Dependency Management - 75 Quick and Easy Tips to Eliminate Barriers to your Project’s Success

Just under 10% of every dollar invested in projects is wasted. Given that the global annual investment in capital and infrastructure projects alone is more than $4 trillion, this is a staggering amount of wasted resources. One reason for this shocking level of waste is poor project dependency management. No project or organization can succeed if it suffers from lack of coordination, wasted resources, inaccurate and inefficient schedules and poor stakeholder management.
Dependency management gives you the tools and the process to create realistic and effective schedules, optimize resource allocation, improve collaboration and coordination with others and build better stakeholder relationships. This book shows you exactly how to identify, plan and manage project interdependencies. It starts off by showing you the real meaning of a dependency in the project sense and shows you how to go from mapping dependencies to acting on them, so that you deliver successful projects. You'll learn:.
The seven types of dependency that you need to manage if your to be successful, with examples. Why understanding complex dependency relationships is so important to your success. How to make stakeholder communications your super power. How to identify and track dependencies so that you stop them becoming barriers to your project's success. Table of Contents:. Introduction. Why Dependency Management Matters.
Understanding Dependencies: Types, Relationships, and Complex Scenarios. Identifying Dependencies. Agreeing Dependencies. Dependency Planning. Validating Dependencies. Monitoring and Controlling Dependencies. Communicating Dependencies. Top Ten Dependency Management Mistakes. Conclusion. A Glossary of Dependency Management Terms. Process Visuals. References. Further Reading. About the Author. Other Books by Bryan BarrowTable of Figures:Figure 1: Project cost and schedule overrun, by project typeFigure 2: The Dependency Management ProcessFigure 3: Project Organisation Structure and GovernanceFigure 4: A Finish-to-Start RelationshipFigure 5: A Start-to-Start RelationshipFigure 6: A Finish-to-Finish RelationshipFigure 7: A Start-to-Finish RelationshipFigure 8: Internal and External DependenciesFigure 9: Example of a 'Staggered' dependencyFigure 10: Example of a 'Two-Way' dependencyFigure 11: Example of a 'Revolving' dependencyFigure 12: Example of a 'One-to-Many' dependencyFigure 13: Example of a 'Many-to-One' dependencyFigure 14: A Conceptual ModelFigure 15: A Context DiagramFigure 16: A Rich Picture for a Cloud Migration ProjectFigure 17: Most important factors for successful highly complex projectsFigure 18: Stakeholder Sector Analysis, showing external stakeholdersFigure 19: A Reviewer History TableFigure 20: A Responsibility Assignment Matrix (RAM)Figure 21: A RACI MatrixFigure 22: Third Party Consultation TrackingFigure 23: A Key Dependencies table for inclusion in a commercial agreementFigure 24: Tracking Agreement on Third-Party DependenciesFigure 25: A Dependency MapFigure 26: A Product Breakdown Structure (PBS)Figure 27: A Product Flow DiagramFigure 28: Product Estimation TemplateFigure 29: Three-Part Task EstimatesFigure 30: Adding Inbound and Outbound Milestones to project activities to simplify dependency trackingFigure 31: Project Schedule with Inbound and Outbound InterdependenciesFigure 32: Phased Dependency Review ApproachFigure 33: Aligning with External DependenciesFigure 34: Tracking Agreement on DependenciesFigure 35: A Dependency LogFigure 36: Example Schedule, Showing Critical PathFigure 37: Chaos Report results, 1994-2016Take the next step towards becoming a more successful project leader and buy this book now.