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| Overview | |
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| The Four Phases of Project Management | |
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| What's involved in planning, build-up, implementation, and closeout-and how these processes overlap | |
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| The Cast of Characters | |
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| Who's who in project management | |
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| Planning | |
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| A Written Charter | |
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| Your marching orders | |
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| Dealing with a Project's "Fuzzy Front End" | |
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| you can't eliminate uncertainty in the early stages of a complex project-but you can manage it | |
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| Performing a Project Premortem | |
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| Learn from your project while it's still alive and well | |
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| Will Project Creep Cost You-or Create Value? | |
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| Set strict limits on scope, but be flexible when major opportunities arise | |
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| Build-Up | |
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| Setting Priorities Before Starting Your Project | |
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| Three steps for staying on track | |
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| Boost Productivity with Time-Boxing | |
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| Tips for getting your team's calendars-and yours-under control | |
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| Scheduling the Work | |
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| Put the horse before the cart | |
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| HBR Case Study: A Rush to Failure? | |
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| When does speed trump quality? | |
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| Getting Your Project Off on the Right Foot | |
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| Set your project up for success with a well-planned launch | |
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| The Discipline of Teams | |
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| Mutual accountability leads to astonishing results | |
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| Implementation | |
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| Effective Project Meetings | |
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| Run your meetings well, and infuse your project with energy and direction | |
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| The Adaptive Approach to Project Management | |
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| What to do when your usual decision tools cease to be useful in the face of uncertainty | |
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| Why Good Projects Fail Anyway | |
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| The risks that come with big projects-and how to manage them | |
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| Monitoring and Controlling Your Project | |
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| Don't be afraid to revise your plan | |
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| Managing People Problems on Your Team | |
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| Make sure people stay on task, pull their, weight, work together, and meet quality standards | |
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| The Tools of Cooperation and Change | |
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| What to do when people disagree on goals, how to achieve them, or both | |
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| Don't Throw Good Money (or Time) After Bad | |
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| How to avoid chasing after sunk costs | |
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| Closeout | |
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| Handing off Authority and Control | |
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| Gauge your success before wrapping things up | |
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| Capturing Lessons Learned | |
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| Four steps to an effective after-action review | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Index | |