Project Management for Healthcare.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author -- Section I: Definition -- 1. Defining a Project -- What Is a Project? -- What Is a Project Life Cycle? -- The History of Project Management -- Roles and Responsibilities in Project Management -- Project Management and the Healthcare Environment -- Establishing Relationships in Healthcare -- Differences in Management -- Strategic Management -- Operations Management -- Crisis Management -- Project Management -- Summary -- Key Review Questions -- Endnotes -- 2. Planning for a Project -- Why Are Projects Chosen? -- Personal -- Financial -- Competitive -- Safety -- Regulatory -- Artificial Intelligence (AI) -- Precision Medicine (PM) -- Summary -- Decision-Making Tools for Choosing a Project -- Root Cause Analysis -- Cost-Benefit Analysis -- Brainstorming -- Consensus Building -- Organizational Structure Influences on Project Choices -- Functional Organization -- Matrixed Organization -- Project-Focused Organization -- Other Considerations for Project Choice -- Regulatory and Industry/Organization Standards -- Key Review Questions -- Endnote -- 3. Getting Started -- Project Sponsor -- Project Charter -- Goals and Objectives -- Project Players -- Project Plan -- The Project Charter -- Scope Statement -- Requirements and Expectations -- Detailed Project Description -- Milestones and Deliverables -- Acceptance/Success Criteria -- Contractual Specifications -- The Work Breakdown Structure -- Dealing with the Creeps -- Key Review Questions -- Endnotes -- Section II: The Details -- 4. Time -- Estimating Time -- Historical Information -- Lessons Learned -- Expert Judgment -- 3- and 6-Point Estimates -- Getting Estimates -- Trusting the Data -- Pushing Back -- Who Will Do the Tasks? -- Understanding Scheduling Tools -- Network Diagram.

Start-End-Float -- Gantt Chart -- Task Relationships -- Other Dependency Considerations -- Leads and Lags -- Calendars and Updating -- Sequencing Tasks -- Schedule Development -- Schedule Control -- Crashing -- Fast Tracking -- Key Review Questions -- 5. Costs -- Estimating Cost -- Cost Categories -- Direct Costs -- Variable Costs -- Indirect Costs -- Special Case Costs -- Capital Costs -- Assessing Costs -- Types of Estimates -- Order of Magnitude -- Budget Estimate -- Definitive Estimate -- Pro Forma Assessments -- Other Estimating Considerations -- Cost Estimating Tools -- Analogous Estimating -- Parametric Estimating -- Bottom-Up Estimating -- Allocating Budgeted Costs -- Key Review Questions -- Endnote -- 6. Quality -- History of Quality in the United States -- Project Quality Management -- Project Planning -- Quality Management Tools -- Flow Charts -- Cause-and-Effect Diagrams -- Check Sheets -- Pareto Charts -- Histograms -- Control Charts -- Scatter Plot -- Project Quality Control -- Project Quality Assurance -- What Is Quality? -- A Transcendent Approach -- Product-Based Approach -- User-Based Approach -- Manufacturing-Based Approach -- Value-Based Approach -- Quality of Service Approaches -- Basic Statistical Concepts Used in Quality Assessment -- Attributes and Variables -- Mean, Median, Mode -- Range, Variance, Standard Deviation -- The Cost of Quality -- Summary -- Key Review Questions -- Endnotes -- 7. Communications -- Process of Communicating -- Methods of Communicating -- Conditions of Communications -- Barriers to Communications -- Improving Your Communications -- Variables of Communications -- Communications Management Plan -- Communications Plan -- Improving Communications -- Social Media and Healthcare -- Reporting -- Key Review Questions -- Endnotes -- 8. Change -- Dealing with Change -- Monitoring and Controlling Changes.

Change as a Good Things -- Support and Authority -- Project Managers as Change Agents -- Projects/Change Are One and the Same -- Summary -- Key Review Questions -- Endnotes -- 9. Risk -- What Is Risk? -- Risk and Reward -- Interviewing -- Risk Matrices -- Risk Identification -- What to Consider -- Qualitative and Quantitative Risk Analysis -- Lesson Learned -- Responding to Risk -- Mitigating Risk -- Accepting Risk -- Monitoring Risks -- Earned Value Management -- Specific Example of Risk Assessment -- Clarity and Specificity of Requirements Risks -- Key Review Questions -- Endnotes -- 10. Contracting and Procurement -- What Is a Contract? -- Contract Types -- Fixed Price Contracts -- Cost Reimbursable Contracts -- Organizing for Contracting -- Centralized Contracting -- Decentralized Contracting -- The Procurement Process -- Pre-Purchase -- Purchase -- Post-Purchase -- Contract Administration and Close-Out -- Key Review Questions -- Endnotes -- 11. Project Close-Out -- Internally Facing Reason -- Externally Facing Reason -- Contract Closure -- Closing Out the Team -- Key Review Questions -- 12. The Role of the Project Manager -- Skill Set -- Roles and Responsibilities -- Communications -- Processes and Procedures -- Making Plans -- Estimating Time and Costs -- Provide Necessary Status and Tracking -- Summary -- Key Review Questions -- Endnote -- Section III: Management Skills as a Necessity -- 13. Motivation, Teaming, and the Project Team -- History of Motivation -- What Motivates You? -- Teaming -- Forming -- Storming -- Norming -- Performing -- Adjourning -- Why Are Teams so Important? -- The Project Team -- Choosing a Project Team -- Planning for the Team -- Developing a Project -- Key Review Questions -- Endnotes -- 14. Leadership and Power -- Leadership -- Leadership versus Management -- Leadership Theories -- Power -- Power Defined.

Power Structures -- Key Review Questions -- Endnotes -- 15. Negotiating and Conflict Management -- What Is a Negotiation? -- The Logical Component -- The Emotional Component -- Types of Negotiations -- Negotiation Styles -- People Who Are Different -- Specifically Managing Conflict -- Key Review Questions -- Endnotes -- Section IV: Beyond Project Management -- 16. Program Management -- Program Phases -- Setting Customer Expectations -- Core Program Team Elements -- Program Director -- Program Engineer -- Program Planner/Scheduler -- Site Project Manager -- Program Clerk -- Program Documentation -- The Integrated Plan -- Statement of Work -- Work Breakdown Structure -- Costs -- Working the Detailed Schedule -- Plan, Obtain, and Execute -- Integration -- Ongoing Operations -- Close-Out -- Summary -- Key Review Questions -- Endnotes -- Section V: Intersection of Healthcare and Manufacturing -- 17. Project Management - Pharma and Medical Device Manufacturing -- Project Needs and Initiation -- Project Development -- Waterfall -- Iterative Development -- Endnotes -- Section VI: Greening Healthcare -- 18. Sustainability and Green Efforts in Healthcare -- Sustainability -- The Greening of Healthcare -- The Organization -- The Facility -- Your Team -- Your Project -- Yourself -- Sustainability and the Sustainability Wheel -- The Sustainability Wheel -- Have a Good Mission Statement -- Develop an Environmental Management Plan -- Summary -- Key Review Questions -- Endnotes -- Section VII: Healthcare Agility -- 19. Application of Agile in the Healthcare Environment -- Understanding the Agile Process -- Agile Basics -- Lean Project Management -- Summary -- Endnotes -- Appendix A: A New Way to Think about Planning - Set the Stage -- Appendix B: Reports Report -- Appendix C: The Importance of Communication and Risk Management.

Appendix D: Answers to Key Review Questions -- Index.

Updated for agile project management and the latest standards on project management, this bestseller explores the discipline of project management from the perspective of the healthcare environment.

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