Transforming Project Management

Transforming Project Management takes you beyond envisioning a great strategy and into the realm of implementing it - with skill, care, and expertise. Petersen explains how to break down a strategic plan into key objectives and project portfolios to make sense of all the project "parts" - then successfully lead the execution of the plan. 

What if your technology organization stopped defending its cost and started proving its value? Profitable Engineering is a leadership book grounded in the realities of software delivery. It examines the organizational system behind engineering performance: how work is funded, prioritized, structured, measured, and led, and why those decisions often matter more than the framework teams follow. Most software organizations do not struggle because their people lack talent or because they chose the wrong methodology.

Forty projects and a Friday panic. Then the agents take the queue. Nora Ellis runs the services division of Northfield Industries: forty projects, sixty consultants who bill their hours, and a helpdesk whose queue nobody can see whole. On Friday 6 March, twenty-four of sixty timesheets are missing, three projects are past 80 per cent of budget with nobody warned, and a stopped-line P1 sits on page two of the queue. The ERP knew every one of these facts. A measured week puts the cost of running the division by phone and spreadsheet at 18,900 hours a year. Transforming ERP into AI-Native: The...

The construction industry is undergoing a technological revolution, and LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) is at the forefront of this transformation. From site surveying to autonomous construction vehicles, LiDAR is reshaping how projects are planned, executed, and monitored. This book explores the many applications of LiDAR in construction, demonstrating how it enhances accuracy, reduces costs, and improves safety. Over the years, traditional surveying and mapping methods have been time-consuming and prone to human error. However, LiDAR’s ability to generate high-resolution 3D models ...

Despite Agile's dominance in software development, 81% of UK and 89% of US business leaders are concerned about the timely delivery of projects. The success rates for transformation initiatives are alarming, with 96% of Agile transformations and 70% of digital transformations failing. Just 10% of companies that enter restructuring survive the process. Personal transformation success is also exceedingly rare, with only 7.5% of smokers successfully quitting despite 55% attempting to quit each year and just 1.8% of obese individuals maintaining a modest 5% weight loss over five years.

Design and construction industry practitioners collaborated to bring you Transforming Design and Construction: A Framework for Change, the first of LCI's Transforming Design and Construction series, to encourage discussion, learning, and experimentation around Lean processes. The short chapters focusses on various Lean topics. They are not designed as a "how-to" for Lean tools, but as a framework for learning and to guide you along your Lean journey.