THE PROJECT MANAGEMENT CLASSIC-REVISED AND EXPANDED Now Includes Downloadable Forms and Worksheets Projects are becoming the heart of business. This comprehensive revision of the bestselling guide to project management explains the processes, practices, and management techniques you need to implement a successful project culture within your team and enterprise. Visualizing Project Management simplifies the challenge of managing complex projects with powerful, visual models that have been adopted by more than 100 leading government and private organizations. In this new Third Edition, the authors-leading thinkers and practitioners in the field-keep you on the cutting edge with a sophisticated approach that integrates project management, systems engineering, and process improvement. This advanced content can help take your career and your organization well beyond the fundamentals. New, downloadable forms, templates, and worksheets make it easy to implement powerful project techniques and tools. Includes references to the Project Management Institute Body of Knowledge and the INCOSE Handbook to help you pass: The Project Management Professional Certification Exam The INCOSE Systems Engineer Certification Exam (CSEP) "I recommend this book to all those who aspire to project management [and] those who must supervise it." —Norman R. Augustine, former chairman and CEO Lockheed Martin Corporation "The importance of this excellent book, able to encompass these two key disciplines [systems engineering and project management], cannot be overemphasized." —Heinz Stoewer, President, INCOSE

Table of Contents:
Introduction Using Visual Models to Master Complex Systems xxi Part One Using Models and Frameworks to Master Complex Systems 1 Why Are Project Requirements a Critical Issue? 3 Maintaining consistency of the business case, the project scope, and customer needs 2 Visualizing the Project Environment 8 Using systems thinking to understand and manage the bigger picture 3 Modeling the Five Essentials 19 Visualizing the critical relationships in managing projects Part Two The Essentials of Project Management 4 Organizational Commitment 37 Ensuring success with management support, quality environment, and needed resources 5 Project Communication 48 Communicating clearly, completely, and concisely 6 Teamwork 69 Maximizing team energy and output 7 The Project Cycle 84 Understanding the steps and gates in every project life cycle 8 The Ten Management Elements 129 Comprehending the relationships among the techniques to be applied throughout the cycle Part Three The Ten Management Elements in Detail 9 Project Requirements 137 Ensuring satisfied users by determining and delivering what’s wanted 10 Organization Options 167 Selecting and adapting the structure for the project 11 The Project Team 181 Getting the right people 12 Project Planning 196 Determining the best way to get there 13 Opportunities and Their Risks 223 Seeking and seizing opportunities and managing their risks 14 Project Control 254 Making sure the right things happen and the wrong things don’t 15 Project Visibility 278 Providing project transparency for everyone involved 16 Project Status 292 Discovering the problems 17 Corrective Action 312 Fixing the problems 18 Project Leadership 319 Motivating and inspiring the team Part Four Implementing the Five Essentials 19 Principles and Tactics for Mastering Complexity 341 Implementing the technical development process 20 Integration, Verification, and Validation 361 Delivering the right thing, done right 21 Improving Project Performance 381 Moving beyond success Appendixes A Web Site for Forms and Templates 401 B The Professional and Standards Environment 403 C The Role of Unified Modeling Language™ in Systems Engineering 409 D A Summary of the Eight Phase Estimating Process 415 E Overview of the SEI-CMMI 421 Glossary One Hundred Commonly Misunderstood Terms 427 Notes 435 Index 441