The people side of project management

... Acknowledgments v Introduction vii PART I :The Project Management Jungle Chapter 1: Welcome to the Project Management Jungle Escape Is Possible from the Project Management Jungle What Creates the Project Management ... www.amanet.org 14 THE PROJECT MANAGEMENT JUNGLE Succeeding in the Project Management Jungle Enough background—you have a pro...

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... Acknowledgments v Introduction vii PART I :The Project Management Jungle Chapter 1: Welcome to the Project Management Jungle Escape Is Possible from the Project Management Jungle What Creates the Project Management ... www.amanet.org 14 THE PROJECT MANAGEMENT JUNGLE Succeeding in the Project Management Jungle Enough background—you have a pro...

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... creating the project charter in initiating or in choosing the appropriate change control process in planning Pitfalls that affect initiating, planning, executing, monitoring and controlling (and ... this in the small town of Devine, Texas Next time you eat some guacamole, think of Devine and the Mark Kidd Insurance Agency And think of the value of words like integr...

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... her management for doing so, playing into her existing fears that management was going to micromanage her, especially given the time constraint Cheryl made the decision to reveal to her management ... lot of pressure on the managers above us in the food chain Because I was new to the semiconductor business and to the culture of the group, I spent most of...

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... chapter, the project charter states what the project is going to accomplish Involving the team appropriately in the process of clearly defining the problem they are going to work on is the right thing ... during the projects The ISAT can help you in many ways Obviously, you can use it in the initiating phase to convince yourself to avoid or accept a proj...

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... another statistical casualty in the project management jungle Project Pitfall: The Danger of Constant Firefighting— Executing the Grant Way In Chapter 8, we discussed the ineffective continuous ... from the replan People are going to ask Bottom line: be prepared, and life will be much easier for you Avoiding Toxic Management in Planning Toxic management that...

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... PMs are too often trained to bother anybody on the project until they get the data they think they need to control the project Then they try to implement their decisions and often find they don’t ... needed—daily most of the time in the war room for fifteen-minute stand-up meetings The meeting agenda should include a quick look at the next few days, using the tool...

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... taking action items and being told how to manage the project We shipped as many of the units as we could get to work and closed the project The customer was glad to have the hardware, and our management ... hard to drive down the amount of time involved in all the reporting by questioning the intent of the action items management assigns Where pos...

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... and the Expectations Pyramid in the five project phases of initiating, planning, executing, monitoring and controlling, and closing At its heart, TACTILE Management is centered on people These tools ... like any other A light burns inside a beautiful Tudor-style custom home on the edge of the Northwest Hills in Austin, Texas Inside, yet another busy knowledge-worker team...

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... see how the project they are managing meshes with the organization’s mission, and then steer the project to ensure that the interests of the organization are met ៑ The first skills a project ... The Role of the Project Manager 29 deliver the services that the customer expects The manager is an enabler of employees They are actually servants of employees,...

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... affect the rest of the work) The reason is that the bar chart (in its original format) did not show the interdependencies of the work (Contemporary software does show links between bars, making them ... difficult The most efficient way is to take a class Do check out the instructor’s knowledge of project management before choosing which class to take Some of the pe...

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... Project Management 116 Characteristics of a Project Control System The control system must focus on project objectives, with the aim of ensuring that the project mission is achieved To that, the ... evaluate a project is to attempt to determine whether the overall status of the work is acceptable, in terms of intended value to the client once the job is fini...

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... informed of project status This can also help ensure that the completed project will meet the needs of the client ៑ Reaffirm the organization’s commitment to the project for the benefit of project ... for conducting periodic project process reviews You should be able to: ៑ Improve project performance together with the management of the project ៑ Ensure...

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... Fundamentals of Project Management then perhaps we should just give up on the whole thing and keep running projects by the seat of the pants Right? Wrong The fact that measures of progress The difficulty ... see these tools as all they need to manage successfully They assemble a team, give the members their instructions, then sit back and watch the project selfdestru...

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