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…mehr
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.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Richard was born and grew up at Horton Farm and enjoyed the rugged life of a farmer's son growing up in Shropshire. When he left school, he at first worked on the farm alongside his father before going to the RMAS Sandhurst as a TA Officer Cadet. He then joined the Regular Army and served with the 10th Bt Gurkha Rifles in Hong Kong and Borneo and then the Light Infantry in Northern Ireland and Germany. When he left the Regulars in the mid-1990s, he again worked on the farm for a few years before joining the Police in which he now still serves. Richard remained a Reservist and has seen operational service in Kabul, Afghanistan in 2002-03. Very happily married to Louise to whom Chasing Crows is dedicated and in memory of his parents. Richard now runs the farm with his wife and three children where they run a small Aberdeen Angus herd and breed Shire Horses.
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UNDERSTANDING PROJECTS: What are projects and why do they fail? Dead project walking - why you need to kill projects. WHERE ARE WE? Diagnosing an existing project. GETTING THE RIGHT INITIAL PLAN: Leading projects Project scope and initialization Agreeing objectives Milestones Refining milestones Activities/work breakdown structure Assigning resources Time estimation Resource availability Dependencies Risk and mitigation. GETTING THE PLAN RIGHT: Optimizing the plan. STAYING ON TRACK: Roles, responsibilities and communication Updating the plan Monitoring progress Handling issues Controlling change Project closure. APPENDICES: The changing nature of projects About project software Project management approaches and methodologies.
UNDERSTANDING PROJECTS: What are projects and why do they fail? Dead project walking - why you need to kill projects. WHERE ARE WE? Diagnosing an existing project. GETTING THE RIGHT INITIAL PLAN: Leading projects Project scope and initialization Agreeing objectives Milestones Refining milestones Activities/work breakdown structure Assigning resources Time estimation Resource availability Dependencies Risk and mitigation. GETTING THE PLAN RIGHT: Optimizing the plan. STAYING ON TRACK: Roles, responsibilities and communication Updating the plan Monitoring progress Handling issues Controlling change Project closure. APPENDICES: The changing nature of projects About project software Project management approaches and methodologies.
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