Winner of PMI’s 2011 David I. Cleland Project Management Literature Award
- Explains how to tap into green incentives, including grants, rebates, and tax credits
- Includes case studies that illustrate how to integrate green techniques and methods to generate cost savings and maximize resources
- Provides green techniques that take little time to implement, can benefit all types of projects, and can generate immediate savings to your project’s bottom line
Praise for:
A first-of-its-kind book ... a must-read for senior executives as well as project managers.
—Harold Kerzner, Ph.D., Senior Executive Director for Project Management at The International Institute for Learning
... an impressive piece of work.
—Jean Binder, PMP, MBA, award-winning author (David I. Cleland Literature Award, 2008)
This important book defines the green field and sets out the steps for those who want to be ahead of the crowd...
—Dr. David Hillson, PMP, FAPM, FIRM, MCMI, Director of Risk Doctor & Partners
... an incredible call to arms to increase your project greenality for a better world, or a bigger pay check, if you’re still cynical on this topic.
—Bas de Baar, ProjectShrink.com
... an excellent job of making the reader aware of how much influence a single project manager, let alone an entire discipline, can have on improving our environment.
—Professor Schwalbe, Department of Business Administration, Augsburg College
SURFING THE GREEN WAVE
Problem Drivers and Indicators
Climate Change
Population Increase
Rapidly Developing Nations and Resource Depletion
Environmental Degradation and Loss of Biodiversity
Government Agencies, Mandates, and Guidelines
Green Project Terminology: The Language of the Green Wave
Carbon Footprint and Sustainability
The Cycle of Sustainability
Cradle to Cradle
The Natural Step
Corporate Social Responsibility and the Green Project Manager
Biodegradable
Greenwashing
Triple Bottom Line
Eco Audit
Reduce, Redesign, Reuse, Recycle
Renewable Energy
SMARTER Objectives
Understanding Green Project Fundamentals
Green, Quality, and Greenality
Reducing Nonproduct Output
The Project Management Institute and Greenality
Cost of Greenality
Project Life Cycle Thinking
Project Cycle of Sustainability
Environmental Scope
Environmental Risks
Stakeholders
Types of Projects: A Rainbow of Green
Green by Definition
Green by Project Impact (or the Lack Thereof)
Green by Product Impact
GreenGeneral
A Rainbow of Green
HIKING THE PROJECT
Project Ideation
Why Are Projects Initiated?
How Are Projects Chosen?
Decision-Making Tools and the Green Component
Creating the “Green”-Friendly Decision-Making Environment
Changing the Way People Think About Green
Decision-Making Tools
Validation of the Decision
Creating a Green Charter
The Initial Project Kickoff Meeting
Acting on the Idea
Tools and Techniques
Greenality of Project Communications
The Spirit of the Communication
Jeopardy and Escalation Processes
Greenality of Suppliers
Developing the Project
Project Planning
Sustainability and the WBS
Who and What Are Required for the Project
Greening the People
Greening the Schedule
Greening the Project Purchasing (Procurement)Process
Greening Project Costs
Greening Project Quality
Risk and Greenality
Greenality Outputs
Environmental Management Plan
Executing the Project
The Project Team
The Kickoff Meeting (Implementation)
Greenality Assurance
Tracking Project Process
Status and Progress ReportingUsing Social Media to Green Communications
Execution of Greenality Efforts
Warning Signs of Greenality Problems
Greenality of Suppliers
Capturing Greenality Lessons Learned
Taking the Watch (Monitoring and Controlling)
Greenality Data Collection and Analysis
Measuring the Performance of Greenality
Controlling the Issues
Keeping on an Even Keel
Change Control and Greenality
Effective Actions to Abate Greenality Issues
APPROACHING THE FINISH LINE
The Beginning and the End?
