Common Sense in Project Management

Description

Common Sense in Project Management offers project managers a new way to add value, eliminate useless tasks, and empower developers. It enables you to maintain your current project management tools and processes while guiding you through the application of new steps designed to mitigate risks and raise new issues that better support your company and create competitive advantages. Learn how to bring creative problem solving to your projects, divide responsibility among team members, and solve critical problems early in a projectbefore they become more costly to correct. Discover the types of information gathered throughout the project and learn how that information is used to reach goals.

Table Of Contents

Part I: Managing Innovation Through Projects
1. How Innovation Happens in a Project
2. Crucial Roles in Project Innovation
3. How to Succeed as a Project Innovator
4. What an Innovative Project Looks Like
Part II: From Basic Concepts to a Working Project
5. Getting Started
6. Finding Good Ideas Within the Project
7. Avoiding Typical New Project Mistakes
8. Project Innovation
Part III: The Tricks of the Trade: Add Significant Value to Your Deliverables
9. Advice for Hands-on Project Innovators
10. The Middle Management Role
11. The Senior Management Role in Innovative Project Management
Part IV: Innovative Project Management with Best Practices
12. Specific Activities to Start the CS-PM Process
13. Investigating a Combined Business and Technical Element
14. Implementation of Selected Parts of the Project
15. Conclusion: Managing Innovation Through Projects
Part V: Appendices
A: Forms
B: Donald Geldernick's Bibliography Resource List