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 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: Most important factors for successful highly complex projects

Figure 18: Stakeholder Sector Analysis, showing external stakeholders

Figure 19: A Reviewer History Table

Figure 20: A Responsibility Assignment Matrix (RAM)

Figure 21: A RACI Matrix

Figure 22: Third Party Consultation Tracking

Figure 23: A Key Dependencies table for inclusion in a commercial agreement

Figure 24: Tracking Agreement on Third-Party Dependencies

Figure 25: A Dependency Map

Figure 26: A Product Breakdown Structure (PBS)

Figure 27: A Product Flow Diagram

Figure 28: Product Estimation Template

Figure 29: Three-Part Task Estimates

Figure 30: Adding Inbound and Outbound Milestones to project activities to simplify dependency tracking

Figure 31: Project Schedule with Inbound and Outbound Interdependencies

Figure 32: Phased Dependency Review Approach

Figure 33: Aligning with External Dependencies

Figure 34: Tracking Agreement on Dependencies

Figure 35: A Dependency Log

Figure 36: Example Schedule, Showing Critical Path

Figure 37: Chaos Report results, 1994-2016

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