Project Control Methods and Best Practices: Achieving Project Success
- 3h 27m
- Yakubu Olawale
- Business Expert Press
- 2023
If you want to know how to reduce financial wastage and cost overrun on projects and the applied best practices to enable project success, then this book is for you.
This book reveals the many challenges of project control in practice and then provides practical good practices to overcome them. This is done by presenting a robust project control framework that includes several good practices to mitigate project control inhibitors and enhance the entire project control process. The core project control techniques and methods in practice and how to design an enabling environment for effective project control are also explained.
The aim of this book is to expose the readers to several good practices which they can then apply confidently to enhance the success of their projects.
About the Author
Dr. Yakubu Olawale is an Associate Director at KPMG UK where he consults and advises clients, boards, government, and leaders of organizations in relation to their capital projects, programs, and infrastructure investments. He is also a board member at Pioneer Group and possesses more than 20 years of experience across many sectors. He has held senior positions at FTSE 100 and 250 companies in the UK and was also a lecturer at Aston university. He is multi-qualified as a Project Manager, Chartered Accountant, Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, Chartered Construction Manager, and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. He holds a bachelor’s degree and further completed an MSc at the University of Leeds, a PhD at the University of the West of England, Bristol, and an MBA at the University of Warwick. His research works have also been published in leading academic journals including International Journal of Project Management and Journal of Management in Engineering.
In this Book
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Description
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Testimonials
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Abbreviations and Acronyms
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Introduction
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Fundamental Concepts of Project Control
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Project Control in Practice and Prevention of Challenges to Effective Project Control
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Using the Project Control Inhibitors Management (PCIM) Methodology to Improve Project Control in Practice
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Good Practices to Mitigate the Foremost Project Cost and Time Control Inhibitors
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Good Practices for the Cyclic Project Control Steps—Planning, Monitoring, Reporting, and Analyzing
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Classical Project Time Control Techniques
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Classical Project Cost Control Techniques
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Project Scope Management
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Risk Management
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Overview of Supplier Performance Management, Business Case, and Benefits Management Processes
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The Ingredients of an Effective Project Control Environment
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References
