Alejandro Romero-Torres - Böcker

This insightful book supports project management learning and competency through case studies drawn from a variety of industries and countries, utilising both academic theory and real-world examples. It addresses a growing need for relevant, timely, and diverse teaching and professional development resources. With global, multidisciplinary contributions from project management researchers, educators, and practitioners, this book provides unique insights into the factors that can impact project management challenges, strategies, and success.Key Features:16 cases from different industries and regions discussed, offering a broad perspective on project management practicesPedagogical notes for each case, including teaching plans, reflective questions, and suggested activities for instructorsBalanced exploration of the technical, interpersonal, and strategic dimensions of project management competencies.Divided into three main sections, each aligned with the PMI Talent Triangle® framework, focusing on Ways of Working, Power Skills, and Business Acumen.Providing readers with a rich and diverse learning experience, Case Studies on Project Management in Practice is an essential tool for students, academics and professionals of project management, as well as those in the fields of organisational behaviour and innovation, and strategic management.

Organizations simply can no longer execute projects the same way they have in the past. Their managers must rethink methods and change in response to an evolving context that is confronting every organization. An efficient way to realize this change is to evaluate project management and organizational project management maturity. ProjectManagement Maturity: Elevating Organizational Performance explains how such an evaluation not only provides an independent benchmark of project management performance but also recommends targeted actions for change and improvement.The book offers a framework to assess project management maturity at both the project and organizational levels. This framework was developed by academics and professionals tasked with evaluating project management maturity to improve organizational performance. To explain the steps required for a successful maturity evaluation, the booktakes an action research approach to describe in detail the evaluation process. It further illustrates the process with a real-world case study of a maturity evaluation in a public sector organization. Presenting key findings and recommendations that follow from an evaluation, the book explains the four categories of results and describes general avenues for improvement based on the authors’ field experience. To help managers with their own evaluations, the book discusses how project management professionals have experienced the evaluation process and how they have transformed their organizations. It also presents how evaluators have experienced the process and how they have collaborated with project and organizational managers.