Project Management 6th Ed.

A Guide to the Theory and Practice of Project Methodology and Agile Methods

Bo Tonnquist

Publisher: Sanoma Utbildning, 2024, 525 pages

ISBN: 978-91-523-6629-5

Keywords: Program Management, Project Management

Last modified: April 26, 2025, 1:28 a.m.

Synopsis

Project Management takes a holistic approach to the dynamic field of project management. Whether you are a seasoned professional or a student, this book provides essential insights for governing and managing projects across diverse industries and organizational contexts.

Key features:

  • Clear and Practical: The book presents project methodologies and management principles in a straightforward manner, making it suitable for use as course literature at colleges, universities and business schools.
  • Strategic Portfolio Management: Learn how to select and prioritize project ideas at the strategic level, ensuring impactful outcomes.
  • Adaptive Approaches: Traditional methods meet agile practices. Discover when to apply each approach for optimal project success.
  • Updated Content: Our latest edition incorporates cutting-edge research and real-world insights, covering project operations, planning methods and portfolio management.
  • Pedagogical Excellence: Named Best Course Literature in Business Administration, this book's practicality and quality have stood the test of time.

Table of Contents

  1. Project Management — a work form
    1. Governance
      • The purpose of the organization
      • General objectives and strategies
      • Doing the right thing — doing things right
      • The project organization
      • The project — a temporary effort
      • Lean in projects
    2. The project methodology
      • The course of a project
      • The project management model
      • Organization and roles
    3. Agile methods
      • Agile, a supplement
      • What are agile methods?
      • Tailoring
      • The agile manifesto
      • Agile leadership
      • Agile project management
      • Is the project manager necessary?
      • Scaling up with multiple teams
  2. Analyzing
    1. Idea and initiation
      • Defining a project
      • Selection and prioritization
      • Background, purpose and goals
      • The customer' demands
      • Our offer
      • Contracts
    2. Pre-study
      • Working with a pre-study
      • What should the project do and how?
      • The scope of the project
      • Prioritization
      • Situational analysis
      • Business impact value
      • Requirements specification
      • Agile requirements management
      • Requirements on the project owner
      • High-level planning
      • Milestone plan
    3. Stakeholders and communication
      • Stakeholders
      • Categorization of stakeholders
      • Communication strategy
      • Learning
      • Presentation technology
      • Get the stakeholders' support
      • Communication plan
      • Progress reporting
      • Meetings
      • A changing workplace
      • Visual leadership
  3. Planning
    1. Time and resource planning
      • Planning management
      • The project management plan
      • Planning in a changing world
      • The planning chain
      • Creating an activity plan
      • Assessment of resources and time
      • The critical path
      • Creating the schedule
      • Resource histogram
      • Adjusting the schedule
      • Optimizing the plan
      • Planning agile projects
      • Big room planning
    2. Staffing and resource acquisition
      • Staffing
      • Procurement
      • Negotiation techniques
    3. Calculation and budgeting
      • Project economy
      • Calculating costs
      • Creating a budget
      • Periodized and accrual-basis accounting
      • Handling uncertainties
      • Pre-estimates and available funds
    4. Risks and quality
      • Distinguish risks from uncertainties
      • Risk management in projects
      • Change management
      • Quality governance
      • Quality in project work
      • Quality audit
      • Project review
  4. Execution
    1. Build team spirit
      • The composition of the group
      • Self-organizing teams or groups
      • Distributed projects
      • Norms and rules
      • Values and attitudes
      • Kick-off
      • Expectations and demands
    2. Management in projects
      • Self-awareness
      • Feedback
      • Self-leadership
      • Being a manager
      • Situational management
      • Delegation
      • Motivation
      • Conflicts
    3. Project on track
      • Initiating work
      • Reviewing the plan
      • Continuous follow-up
      • Different methods for status reports
      • Performing agile projects
      • Following up on costs
      • Earned value management
      • Cash flow
      • Change management
    4. Implementation and hand-over
      • Implementation
      • Planning implementation
      • Hand-over
      • Administration
  5. Closure and impact realization
    1. Closure and lessons learned
      • Closure — the work is done
      • Evaluating a project
      • Final report
      • Managing closure
      • Discontinuing a project
    2. Benefits realization
      • Following up results
      • Evaluating the impact goal
      • Impact measurement
      • New projects — an impact!
    3. A learning organization
      • Striving to improve
      • Collective memory
      • Knowledge management
      • Change management
      • Change projects
      • Mobilization
      • Securing the results
  6. Project operations
    1. Project maturity and PMO
      • Project operations
      • Project maturity in different industries
      • Project management office (PMO)
      • Establishing a PMO
    2. Portfolio and programme management
      • Project-based or flow-based development
      • Portfolio governance
      • One portfolio or several?
      • The portfolio mix
      • The selection process
      • Resource supply and allocation
      • Take your portfolio's PULSE
      • Programme governance
      • Programme boards
      • Programmes vs. large projects
    3. Models and tools
      • Project management models
      • Examples of project management models
      • Project tools
      • Trends
      • Implementing project tools
    4. Standards and certifications
      • Standards
      • Certifications
      • PMI certifications
      • IPMA certifications
      • PMI vs. IPMA
      • Certified Scrum Master
  • Appendix A: Project management model
  • Appendix B: Assignment model