Project Management for Environmental, Health and Safety Professionals

CSP Pierce, CSP, CIH, F. David

doi:10.5771/9781461624622

Summary

Learn the project management skills you need to survive as an EH&S professional. This book presents a simple-to-use 18-step approach for effective project management. Each of the three phases are explained in detail, using case studies to illustrate the best tools to use and pitfalls to avoid. You'll learn how to identify project objectives and constraints, establish elements and resource needs, create project schedules, find ways to make up for lost time, monitor and measure progress, document the project, and more.

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 1998
ISBN-Print: 978-0-86587-598-2
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4616-2462-2
Publisher: Government Institutes, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 265
Product type: Book Titles

1. Table of Contents No access
2. Dedication Page No access
3. Preface No access
1. Assumptions No access
2. Project Management as a Learned Skill No access
3. Why are Project Management Skills so Important? No access
4. Our Traditional Approach No access
5. Specialized Skills No access
6. Failure Points and Prevention No access
7. The Eight Roots of Project Implementation Failure No access
8. Differences in Vision and Perception No access
9. Objectives No access
1. What is a Project? No access
2. Aspects of a Project No access
3. Team Concepts of Project Management No access
4. Estimating Project Duration No access
5. Approvals No access
6. The Importance of Planning and Scheduling No access
7. Resources and Commitment No access
8. Communication in Project Management No access
9. Technical versus People Skills No access
10. Factors that Influence Success or Failure No access
11. Overview of Phases and Steps No access
12. Project Management-Phases and Stages No access
13. Summary No access
1. Step 1: Identify Project Concept, Major Goals and Risks No access
2. Step 2: Identify Project Objectives and Constraints No access
3. Step 3: Obtain Preliminary Approval for Project No access
4. Step 4: Identify the Major Project Elements and Create a Project Map No access
5. Step 5: Identify Project Resource Needs No access
6. Step 6: Obtain Go-Ahead Approval for Project No access
7. "Things that Go Bump in the Night"- The Four Biggest Problems in Project Management No access
8. Summary No access
1. Step 1: Assign Project Jobs and Tasks No access
2. Step 2: Establish a Critical Sequence of Tasks and Dependent Tasks No access
3. Step 3: Develop and Chart Project Schedule No access
4. Step 4: Schedule Resource Deployment No access
5. Step 5: Identify Potential Problems and Make Prevention Plans No access
6. Step 6: Identify Potential Opportunities for Making Up Ground No access
7. Summary No access
1. Step 1: Begin Project Implementation No access
2. Step 2: Monitor and Measure Progress of Project No access
3. Step 3: Evaluate and Modify the Project Plan as Necessary No access
4. Step 4: Finish the Project No access
5. Step 5: Determine the Lessons Learned No access
6. Step 6: Project Close-Out and Documentation No access
7. Summary No access
1. Project Management Tool Options No access
2. Computerized Project Management Tools No access
3. Manual or Paper-Based Project Management Tools No access
4. A Worksheet Approach to Project Management No access
5. Summary No access
1. Searching for Answers No access
2. The Standardization Effort No access
3. Organizational Roadblocks No access
4. Summary No access
1. The Overhead Efficiency Evaluation Project No access
2. Summary No access
1. A Process for Successful Project Management No access
2. Key Skills Inventory No access
3. Applying a Successful Process No access
4. Summary No access
Index No access Pages 259 - 265