Table of Contents

Preface.
Acknowledgments.


The Authors and Contributors.


1. Introduction: The Right Combination of the Right Projects
Done Right.


Part One: How to Manage Multiple Projects Successfully
Throughout the Enterprise.


2. Organizational Project Success.


3. Factors Critical to Achieving Organizational Project
Success.


4. Some Ways to Achieve Organizational Project Success.


5. The Management of Multiple Projects: Three Success
Stories.


Part Two: How to Make Sure Each Project Is the Right
Project.


6. The Project Sponsor.


7. Selecting and Defining the Right Project.


8. Aligning Projects with Strategy.


9. Managing Benefits.


10. Project Governance and the Critical Role of the Sponsor.


11. Organizational Change Projects and the Leadership Role of
the Sponsor.


12. Successful Sponsorship: Two Case Studies.


Part Three: How to Make Sure Each Project Is Done
Right.


13. What Does It Take to Do the Project Right?


14. Stakeholders and the Complexity of the Human Dimension.


15. Doing It Differently: Variations in Project Management
Practice in Different Industries.


16. Doing It Right: Development of a State-of-the-Art
Methodology.


Notes.


Glossary.


Index.


For Further Information.

About the Author

Paul C. Dinsmore is an internationally renowned consultant,
and Fellow and Project Management Professional of the Project
Management Institute. A prolific writer, he is author and coauthor
of numerous books, including Creating the Project Office from
Jossey-Bass.
Terence J. Cooke-Davies is founder of Human Systems, a
company that creates and supports a global network of international
organizations that work together to improve corporate performance
through projects. He is a Fellow of the Association for Project
Management and the Chartered Institute of Management.