Building a Project-driven Enterprise: How to Slash Waste and Boost Profits through Lean Project Management

摘要

Ronald Mascitelli is a project management professional and a certified management consultant and is the founder and president of Technology Perspectives. His expertise in this field has been used by a number of leading firms such as Boeing, Hughes Network Systems, and Raytheon, and the Department of Defense, NASA, and the Department of Energy, in the USA. Prior to this he had worked in Hughes Electronics as senior scientist and director of research and development. He adopts a value-based approach and, using real-world examples, templates, and illustrations, describes breakthrough methods for eliminating waste from projects. The book comprises nine chapters grouped into four parts. Part I, comprising five chapters, deals with principles that drive project strategy. Part II entitled "The methods for lean project management" is a long chapter (166 pages) and comprises 12 methods for achieving "speed and efficiency". Part III is a single chapter and deals with creating a lean product development process. The final part is about building a project-driven enterprise and is covered in two chapters, one dealing with "Mandates for a project-driven enterprise" and the other a brief description of the 11-step process for lashing waste.