The Superior Project Manager : Global Competency Standards and Best Practices

Title: The Superior Project Manager : Global Competency Standards and Best Practices
Author: Frank Toney
ISBN: 0824706390 / 9780824706395
Format: Hard Cover
Pages: 328
Publisher: Marcel Dekker
Year: 2002
Availability: In Stock

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This book describes global best practices, competencies, and standards for superior project managers based on research conducted by the Top 500 Project Management Forum, emphasizing the selection process, performance evaluation, and personnel development to provide the key elements for adjusting and adapting to flexible conditions, and highlighting enhancements in professional image, job performance, and personal earnings.

Focusing on the individual responsible for as much as 75% of team goals, The Superior Project Manager reveals proven methods of fast tracking projects without increasing costs or reducing scope....discusses ways to predict the effectiveness of project leaders when there is insufficient experience to evaluate future performance...considers skills that translate into higher income, improved career mobility, and greater peer recognition and respect....defines project-specific methodologies, templates, and procedures that reassure customers....established a body of competencies and best practices that can be passed on through training and mentoring...and more.

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Series Introduction
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction

Chapter 1 : Global Competency Standards: An Overview
Chapter 2 : The Project Manager: Global Competency Standards
Chapter 3 : Standards for Project Manager Character, Background, and Traits
Chapter 4 : Project Manager Professionalism: Standards and Best Practices
Chapter 5 : Project-Specific Competency Standards
Chapter 6 : Background Information

Appendix
Reference
Index