About the Book
Project Control Methods and Best Practices: Achieving Project Success
An Amazon best seller –This book contains applied best practices in project control that will facilitate project success. If you are interested in how to reduce project financial wastage and cost overrun, then this book is for you. Project managers, project sponsors, project management office (PMO) leads and project control professionals, students, and heads of project delivery functions will all find this book valuable. The applied nature of this book enables it to also reveal the many challenges of project control in practice and then provides practical good practices to overcome them. This is accomplished by presenting a robust research-informed project control framework that views the project control process as a system influenced by its environment including challenges and inhibitors.
The book then guides the readers on how to achieve project success by presenting several measures to mitigate these project control inhibitors as well as good practices to enhance the entire project control process. The core concepts and fundamental techniques to support the project control process in practice are also provided in this book. Furthermore, this book will also enhance readers’ understanding of how to design an enabling environment for effective project control. The aim of the author is that readers who complete this book will be exposed to several good practices that can be used to enhance project delivery success, which they can then put to practice confidently on their projects.
About the author
Professor Yakubu Olawale
Professor Yakubu Olawale is the author of the applied project management book “Project Control Methods and Best Practices: Achieving Project Success” Published by Business Expert Press. He is multi-qualified as a Chartered Accountant, Chartered Surveyor, Chartered Construction Manager and Project Manager. He is a Consulting Leader at one of the 'big four' professional services companies in the world. He is also a Professor of Infrastructure Engineering. He has more than 20 years of experience in the areas of project and program controls, project management and commercial finance, and project and program advisory across many industries including infrastructure, telecom, construction, IT, financial services, pharmaceutical, facilities management, government, and energy.
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I’ve spoken at international conferences and given more than 100 academic lectures to share knowledge in the areas of project management, project controls, commercial management, cost management, professional development etc. My talks are usually full of substance, backed by current research and latest best practices. Which I bring to live with practical examples to make the concepts I cover easy to understand and implement. For speaking enquiries, contact info@yakubuolawale.com
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Projects are so much part of business today, yet we struggle with the control aspect more than ever. The beauty of this book is the applied approach that encourages the reader to transfer the ideas into their practice in order to realise greater success. The clarity and accessibility of the ideas and writing suggest it should be on the bookshelf of anyone engaged in project management prac- tice or study.”—
Professor Robin Clark
Dean of WMG, University of Warwick, UK
The publication of this book is timely. Delivering successful projects has never been more important in terms of economic and wider societal wellbeing. This book provides many excellent insights into the critical success factors. It is based on Dr Olawale’s unique blend of extensive practical project management expe- rience in a variety of settings and the academic rigour that his strong research background brings.
Professor Edward Sweeney
Edinburgh Business School, Heriot Watt University, UK