HBR's guide to project management :
HBR's guide to project management : motivate your team avoid scope creep deliver results.
- Boston, Mass. : Harvard Business Review Press, 2012.
- x, 171 p. ; 23 cm.
- Harvard business review guides. .
Includes index.
The four phases of project management --
The cast of characters --
A written charter --
Dealing with a project's fuzzy front end / Loren Gary --
Performing a project premortem / Gary Klein --
Will project creep cost you-or create value? / Loren Gary --
Setting priorities before starting your project / Ron Ashkenas --
Boost productivity with time-boxing / Melissa Raffoni --
Scheduling the work --
HBR case study : a rush to failure? / Tim Cross --
Getting your project off on the right foot --
The discipline of teams / Jon R. Katzenbach and Douglas K. Smith --
Effective project meetings --
The adaptive approach to project management --
Why good projects fail anyway / Nadim F. Matta and Ronald N Ashkenas --
Monitoring and controlling your project / Ray Sheen --
Managing people problems on your team --
The tools of cooperation and change / Clayton M. Christensen, Matt Marx, and Howard H. Stevenson --
Don't throw good money (or time) after bad / Jimmy Guterman --
Handing off authority and control / Ray Sheen --
Capturing lessons learned / Ray Sheen.
We all wish we could sharpen key management skills like writing more effective emails or proposals, focusing to-do lists on what really matters, giving more persuasive presentations, or dealing with a boss who makes you want to scream. But who has the time? The HBR Guides can help.
9781422187296
Communication.
Management
Project management.
658.404
Includes index.
The four phases of project management --
The cast of characters --
A written charter --
Dealing with a project's fuzzy front end / Loren Gary --
Performing a project premortem / Gary Klein --
Will project creep cost you-or create value? / Loren Gary --
Setting priorities before starting your project / Ron Ashkenas --
Boost productivity with time-boxing / Melissa Raffoni --
Scheduling the work --
HBR case study : a rush to failure? / Tim Cross --
Getting your project off on the right foot --
The discipline of teams / Jon R. Katzenbach and Douglas K. Smith --
Effective project meetings --
The adaptive approach to project management --
Why good projects fail anyway / Nadim F. Matta and Ronald N Ashkenas --
Monitoring and controlling your project / Ray Sheen --
Managing people problems on your team --
The tools of cooperation and change / Clayton M. Christensen, Matt Marx, and Howard H. Stevenson --
Don't throw good money (or time) after bad / Jimmy Guterman --
Handing off authority and control / Ray Sheen --
Capturing lessons learned / Ray Sheen.
We all wish we could sharpen key management skills like writing more effective emails or proposals, focusing to-do lists on what really matters, giving more persuasive presentations, or dealing with a boss who makes you want to scream. But who has the time? The HBR Guides can help.
9781422187296
Communication.
Management
Project management.
658.404