Three new books explore quantitative measures of success, agile project management principles and the concept of transformational outsourcing.
Quantitative Methods in Project Management
This new book provides the basis for calculating project value and setting up metrics that will be the measures of success. It also helps project managers understand the numerical values of risks to be addressed. Written for project practitioners who are not steeped in theory, this book is filled with easily applied practical methods. It includes examples set it a project manager's context so that you can put the concepts into action immediately.
The author takes you through the most useful day-to-day quantitative methods, integrates those methods into a loosely couple workflow, and show the interrelationships that cannot be obtained by separate readings.Includes a glossary of terms, statistical and quantitative risk analysis charts, models and examples for budgeting, cost analysis and a new framework called the "project balance sheet" as free downloads.
About the Author: John C. Good Pasture, PMP, is founder of Square Peg Consulting, a project management consulting firm. He has an MS in Electrical Engineering and more than 35 years of experience in complex multimillion-dollar programs and projects in defense, intelligence, aerospace and commercial industry.