Heaven on Earth
Life Cycle Thinking Basics
Life Cycle Assessment
A Brief History
Standards for LCA
Carbon Footprinting Based on LCA
Performing an LCA
How to Promote the Use of an LCA
The Life Cycle of the Product of Your Project
LCA Software Tools
Lean Thinking, Muda, and the Four Ls
Lean Thinking and Your Project
Lean Methods
At the Top of Their Game
Patagonia
Timberland
Interface
Google
Office Depot
Microsoft
General Electric
Steward Advanced MaterialsHome of “The Toxin Terminator”
Sun Chips
Enabling Green to Earn You "Green”
Green Government PurchasingEPA
Grants and Rebates
Actions Undertaken
CROSSING THE FINISH LINE
Tips, Tools, and Techniques to Green (A Green Project Manager’s Toolbox)
Resource Information
Books We Think You Should Read or Reference
Suggested Reading on Life Cycle Assessment
Collaboration Tools and Resources
Resource for Improving Team Collaboration Using
Web-Based Media
Green Efforts by Companies and Other
OrganizationsA Sampler
Web Sites Worth a Visit and a Stay
Additional Tools and Resources for Green Project Managers
Each chapter concludes with Endnotes
Biography
Rich Maltzman, PMP , has been an engineer since 1978 and a project management supervisor since 1988, including a recent two-year assignment in the Netherlands in which he built a team of PMs overseeing deployments of telecom networks in Europe and the Middle East. His project work has been diverse, including projects such as the successful deployment of the entire video and telecom infrastructure for the 1996 Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta, and the 2006 integration of the program management offices (PMOs) of two large merging corporations. As a second, but intertwined career, Rich has also focused on consulting and teaching, having developed curricula and/or taught at:
- Boston University's Corporate E ducation Center
- Merrimack College
- Northern Essex Community College
- University of Massachusetts-Lowell
A first-of-its-kind book ... links the necessity of going green with project management. ... This book offers a flexible and adaptive approach to bridging the gap between going green and project management. ... a must-read for senior executives as well as project managers.
—Harold Kerzner, Ph.D., Senior Executive Director for Project Management at The International Institute for Learning... an impressive piece of work. An indispensable book for project managers who are responsible for green projects, and an essential source for anyone willing to apply good project management principles to green initiatives. Maltzman and Shirley guide us through the impacts of green to project management, helping us to understand the basic vocabulary and principles, and potential developments and needs. The book also introduces new perspectives that are likely to become a reference in the field: the SMARTER principle, the green spectrum of projects, and a detailed guide to the green project life cycle.
—Jean Binder, PMP, MBA, International Speaker and award winning author (David I. Cleland Literature Award, 2008)The green imperative affects us all, personally and professionally, whether we recognize it or not. Green Project Management is an idea whose time has almost come, and very soon all project managers will need demonstrable green credentials. This important book defines the green field and sets out the steps for those who want to be ahead of the crowd, allowing us to take a considered response instead of being forced to react when green is no longer an option. But do it because you should, not because you must.
—Dr. David Hillson, PMP, FAPM, FIRM, MCMI, Director of Risk Doctor & Partners
Greenality is the new black. Project managers need to consider the sustainability or greenness of their projects in the 21st Century; it is now part of their remit to make the best use of resources with this in mind.
—Peter Taylor, Author of The Lazy Project Manager... an incredible call to arms to increase your project greenality for a better world, or a bigger pay check, if you’re still cynical on this topic. Green + Quality is what your customers are demanding, and Rich and Dave wrote the ultimate guide for Project Managers to learn how to do this: metrics, definitions, examples and, very important, planning. Awesome!
—Bas de Baar, ProjectShrink.comIn this well-researched book, they explain why project managers need to view things through an environmental lens. Their measure of greenality will become another project process; a success factor by default for future projects. Maltzman and Shirley haven’t lost sight of the business imperative, either. They explain how being green is good for the bottom line, and when the business case stacks up, it’s good for projects and the planet.
—Elizabeth Harrin, Author of the award-winning blog A Girl's Guide to Project Management
Unless you plan on leading a project to colonize the moon, you'd better incorporate this book's greenality principles into your project success scorecard. We've only got one planet to live on last time I checked.
—Kimberly Wiefling, Author, Scrappy Project Management... an excellent job of making the reader aware of how much influence a single project manager, let alone an entire discipline, can have on improving our environment. They suggest that project managers add another focus to their work: viewing projects through an environmental lens. Maltzman and Shirley coin the term "greenality" to describe the degree to which you consider environmental factors that affect projects throughout the entire project life cycle and beyond. Greenality can be applied to all projects, and we will all benefit from this important concept.
—Kathy Schwalbe, Author & Professor, Department of Business Administration, Augsburg CollegeMaltzmann (engineering, project management supervision) and Shirley (management, project management) offer guidance for project managers on how to implement green techniques and methods and maintain a healthy project bottom line. The authors address green terminology, green project fundamentals, types of projects, project development, execution, monitoring and controlling, life cycle assessment, lean thinking, and funding opportunities such as grants, rebates, and tax credits.
—In Research Book News, booknews.com, February 2011