Project Management Survival: A Practical Guide to Leading, Managing & Delivering Challenging Projects
- 2h 51m
- Richard Jones
- Kogan Page
- 2007
This book is written for the person who finds themselves handed a major corporate project and is wondering how to see it through successfully without ending up on the candidacy list for the sack.
Written from a real-world perspective, this book provides you with a template for success based on project management techniques from the school of corporate hard knocks. Author Richard Jones shows you how to avoid project killers, such as inheriting an incompetent, scared, or doomed team. He also gives practical advice on getting to the truth of a project, getting the right initial plan, developing a genuinely workable plan, and reveals how to manage people so the project stays on track.
If you are tasked suddenly with managing a project in-house, the likelihood is that you will find that you are dumped in an impossible situation. This book shows you how to control the situation and come out on top.
In this Book
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What Are Projects and Why Do They Fail?
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Dead Project Walking - Why Some Projects Must be Killed
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Diagnosing an Existing Project
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Leading Projects
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Project Scope and Initiation
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Agreeing Objectives
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Milestones
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Refining Milestones
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Activities/Work Breakdown Structure
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Assigning Resources
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Time Estimation
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Resource Availability
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Dependencies
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Risk and Mitigation
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Optimizing the Plan
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Roles, Responsibilities and Communication
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Updating the Plan
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Monitoring Progress
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Handling Issues
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Controlling Change
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Reporting
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Project Closure
