Project Rescue : Avoiding a Project Management Disaster

Description:

Follow the exact steps the experts have successfully taken to rescue a project from failure. This informative and concise book will guide you step-by-step through an effective intervention, allowing you to salvage more than you might think of a project’s deliverables and goals. Recognize the early warning signs of decline, then develop swift strategies to handle communication and consensus, research, diagnosis, and timing. Proven techniques, along with case studies and sidebars, help you understand exactly how to save your project--and possibly your career.

 

Table of Contents:

Part I: Troubled Projects

Chapter 1: Recognizing the Warning Signs

Chapter 2: Four-Phase Intervention Framework

Chapter 3: Rescue Deliverable Framework

Chapter 4: Early Detection Questions

Part II: Assessment

Chapter 5: Diagnosing the Situation

Chapter 6: Risk Management

Chapter 7: Assessment Questionnaire

Part III: Planning the Intervention

Chapter 8: Establishing a Management Control Office

Chapter 9: Defining the Project Rescue Approach

Chapter 10: Building a New Project or Rescue Plan

Part IV: Execute the Intervention

Chapter 11: Managing the Intervention

Chapter 12: Incremental Adjustment

Chapter 13: Execution Phase Questionnaire

Part V: Post-Intervention

Chapter 14: Forensic Project Review and Lessons Learned

Chapter 15: Realigning with Industry Best Practices

Chapter 16: Post-Intervention Intervention Questionnaire

Part VI: Intervention Techniques

Chapter 17: Conflict Management, Building Consensus, and Group Relationships

Chapter 18: Additional Tools

Chapter 19: Virtual Database of Experiences and Techniques