HBR Guide to Project Management

by Harvard Business Review

Overview

MEET YOUR GOALS—ON TIME AND ON BUDGET.

How do you rein in the scope of your project when you’ve got a group of demanding stakeholders breathing down your neck? And map out a schedule everyone can stick to? And motivate team members who have competing demands on their time and attention?

Whether you’re managing your first project or just tired of improvising, this guide will give you the tools and confidence you need to define smart goals, meet them, and capture lessons learned so future projects go even more smoothly.

The HBR Guide to Project Management will help you:

• Build a strong, focused team
• Break major objectives into manageable tasks
• Create a schedule that keeps all the moving parts under control
• Monitor progress toward your goals
• Manage stakeholders’ expectations
• Wrap up your project and gauge its success

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781422187296
Publisher:	Harvard Business Review Press
Publication date:	01/15/2013
Pages:	192
Sales rank:	100,392
Product dimensions:	4.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d)

Table of Contents

Phase 1 Planning 12 3 A

41 13 Your marching orders 12 4 Dealing with a Project's "Fuzzy Front End" 47 13

Loren Gary 12 5 Perform

Learn from your project while it's still alive

Gary Klein 12 6 Will Project Creep Cost You-or Create Value? 57 13 Set strict limits on scope, bu

Loren Gary 11 Phase 2 Build-Up 12 7 Setting Priorities Before St

65 13 Three steps for staying on t

Ron Ashkenas 12 8 Boost Productivity with Time-Boxing 73 13 Tips for getting your

Melissa Raffoni 12 9 Scheduling the

77 13 Put the horse before the cart 12 10

87 13 When

Tom Cross 12 11 Getting Your Project Off on the Right

101 13 Set your project

12 The Discipline of Teams 107 13

Mutual accountability leads to astonishing r

Jon R. Katzenbach Douglas K. Smith 11 Phase 3

13 Effective Project Meetings 113 13 Run

14 The Adaptive Approach to Project Management 117 1

What to do when your usua

15 Why Good Projects Fail Anyway 123 13 The risk

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Ronald N. Ashkenas 12 16 Monitoring and Controlling Your Project 127 13 Don

Ray Sheen

17 Managing People Problems on Your Team 135 13 Make sure people stay on task, pull their, we

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The Tools of Cooperation and Change 139 13 Wha

Clayton M. Christensen Matt Marx Howard H. Stevenson 12 19 Don't Throw Good

143 13 How to avoid

Jimmy Guterman 11 Phase 4 Closeout 12 20 Handing off Authority and Control 151 13 Gauge your succes

Ray Sheen 12 21 Capturing

157 13 Four steps to an effective after

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Glossary 163 01 Index 167