TY  - BOOK
AU  - Young, Raymond
AU  - Zerjav, Vedran
TI  - Project benefit realisation and project management: the 6q governance approach
SN  - 9781119367888
U1  - 658.404 
PY  - 2022///
CY  - New Jersey
PB  - John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
KW  - Project management
N1  - TABLE OF CONTENTS
List of Illustrations

Preface 5

I. Introduction 6

The Board, Governance and Projects 6

Key Concepts 9

II. How to Govern Projects: 6 Questions

Q1. What is the desired outcome?

War Story – Lying to the Board

How to know whether Q1 has been addressed adequately

Q2. How much change?

Q3. Sponsor

Case Study – SkyHigh

Q4. Success Measures

Case Study – TechMedia

Commentary

Q5. The right project culture

Case Study – The Agency

Q6. Monitoring

Case Study – TechMedia (contd. from p26)

III. Tools and Techniques

Q1 Strategy – Diagnostic Toolkit

Case: A ‘routine’ project failure at TechServ

Q2 Change – Tools and techniques

Stakeholder Analysis

Business Process Mapping

Results Chain or Logic Model

Influencer Analysis

Case Study – The Agency

Q4 Measurement – Tools and techniques

Q6 Monitoring – tools and techniques

IV. Further insight

When do you ask each 6Q Governance™ question?

The best guidance available

V. The Future of Project Management and Governance

Where do we go from here?

The history and the future of project management

Conclusion

Appendix 1 – TechMedia

Appendix 2 –SKYHIGH INVESTMENTS

Appendix 3 –THE AGENCY

Bibliography

About the Authors

Index
N2  - Project management success does not automatically lead to project success. Many large projects fail to live up to expectations, with between half and two-thirds of large projects either failing to deliver or delivering few strategic benefits. Traditional project management resources focus on delivering a project on time and on budget, yet they fail to supply top managers, many of whom find themselves in the role of accidental project sponsors, with guidance on how to govern their projects to succeed.

Project Benefit Realisation and Project Management: The 6Q Governance Approach bridges the strategy to performance gap by providing boards, senior managers and project sponsors with the six critical questions necessary to diagnose the health of any project. Presenting a systematic framework developed from research cases of successful and unsuccessful projects in various types of organisations, this practical guide enables those in top management to determine if their strategy or policy is on track and to assess whether a project is likely to deliver the expected benefits. The text features real-world examples illustrating how concepts can be applied to different types of projects in engineering, construction, information technology, business transformation and many others. This must-have guide is designed to help top managers and other stakeholders:

Clarify the link between business outcomes, benefits, and strategy to evaluate where effort should be directed
Assess how much behavioural change is required to effectively implement strategy and realise desired benefits
Select a project sponsor committed to influencing key stakeholders to make necessary changes and intercede to resolve issues as they arise
Establish how success will be measured before a project begins, to gauge sponsor commitment and ensure project goals are not changed to match whatever is achieved
Ask if the right culture is in place to ensure all relevant information is being reported
Determine teams’ ability to adapt and change plans in response to issues arising in the project
Monitor if the project is on track to realising the benefits and have a process in place to cancel failing projects
Project Benefit Realisation and Project Management: The 6Q Governance Approach is an indispensable volume for board members, project sponsors, project advisors and those in senior positions who find themselves in the role of accidental project sponsors
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