. Davidson Frame

Book Overview

Sound advice for product, engineering, and service-based organizations Unlike other project management books that focus on engineering and manufacturing settings, this resource encompasses product, engineering, and service-based organizations. It also covers important new developments in software, outsourcing, quality, and related issues. Much more than a mere checklist of techniques, Managing Projects in Organizations provides you with a sound, overall methodology for dealing with information-age projects. You get advice on overcoming problems at the organizational, team and individual levels, managing human resources, selecting the best team structure, identifying customer needs, defining project requirements, and managing the inevitable politics every project presents, plus much, much more!

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1555420311
• ISBN13: 9781555420314
• Release Date: April 1987
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Length: 247 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 0.2" x 0.2"

Customer Reviews

Good Book

This is a good book for Mid career PMs. Also, a good reference for MS Programs

Useful for financial systems projects

This book is very helpful to knowledge workers. It is now translated into Chinese and doing well in China -- the first printing sold out quickly. It is friendly written and interesting. It concentrates on real issues on projects. These are not techniques, but people issues. Frame has good technique book called New Project Management. Managing Projects in Organizations has many examples that are realistic and apply in all industries and cultures. I find it especially useful for practioners in the financial and information technology sectors.

Highly readable and on point

This book is a refreshing look at what is most important in achieving project success: people functioning in organizations. While it reviews key tools and techniques in a user-friendly fashion, its chief goal is to raise readers' awareness of the central role of people and organizations in delivering successful projects. What's more, it is an easy read, filled with practical examples of real world scenarios. It is particularly useful for knowledge workers in businesses like IT, finance, telecoms, R & D and training because it does not get bogged down in painfully detailed treatment of techniques that are marginally useful on real-world projects.