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.