HBR Guide to Project Management

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.

HBR Guide to Project Management

HBR

Harvard Business Review Press

2012

Abstract

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

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Contents:

Overview

1. The Four Phrases of Project Management

2. The Cast of Characters

Phase 1: Planning

3. A Written Charter

4. Dealing with a Project’s “Fuzzy Front End”

5. Performing a Project Premortem

6. Will Project Creep Cost You – or Create Value

Phase 2: Build –Up

7. Setting Priorities Before Starting Your Project

8. Boost Productivity with Time – Boxing

9. Scheduling the Work

10. HBR Case Study: A Rush to Failure?

11. Getting Your Project Off on the Right Foot

12. The Discipline of Teams

Phase 3: Implementation

13. Effective Project Meetings

14. The Adaptive Approach to Project Management

15. Why Good Projects Fail Anyway

16. Monitoring and Controlling Your Project

17. Managing People Problems on Your Team

18. The Tools of Cooperation and Change

19. Don’t throw Good Money Affter Bad

Phase 4: Closeout

20. Handing off Authority and Control

21. Capturing Lessons Learned

Citation

HBR. HBR Guide to Project Management. Harvard Business Review Press, 2012.

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