Preface; Acknowledgement; The Rationale Behind This Book; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Part I A Reality Check; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 How Project Management Evolved; 1.2.1 PMBoK® as a Guidance Versus PMBoK® as a Standard; 1.2.2 Navigating Through the Layers; 1.3 How Are These Methods Different?; 1.3.1 The Micro-Drill Effect; 1.3.2 Characterizing the Change; 1.4 Types of Project Environments; 1.4.1 What Is the Business Issue?; 1.4.2 Limitations of Existing Attempts; 1.4.3 Refining the Business Issue; 1.4.4 An Alternative Framework; 1.5 Types of Projects

1.5.1 Cardinal Questions1.5.2 Conventional Thinking on Types; 1.5.3 Why Is Classification Not Useable?; 1.5.4 An Alternate View; 1.6 The Distinction Between the Two Approaches; 1.6.1 Advantages of Stereotyping; 1.6.2 Disadvantages of Stereotyping; 1.7 Key Takeaways; 2 Basic Misconceptions in Projects; 2.1 Hello World!; 2.1.1 Drawing the Line Between Projects and Operations; 2.1.2 Similarities Between Projects and Operations; 2.2 Projects in Business; 2.3 Project Approvals are Complex Financial Decisions; 2.3.1 Cost
Benefit Analysis; 2.3.2 Appraise the Investment

2.3.3 Recap of Basic Financial Management Concepts2.4 A More Balanced Perspective of Project Evaluation; 2.5 Key Takeaways; 3 A Quick Honest Beginning!; 3.1 All's Well!; 3.2 Caselet 1; 3.3 Caselet 2; 3.4 Caselet 3; 3.5 Caselet 4; 3.6 Real Life Cases: As Narrated by a Project Manager-1; 3.7 Real Life Cases: As Narrated by a Project Manager-2; 3.8 Real Life Cases: As Narrated by a Project Manager-3; 3.8.1 Case 1; 3.8.2 Case 2; Part II Reviewing Projects: First Level; 4 The Systems View of Management-I; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 An Example Framework; 4.3 The Project Management Context

4.4 Project Phase4.5 Project Life Cycle; 4.6 Types of Project Life Cycles; 4.6.1 SDLC: The Linear Model; 4.6.2 The Incremental Model; 4.6.3 A Quick Simulation; 4.6.4 Rapid Application Development; 4.7 A Generic Treatment; 4.8 A Popular Issue; 4.9 Key Takeaways; 5 The Systems View of Management-II; 5.1 The Project Organization; 5.1.1 The Structural Frame; 5.1.2 The Human Resource Frame; 5.1.3 The Political Frame; 5.1.4 The Symbolic Frame; 5.2 Project Organization: Types of Structural Frames; 5.3 Functional Organization; 5.4 Projectized Organizations; 5.5 Matrix Organizations

5.6 Demystifying the Structural Frame5.7 The Biological Entrepreneurial Model; 5.7.1 Understanding the Biological Component; 5.7.2 A Quick View of the Model; 5.8 Key Takeaways; 6 Basic Mantras of Project Management; 6.1 A Serious Note to Begin with!; 6.2 Wits of Experience!; 6.3 Formal Project Management; 6.4 Project Stakeholders; 6.5 The First Mantra; 6.6 Project Scope Management; 6.7 The Second Mantra; 6.8 Project Plan and Schedule Management; 6.8.1 Two Problems to Avoid; 6.9 The Third Mantra; 6.10 Project Costing; 6.10.1 The Pseudo Management Problem; 6.11 The Fourth Mantra