Research Catalog

Title

Facilitating the project lifecycle : skills & tools to accelerate progress for project managers, facilitators, and six sigma project teams / Jan Means, Tammy Adams.

Author

Means, Jan

Publication

San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, [2005], ©2005.

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Details

Additional Authors

Adams, Tammy, 1959-

Series Statement

The Jossey-Bass business & management series

Uniform Title

Jossey-Bass business & management series.

Subject

• Project management
• Group facilitation
• Six sigma (Quality control standard)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 378) and index.

Contents

1. Old dogs and new tricks -- 2. Facilitation within the project lifecycle -- 3. Who's on first? -- 4. What effective facilitation is and is not -- 5. Making work sessions work -- 6. The work session tightrope -- 7. Preparing for the work session -- 8. Conducting the work session -- 9. Wrapping up the work session -- 10. Establishing the project charter -- 11. Analyzing and designing business processes -- 12. Defining business requirements -- 13. Assessing risks -- 14. Convening work-in-progress reviews -- 15. It's all about communication -- 16. Flip-charting -- 17. Brainstorming -- 18. Facilitated dialogue -- 19. Nominal group and affinity analysis -- 20. Prioritization techniques -- 21. Breakout groups -- 22. Staying on track : agendas, action items, and other focusing techniques -- 23. Creating a purpose statement -- 24. Defining objectives and targets -- 25. Scope framing -- 26. Guiding factors : assumptions, constraints, dependencies, and touch points -- 27. Discovering impacts -- 28. Risk analysis matrices -- 29. Process decomposition -- 30. Process mapping -- 31. Process detail table -- 32. Context diagramming -- 33. Requirements table -- 34. Developing a timeline.

ISBN

0787978752 (alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2005004547
• 9780787978754

OCLC

• ocm57682356
• SCSB-5204562

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries