Manage It! Your Guide to Modern, Pragmatic Project Management

Description

This book is a reality-based guide for modern projects. You'll learn how to recognize your project's potholes and ruts, and determine the best way to fix problems - without causing more problems.

 Your project can't fail. That's a lot of pressure on you, and yet you don't want to buy into any one specific process, methodology, or lifecycle.

 Your project is different. It doesn't fit into those neat descriptions.

 Manage It! will show you how to beg, borrow, and steal from the best methodologies to fit your particular project. It will help you find what works best for you and not for some mythological project that doesn't even exist.

 Before you know it, your project will be on track and headed to a successful conclusion.

CONTENTS:

Starting a projectp. 1

Planning the projectp. 17

Using life cycles to design your projectp. 35

Scheduling the projectp. 49

Estimating the workp. 63

Recognizing and avoiding schedule gamesp. 87

Creating a great project teamp. 121

Steering the projectp. 143

Maintaining project rhythmp. 167

Managing meetingsp. 183

Creating and using a project dashboardp. 201

Managing multisite projectsp. 235

Integrating testing into the projectp. 255

Managing programsp. 279

Completing a projectp. 289

Managing the project portfoliop. 307

More detailed information about life cyclesp. 323