Project Reviews, Assurance and Governance

Name: Project Reviews, Assurance and Governance
Brand: Taylor & Francis
SKU: 9780566088070
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By Graham Oakes

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Project Reviews, Assurance and Governance by Graham Oakes explores the challenges of managing complex, non-routine projects involving diverse teams. The book emphasises learning from mistakes and understanding the real progress of projects through effective reviews and assurance processes. It presents practical and conceptual models based on real-world case studies to help organisations develop relevant, rigorous project governance tailored to their needs.
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This book is ideal for project managers, programme directors, PMO personnel, and anyone involved in project governance who seeks practical and conceptual tools for improving project assurance and learning from project outcomes.

Projects are hard. By definition, projects are about non-routine activities. Many of them are large and complex; they may involve many people, often from different backgrounds and increasingly with different languages and cultures. This book tells about learning from your mistakes and understanding what's really going on with your projects.

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Projects are hard. By definition, projects are about non-routine activities. Many of them are large and complex; they may involve many people, often from different backgrounds and increasingly with different languages and cultures. Amongst all of this, it is easy to get lost, to overlook important trends or to misunderstand each other. So projects fail.

Graham Oakes' Project Reviews, Assurance and Governance is about learning from your mistakes and understanding what's really going on with your projects. In order for reviews and assurance to provide you with this information and learning, you need to perform them effectively and that is the purpose of this book.

The core of the book is built around a number of models of project review processes and governance, all derived from practice and interspersed with case studies drawn from practitioners, project management literature and from practices in other industries. The result is the blend of the conceptual and the practical needed to make your project assurance process sympathetic, relevant and rigorous for your organisation and the range of projects and programmes which you undertake.

Book Hero Magic summarised reviews for this book. While it's new and still learning, it may not be perfect - your feedback is welcome! HOW HAS THIS BEEN REVIEWED?

Andrew Hatton, IS Project Manager at Oxfam GB, praises the book for highlighting the critical nature of project reviews in preventing failure, especially in large IT projects. He notes that Oakes effectively argues that project reviews should be an integral part of the project lifecycle rather than a last-minute afterthought. The book is also commended for its guidance on the role of the PMO in project governance and assurance.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780566088070

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 28 October 2008

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Gower Publishing Ltd

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Width: 174.0mm

Height: 246.0mm

Weight: 748g

Pages: 288

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About the Author

Graham Oakes helps people untangle complex technology, relationships, processes and governance. As an independent consultant, he helps organizations such as Sony Computer Entertainment, The Open University, the Council of Europe and the Port of Dover to define strategy, initiate projects and hence run those projects effectively. Prior to going independent, he was Director of Technology at Sapient Limited, where he ran the project review process for the UK Business Unit. Before that he was Head of Project Management for Psygnosis Ltd (a subsidiary of Sony), where he ran Independent Project Assurance teams working across the UK, Europe and the USA. Graham writes a regular column for EvaluationCentre.com (now part of the National Computer Centre), and occasional articles for publications such as the Financial Times, Free Software Magazine and Project magazine. He was a medallist in the British Computer Society IT Consultancy of the Year Awards for 2007.