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

Chapter 1: Introduction

Table 1.1: Proposed Organizational Responsibilities

Table 1.2: Project Office Types

Table 1.3: R&D Expenditures

Table 1.4: Consequences of high work/life conflict (After: [10])

Chapter 2: The multiproject challenge

Table 2.1: Results of Weinberg-Schulman Experiment

Table 2.2: Recurring Themes from Failure Investigations and Studies at NASA

Table 2.3: Contribution of "Low Visibility" Quality Activities in the Software Industry

Table 2.4: Impact of Stress on Performance

Table 2.5: Common Barriers to Thinking

Table 2.6: Effects of Fatigue on Performance

Chapter 3: The project office

Table 3.1: Responsibility Matrix

Chapter 4: Processes

Table 4.1: Process Architecture

Table 4.2: Project-Management Model

Table 4.3: Different Types of Estimates

Table 4.4: Risk as a Function of Technology Maturity

Table 4.5: Software Risk Taxonomy (After: [3])

Table 4.6: Process Description Metadata

Table 4.7: Work Product Description Metadata

Chapter 5: Tools

Table 5.1: Portfolio Management Tool Vendors

Chapter 6: Balancing the project portfolio

Table 6.1: Estimation Methods

Table 6.2: Project Insurance Calculation

Table 6.3: Strategic Position

Table 6.4: Probability of Technical Success

Table 6.5: Probability of Commercial Success

Table 6.6: Sociopolitical and Regulatory Consequences

Table 6.7: Rewards

Table 6.8: Cost

Table 6.9: Nature of Work

Table 6.10: Forecasting Resource Needs

Table 6-11: Contingency Table

Table 6.12: Propagation Matrix

Table 6.13: Propagation of Effort

Table 6.14: Judgment Matrix

Table 6.15: Verbal Scale

Table 6.16: Logarithmic Least Squares

Table 6.17: Analytical Hierarchy Process

Chapter 7: Quantitative management

Table 7.1: ODC Classification Dimensions

Table 7.2: Typical Progress Metrics

Table 7.3: Typical Performance Metrics

Table 7.4: Typical People Metrics

Table 7.5: Typical Product Metrics

Table 7.6: Typical Product Quality Metrics

Table 7.7: Typical Customer Satisfaction Metrics

Chapter 8: Deploying the project office

Table 8.1: PO Maturity Model

Table 8.2: What Information Needs To Be Provided to Whom