Project Soup: Recipes for Managing to Success

Robert Prinzo

Description

Project management is much like making a soup. And just as there are many recipes for chicken soup, there are many project management methodologies available. However, the reality is that project management methodologies are similar to the homemade soup recipes passed on from generation to generation in that each project is different because each organizations and environment are unique. As a project manager, or the Chef, you are always making a different recipe in a different kitchen, but expected to provide the same outcome—a successful project or delicious bowl of soup.

So that is what this book is: it is a series of step by step articles and essays (a.k.a. recipes) that outline the steps involved in resolving a variety of situations that you may encounter on your project. These recipes include:

* Seven Steps for Assessing any Business Situation
* How to Establish a Project Blue Print
* Developing a Plan to Identify Quick Wins
* Defining a Project Success
* Best Practices for Software Implementation Success
* Tips for Communicating with Executives
* Creating Successful Procurement Conferences
* Determining End User Skill Sets
* A Framework for Software Customization Decisions
* How to Prepare for the 'Marathon Project'
* Managing Risk, Volatility and the Inflection Point
* How to Build Stakeholder Consensus

If you are looking for a complicated step by step approach for planning and managing projects containing charts, graphs, pictures and complex diagrams, then this is not the book for you. If you are looking for an easy to read book that provides tips and techniques in easily relatable, digestible nuggets; then you are in the right place.

Sujets

• Gestion de projets
• Gestion de projet
• Management
• Business
• Economics
• Gestion et management

Informations

• Publié par: eBookIt.com
• Date de parution: 05 novembre 2013
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780983033578
• Langue: English

Extrait

Table of Contents
Project Soup:
Introduction
Table of Contents
Soup: The Perfect Metaphor for Project Management
Recipe #1: Seven Steps to Assessing any Business Situation
Recipe #2: Establishing a Project Blueprint
Recipe #3: How to Develop a Plan to Identify Quick Wins
Recipe #4: Defining Project Success
Recipe #5: Six Best Practices for Software Implementation Success
Recipe #6: Quick Tips for Communicating with Executives
Recipe #7: Creating Successful Bidder’s Conferences
Recipe #8: Determining End User Skill Sets
Recipe #9: A Framework for Software Customization Decisions
Project Soup:
Recipes for Managing to Success

Rob Prinzo
Copyright © 2013 Rob Prinzo
All rights reserved.
ISBN: 0983033579
ISBN-13: 978-0-9830335-7 - 8
Dedication
For C, K & T
Introduction
I am not a very good cook, but I can follow a recipe. Sometimes what I make tastes good, sometimes it does not. Like most people, I do not like investing a lot of time preparing a meal that does not taste good and leaves me unsatisfied.
But I like soup.
It does not much simpler than opening the can, finding a clean pot, turning on th e stove and waiting until it is warm enough to eat. Low risk, high reward and ever so predictable - who could ask for anything more.
I also like metaphors. As a project manager and software implementation consult ant, I have found the best ways to communicate with clients, project team members and busines s partners is through metaphors. Taking a new or a co mplex idea and relating it something that people can identify with , increases understanding and reduces the fear of the unknown through familiarization. M etaphors make the complex simple. In addition, breaking down a complex process into a series of steps, like a recipe, provides an easy to follow guide that serve s as a repe atable process for solving business problems.
So that is what this book is: it is a series of step by step articles and essays (a.k.a. recipes) that outline the steps involved in resolving a variety of situations that you may encounter on your project. Some of the recipes involve metaphors, others do not.
If you are looking for a complicated step by step approach for planning and managing projects containing charts, graphs, pictures and complex diagrams, then this is not the book for you. If you are looking for an easy to read book that provides tips and techniques in easily relatable, digestible nuggets ; then you are in the right place.
S o, come on in and sit down. S oup' s on!
Table of Contents
Introduction
Table of Contents
Soup: The Perfect Metaphor for Project Management
Recipe #1: Seven Steps to Assessing any Business Situation
Recipe #2: Establishing a Project Blue Print
Recipe #3: How to Develop a Plan to Identify Quick Wins
Recipe #4: Defining a Project Success
Recipe #5: Six Best Practices for Software Implementation Success
Recipe #6: Quick Tips for Communicating with Executives
Recipe #7: Creating Successful Bidder’s Conferences
Recipe #8: Determining End User Skill Sets
Recipe #9: A Framework for Software Customization Decisions
Recipe #10: Preparing for the ‘Marathon Project’
Recipe #11: Risk, Volatility and the Inflection Point
Recipe #12: Four Steps for Building Stakeholder Consensus
References
About the Author