| Frank Toney
©2002, hardcover, 314pp., Marcel Dekker/Center for Business Practices
The Superior Project Manager describes global best practices, competencies, and standards of superior project managers based on research conducted by the Project Management Benchmarking Forum, emphasizing the selection process, performance evaluation, and personnel development to provide the key elements for adjusting and adapting to flexible conditions, and highlighting enhancements in professional image, job performance, and personal earnings.
Focusing on the individual responsible for as much as 75% of team goals, The Superior Project Manager reveals proven methods of fast tracking projects without increasing costs or reducing scope; discusses ways to predict the effectiveness of project leaders when there is insufficient experience to evaluate future performance; considers skills that translate into higher income, improved career mobility, and greater peer recognition and respect; defines project specific methodologies, templates, and procedures that reassure customers; establishes a body of competencies and best practices that can be passed on through training and mentoring; and more.
The validated best practices and competency standards found in this book provide the means for project managers to improve their performance, increase personal earnings and upward career mobility, and enhance peer recognition as well as the image of professionalism. Companies benefit from improved ability to select project managers, assess performance, and structure individual and group development programs. |
