David West is Senior Technical Director and Head of Risk Management, WSP UK. He has 29 years experience of projects in the power, petro-chemical, building, leisure, health, defence, rail, and development sectors. During his career, David's roles across the project spectrum have included: designer, design manager, site manager, construction manager, project manager, project sponsor, risk manager, business unit manager and developer. He has also been an Associate Lecturer with the Open University teaching Finance and Marketing on the MBA programme.

'I definitely rate this book - especially if you're working in the engineering and construction sectors in a project environment. I'm so pleased that project sponsorship is receiving some attention as it has in my opinion been neglected for too long - organisations just seem to assume that sponsors will know what to do! I think that the book is not only of interest to sponsors, but to project and programme managers, project accountants and risk managers. I do wonder how many project sponsors would have the time to read a book like this, so perhaps all of you diligent PM's out there can provide an executive summary to your sponsors! Despite the book not really hitting the sweet spot for my specialism (technology based business change), I'm still glad to have read it, and will certainly look to bring some of the methods into my ever growing tool kit.' Jon Hyde, Project and Programme Manager.

• Contents: Introduction; Part 1 The Nature of Project Sponsorship and Sponsors: The value of project sponsorship to the organization; Factors in the selection of the project sponsor. Part 2 Core Project Sponsor Duties and Skills: Governance, reporting and management structures for the sponsorship of projects; Health, safety and environment; Where projects come from - corporate strategy; The project business case - will the project be worth it?; Defining the project; The players: selecting and leading the team; Project finance; Project commissioning and close out. Part 3 Understanding Project Management: The project team; Project planning; Progress reporting; Value engineering; Risk management; Quality management; Commercial management; Change control; Stakeholder management; Index.

David West is Senior Technical Director and Head of Risk Management, WSP UK. He has 29 years experience of projects in the power, petro-chemical, building, leisure, health, defence, rail, and development sectors. During his career, David's roles across the project spectrum have included: designer, design manager, site manager, construction manager, project manager, project sponsor, risk manager, business unit manager and developer. He has also been an Associate Lecturer with the Open University teaching Finance and Marketing on the MBA programme.

'I definitely rate this book - especially if you're working in the engineering and construction sectors in a project environment. I'm so pleased that project sponsorship is receiving some attention as it has in my opinion been neglected for too long - organisations just seem to assume that sponsors will know what to do! I think that the book is not only of interest to sponsors, but to project and programme managers, project accountants and risk managers. I do wonder how many project sponsors would have the time to read a book like this, so perhaps all of you diligent PM's out there can provide an executive summary to your sponsors! Despite the book not really hitting the sweet spot for my specialism (technology based business change), I'm still glad to have read it, and will certainly look to bring some of the methods into my ever growing tool kit.' Jon Hyde, Project and Programme Manager.

• Contents: Introduction; Part 1 The Nature of Project Sponsorship and Sponsors: The value of project sponsorship to the organization; Factors in the selection of the project sponsor. Part 2 Core Project Sponsor Duties and Skills: Governance, reporting and management structures for the sponsorship of projects; Health, safety and environment; Where projects come from - corporate strategy; The project business case - will the project be worth it?; Defining the project; The players: selecting and leading the team; Project finance; Project commissioning and close out. Part 3 Understanding Project Management: The project team; Project planning; Progress reporting; Value engineering; Risk management; Quality management; Commercial management; Change control; Stakeholder management; Index.

David West is Senior Technical Director and Head of Risk Management, WSP UK. He has 29 years experience of projects in the power, petro-chemical, building, leisure, health, defence, rail, and development sectors. During his career, David's roles across the project spectrum have included: designer, design manager, site manager, construction manager, project manager, project sponsor, risk manager, business unit manager and developer. He has also been an Associate Lecturer with the Open University teaching Finance and Marketing on the MBA programme.

'I definitely rate this book - especially if you're working in the engineering and construction sectors in a project environment. I'm so pleased that project sponsorship is receiving some attention as it has in my opinion been neglected for too long - organisations just seem to assume that sponsors will know what to do! I think that the book is not only of interest to sponsors, but to project and programme managers, project accountants and risk managers. I do wonder how many project sponsors would have the time to read a book like this, so perhaps all of you diligent PM's out there can provide an executive summary to your sponsors! Despite the book not really hitting the sweet spot for my specialism (technology based business change), I'm still glad to have read it, and will certainly look to bring some of the methods into my ever growing tool kit.' Jon Hyde, Project and Programme Manager.

• Contents: Introduction; Part 1 The Nature of Project Sponsorship and Sponsors: The value of project sponsorship to the organization; Factors in the selection of the project sponsor. Part 2 Core Project Sponsor Duties and Skills: Governance, reporting and management structures for the sponsorship of projects; Health, safety and environment; Where projects come from - corporate strategy; The project business case - will the project be worth it?; Defining the project; The players: selecting and leading the team; Project finance; Project commissioning and close out. Part 3 Understanding Project Management: The project team; Project planning; Progress reporting; Value engineering; Risk management; Quality management; Commercial management; Change control; Stakeholder management; Index.