Goal Directed Project Management: Effective Techniques and Strategies

by Erling S. Andersen, Tor Haug, Kristoffer V. Grude

Goal Directed Project Management (GDPM) is a unique methodology that has been developed and refined by the authors over a period of more than 20 years.  In this time, organizations all over the world have adopted it as a standard approach.

 

The central focus of GDPM is to develop understanding, commitment and involvement while managing successful and lasting change. The authors emphasize the need for a ‘PSO’ (People, System and Organization) perspective that goes beyond the technical aspects dealt with by most project management literature. Goal Directed Project Management gives detailed and practical guidance on how to plan, organize and control these PSO projects effectively, presenting methods and tools that will increase significantly the probability of project success.

 

This fourth edition addresses the financial control of projects in a new chapter, presenting a pragmatic approach - based on GDPM methods - to this aspect of project management.

Genres: Business

272 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 1998

About the author

Erling S. Andersen was born in 1941, and has a Masters Degree in Economics from the University of Oslo (1966). He has been the Associate Professor in Economics at the University of Oslo, Dean of NKI College of Computer Science, and Professor of Information Science at the University of Bergen.

Reviews

[Tim · Rating 5 out of 5]

Outstanding if you have ever had to liaison with another company as a consultant or contractor. There were places where I out and out LAUGHED! The authors have been there and done that with some of the same horrible actors that I had to deal with.

Also relevant if you have been parachuted into a management job and everyone you manage is "eccentric."