The contents of this book are set out in six chapters and four
Appendices. Of these, Chapter 3 — A Typology of Projects is by far
the largest, setting out as it does a broad range of actual projects used to reflect
and distinguish between the chosen subheadings of the chapter. For this reason,
we have included the subheadings of this chapter in the following chapter listing.
Chapters |
1. | The
Situational View on Project Management |
2. | Digging
Deeper |
3. | A
typology of Projects |
| 1) | Introductory
Questions |
| 2) | Best
Practice Approaches vs. SitPM |
| 3) | A
Research Project: The First Objective, Develop a Typology |
| 4) | Mark
1 Projects and Mark n Projects |
| 5) | Greenfield
Projects and Brownfield Projects |
| 6) | Siloed
Projects and Solid Projects |
| 7) | Blurred
Projects and Focused Projects |
| 8) | High-Impact
Projects and Low-Impact Projects |
| 9) | Customer
Projects and Internal Projects |
| 10) | Stand-Alone
Projects and Satellite Projects |
| 11) | Predictable
Projects, Exploratory Projects and Projects with Frequently Changing Requirements |
| 12) | Composed
Projects and Decomposed Projects |
| 13) | Further
Types of Projects |
| | i. | Engineers'
Projects and Gardeners' Projects |
| | ii. | Discretionary
Projects and Mandatory Projects |
| | iii. | Single
Handover Projects and Multiple Handover Projects |
| | iv. | No
Deadline Projects, Single Deadline Projects and Multiple Handover Projects |
| | v. | One-Shot
Projects vs. Multi-Shot Projects |
4. | Practices
for SitPM |
5. | Some
Basic Tools for SitPM |
6. | Leadership
and the Dynamics of Success and Failure |
Appendices |
A | Answers
to Introductory Questions |
B | Traps
in Terminology |
C | What
the Practitioners and Experts Say |
D | Twelve
Suggestions for Situational Project Managers |
|
Glossary |
References |
The book has a total of 298 pages and the Appendices include a Glossary of Terms as shown in the listing.
Introduction
