Running the Successful Hi-Tech Project Office (Artech House Technology Management Library)

R&D expenditures, 8

Reality perceptions, 214

Real options, 167-69

concept, 167

defined, 167

valuation (ROV), 144

Recovery, cost of, 138

Requirements dependency matrix, 49-50

defined, 49

functions, 49-50

illustrated, 50

Requirements management, 92-93

areas, 92

defined, 92

goals, 92-93

schema, 93

See also PO process

Resource needs forecasting, 146-51

contingency table, 151

project profiles, 146-48

steps, 149-50

Resource plan, 48, 49

defined, 48

illustrated, 49

preparation, 115

Resource-requirements map, 157

Resource scheduling, 118-20

allocation display, 119-20

defined, 118-19

performance knowledge, 119

See also Tools

Responsibility matrix, 76-79

Return on investment (ROI), 144

Revenue forecasting, 151-52

Reward structure, 206-8

pay-per-performance, 207

promotions/incentives, 206-7

reward result and, 208

Rework, 30-31

costs, 30-31

study results, 31

timing of changes relationship, 31

See also Project delay responses

Risk

assessment, 94

behavior, 225

dispersion measures and, 176

as function of technology maturity, 97

handling, 94

monitoring, 95

planning, 94

project schedule, 135

software taxonomy, 98

types, 95

Risk management process, 94-96

activities, 94-95

defined, 94

illustrated, 94

risk types, 95

Risk management tool, 121, 123

defined, 121

illustrated, 123

Rough estimates, 132-36