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.

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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 Barrow

Table of Figures:

Figure 1: Project cost and schedule overrun, by project type

Figure 2: The Dependency Management Process

Figure 3: Project Organisation Structure and Governance

Figure 4: A Finish-to-Start Relationship

Figure 5: A Start-to-Start Relationship

Figure 6: A Finish-to-Finish Relationship

Figure 7: A Start-to-Finish Relationship

Figure 8: Internal and External Dependencies

Figure 9: Example of a ‘Staggered’ dependency

Figure 10: Example of a ‘Two-Way’ dependency

Figure 11: Example of a ‘Revolving’ dependency

Figure 12: Example of a ‘One-to-Many’ dependency

Figure 13: Example of a ‘Many-to-One’ dependency

Figure 14: A Conceptual Model

Figure 15: A Context Diagram

Figure 16: A Rich Picture for a Cloud Migration Project

Figure 17: Stakeholder Sector Analysis, showing external stakeholders

Figure 18: A Dependency Map

Figure 19: A Product Breakdown Structure (PBS)

Figure 20: A Product Flow Diagram

Figure 21: Product Estimation Template

Figure 22: Project Schedule with Inbound and Outbound Interdependencies

Figure 23: A Dependency Log

Figure 24: Chaos Report results, 1994-2016

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