Investment-centric Project Management : Advanced Strategies for Developing and Executing Successful Capital Projects

This advanced reference offers project owners and developers alike a practical road map to predictable and repeatable project success, and a guarantee of future investment returns from their created assets. It provides a comprehensive methodology for managing the controlled execution of complex industrial and large capital projects in a manner that ensures the prevention of budget, schedule, and performance failures. Its framework enables projects to experience dramatic cost savings, and asset owners to achieve faster speed to market, cost and risk containment, security of supply, and quality certainty. Key Features, Defines a project as the creation of a profitably performing asset that will deliver consistent ROI or measurable value to shareholders over its economic life, Supersedes the familiar cost, quality, and time triangle with the constraint diamond of cost, time, revenues, performance, expenses, and profits, Introduces the concept of valunomy for decision making instead of cost effectiveness, and the unit transformation process, a technique and methodology for mastering the complexities of a project and sequencing its execution with direct answerability of individuals, Presents a comprehensive system of project performance assessment metrics beyond the usual KPIs to measure what matters across time, between players, and throughout execution phases, Develops the sequencing of project execution work into eight lifecycle phases, grouped into two stages-conceptualization and realization-and re-defines the completion milestone as the point in time when the asset has been proven to be performing profitably, WY offers numerous downloadable templates and materials to help ensure your successful deployment of large capital projects-available from the Web Added Value™ Download Resource Center at jrosspub.com