Rescue the Problem Project: A Complete Guide to Identifying, Preventing, and Recovering from Project Failure

Todd Williams (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

304 Seiten

2011 | Special ed.
Amacom (Verlag)
978-0-8144-1682-2 (ISBN)

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Provides project managers, executives, and customers with the answers they require. This book reveals a start-to-finish process that includes: techniques for identifying the root causes of the trouble; steps for putting projects back on track audit the project, analyze the data, negotiate the solution, and execute the new plan; and, more.

When budgets are dwindling, deadlines passing, and tempers flaring, the usual response is to browbeat the project team and point fingers of blame. Not helpful. For these situations, what is needed is an objective process for accurately assessing what is wrong and a clear plan of action for fixing the problem. Rescue the Problem Project provides project managers, executives, and customers with the answers they require. Turnaround specialist Todd Williams has worked with dozens of companies in multiple industries resuscitating failing projects. In this new book, he reveals an in-depth, start-to-finish process that includes:

Techniques for identifying the root causes of the troubleSteps for putting projects back on track audit the project, analyze the data, negotiate the solution, and execute the new planNearly 70 real-world examples of what works, what doesn’t, and whyGuidelines for avoiding problems in subsequent projects
Many books explain how to run a project, but only this one shows how to bring it back from the brink of disaster. And with 65% of projects failing to meet goals and 25% cancelled outright, that’s essential information!

Todd C. Williams, PMP (Camas, WA) is a senior project audit and recovery specialist with over 25 years of international experience.

CONTENTS

Acknowledgements xv

Foreword by Tom Kendrick xvii

Introduction xix

PART I Understanding the Process and Realizing

a Problem Exists 1

1 The Basics of the Recovery Process 3

2 Management’s Responsibility in

PART II Auditing the Project: Understanding the Issues 31

3 Assessing the Human Role in Project Failure 33

4 Auditing Scope on a Red Project 49

5 Determining Timeline Constraints 63

6 Examining Technology’s Effect on the Project 73

PART III Analyzing the Data: Planning for Project Recovery 81

7 Determining and Initiating Remedial Action 83

8 Building an Extended Project Team 93

9 Considering Options for Realigning Technology 109

10 Assessing How Methodology Affects the Project 119

11 How Agile Methodology Can Assist in a Recovery 131

12 How Critical Chain Methodology Can Assist in a Recovery 157

13 Comparing the Relative Value of Methodologies

PART IV Negotiating a Solution: Proposing Workable Resolutions 183

14 Proposing and Getting Agreement on a Recovery Plan 185

15 Dealing with “Unprojects” 205

PART V Executing the New Plan: Implementing the Solutions 213

16 Implementing Corrective Actions and Executing the Plan 215

PART VI Doing It Right the First Time: Avoiding Problems

That Lead to Red Projects 221

17 Properly Defining a Project’s Initiation 223

18 Assembling the Right Team 231

19 Properly Dealing with Risk 239

20 Implementing Effective Change Management 253

Appendix: Files on the Rescue the Problem Project Web Site 263

Endnotes 265

Recommended Reading 267

Index 269

Erscheint lt. Verlag	16.5.2011
Sprache	englisch
Maße	62 x 93 mm
Gewicht	1 g
Themenwelt	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Projektmanagement
Themenwelt	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management
ISBN-10	0-8144-1682-9 / 0814416829
ISBN-13	978-0-8144-1682-2 / 9780814416822
Zustand	Neuware