Full Description
The new edition of this best-selling text presents the tools and techniques for effectively managing every kind of development and change in health and community services, while also balancing the needs of a range of stakeholders. It offers practical, problem-solving strategies based on real-life scenarios.
A core competency for health and community service practitioners internationally, project management is a key challenge for both new and existing staff. This practitioner's guide uses project stories and examples to illustrate the core challenges that practitioners may face, including managing the project life cycle, project planning, execution and evaluation, risk management, handling change and building effective teams. Alongside new interviews with staff working across a range of sectors, this edition includes new content on career development and pathways as well as the growing integration of project methods into general management, and the impact of broader changes like digital innovation and transformation.
Written by highly experienced authors, and underpinned by the latest research, this enlightening and practical guide is an essential resource for anyone studying or working in health and community services.
Contents
List of figures, List of tables, Te,[;ates, About the authors, Acknowledgements, Glossary of terms, 1 Why project management, 2 Projects in context: The industry and the organisation, 3 Project management methods, tools and careers, 4 The initiation phase: from concept to proposal, 5 The planning phase: what will be done, and how?, 6 Planning for evaluation: assessing project performance, 7 Planning tools: work program, scheduling and budgeting, 8 The implementation phase: making it happen, 9 Project closure and what comes next
