Students today are likely to be assigned to project teams or to be project managers almost immediately in their first job. "Managing Projects: A Team-Based Approach" was written for a wide range of stakeholders, including project managers, project team members, support personnel, functional mangers who provide resources for projects, project customers (and customer representatives), project sponsors, project subcontractors, and anyone who plays a role in the project delivery process. The need for project management is on the rise as product life cycles compress, demand for IT systems increases, and business takes on an increasingly global character. This book adds to the project management knowledge base in a way that fills an unmet need - it shows how teams can apply many of the standard project management tools, as well as several tools that are relatively new to the field. "Managing Projects: A Team-Based Approach" offers the academic rigor found in most textbooks along with the pra

Managing Projects: A Team-based Approach

Business & Money

Hyer, Nancy

Brown, Karen

Management & Leadership

Irwin Professional_Pub

Students today are likely to be assigned to project teams or to be project managers almost immediately in their first job. Managing Projects: A Team-Based Approach was written for a wide range of stakeholders, including project managers, project team members, support personnel, functional mangers who provide resources for projects, project customers (and customer representatives), project sponsors, project subcontractors, and anyone who plays a role in the project delivery process. The need for project management is on the rise as product life cycles compress, demand for IT systems increases, and business takes on an increasingly global character. This book adds to the project management knowledge base in a way that fills an unmet need―it shows how teams can apply many of the standard project management tools, as well as several tools that are relatively new to the field. Managing Projects: A Team-Based Approach offers the academic rigor found in most textbooks along with the practical attributes often found more often in trade/professional publications.

Managing Projects: A Team-Based Approach with Student CD (The Mcgraw-hill/Irwin Series Operations and Decision Sciences)

McGraw–Hill Education

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Reorganizing work processes into cells has helped many organizations streamline operations, shorten lead times, increase quality, and lower costs. Cellular manufacturing is a powerful concept that is simple to understand; however, its ultimate success depends on deciding where cells fit into your organization, and then applying the know-how to design, implement and operate them.
Reorganizing the Factory presents a thoroughly researched and comprehensive "life cycle" approach to competing through cellular work organizations. It takes you from the basic cell concept and its benefits through the process of justifying, designing, implementing, operating, and improving this new type of work organization in offices and on the factory floor.
The book discusses many important technical dimensions, such as factory analysis, cell design, planning and control systems, and principles for lead time and inventory reduction. However, unique to the literature, it also covers in depth the numerous managerial issues that accompany organizing work into cells. In most implementations, performance measurement, compensation, education and training, employee involvement, and change management are critically important. These issues are often overlooked in the planning process, yet they can occupy more of the implementation time than do the technical aspects of cells.
 Includes:
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<li>Why do cells improve lead time, quality, and cost?</li>
<li>Planning for cell implementation</li>
<li>Justifying the move to cells, strategically and economically</li>
<li>Designing efficient manufacturing and office cells</li>
<li>Selecting and training cell employees</li>
<li>Compensation system for cell employees</li>
<li>Performance and cost measurement</li>
<li>Planning and control of materials and capacity</li>
<li>Managing the change to cells</li>
<li>Problems in designing, implementing, and operating cells</li>
<li>Improving and adapting existing cells</li>
<li>Structured frameworks and checklists to help analysis and decision-making</li>
<li>Numerous examples of cells in various industries</li>
</ul>

Reorganizing the Factory: Competing Through Cellular Manufacturing (Comprehensive, Life-Cycle Approach to Implementing Cells in)

Wemmerlov, Urban

Productivity Press

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