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    Project Governance: The Essentials
    Project Governance: The Essentials
    Project Governance: The Essentials
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    Project Governance: The Essentials

    By Rod Beecham

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    Written from personal experience of managing many successful projects over 15 years, Project Governance: The Essentials offers real, workable solutions in bite-size pieces. For small companies and large, whatever your experience, you will discover many keys to gain the best return on your investment.

    LanguageEnglish
    Publisheritgovernance
    Release dateApr 7, 2011
    ISBN9781849281959
    Project Governance: The Essentials
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    Rod Beecham

    Rod Beecham was educated at Monash and Oxford and has delivered 22 projects across the private, public and not-for-profit sectors over the past 15 years. His projects have ranged from small-team overhauls of particular information systems over periods of weeks to large-scale strategic infrastructure projects of 12 months’ duration involving global stakeholders. He has published academic papers, reviewed for academic journals, and published more than 60 essays, interviews and reviews on a wide variety of topics in various newspapers and magazines since 1987. He is currently a freelance consultant.

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      Project Governance - Rod Beecham

      Project Governance

      The Essentials

      Project Governance

      The Essentials

      ROD BEECHAM

      Every possible effort has been made to ensure that the information contained in this book is accurate at the time of going to press, and the publisher and the author cannot accept responsibility for any errors or omissions, however caused. No responsibility for loss or damage occasioned to any person acting, or refraining from action, as a result of the material in this publication can be accepted by the publisher or the author.

      Apart from any fair dealing for the purposes of research or private study, or criticism or review, as permitted under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, this publication may only be reproduced, stored or transmitted, in any form, or by any means, with the prior permission in writing of the publisher or, in the case of reprographic reproduction, in accordance with the terms of licences issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency. Enquiries concerning reproduction outside those terms should be sent to the publisher at the following address:

      IT Governance Publishing

      IT Governance Limited

      Unit 3, Clive Court

      Bartholomew’s Walk

      Cambridgeshire Business Park

      Ely

      Cambridgeshire

      CB7 4EH

      United Kingdom

      www.itgovernance.co.uk

      © Rod Beecham 2011

      The author has asserted the rights of the author under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as the author of this work.

      First published in the United Kingdom in 2011

      by IT Governance Publishing.

      ISBN 978-1-84928-195-9

      FOREWORD

      The term ‘project’ seems to be one whose hour has come – most things seem to be projects these days. There is perhaps an element of fashion in the development of the word – the buzzword which gets the heads of the cognoscenti nodding – but it is also true that there are just more projects about now. The cycle of innovation and change is continually picking up speed. A system that might have run pretty much consistently for a decade or so before will now undergo significant changes on a yearly basis, as new technology offers better solutions. Traditionally, project management has always been an exciting area to work in because it involves guessing at the future and, as history never tires of showing us, we are not very good at it. Even if the mechanics of a project can be broken down into small, familiar steps, there will always be something out there which has not been anticipated and which has the capacity to

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