Includes index.

Contents: An Encyclopaedia for the profession of project management -- Projects: Implementation strategy through programmes of projects -- Managing programmes of projects -- Projects and project management -- Project success and strategy -- Processes and procedures -- Information systems for programme management -- The Programme and project support office -- Project health checks -- Context: Political, economic, social and technical influences - PEST -- Managing the legal context -- Managing the environment -- Projects for shareholder value -- Functions: Managing scope - functionality and value -- Managing scope - configuration and work methods -- Managing quality -- Managing organization - structure and responsibilities -- Managing cost -- Managing the schedule -- Managing resources -- Managing risk -- Managing health and safety -- Process: Managing the project life cycle -- Managing the project start -- Proposal, initiation and feasibility -- Managing implementation and progress -- Commercial: Project appraisal -- Two-phase parametric discounting -- Managing finance -- Contractual: Roles and responsibilities in project procurement -- Partneering, benchmarking and alliances -- Contract law -- Contracts and payment structures -- Standard forms of contract -- Procurement -- Bidding -- Managing variations, claims and disputes -- People: Managing human resources in the project-based organization -- Project managing competences in the project-oriented organization -- Managing teams: the reality of life -- Managing and leading -- Managing stakeholders -- Managing conflict, persuasion and negotiation -- Managing culture -- Managing ethics.