Book description
Fergus O’Connell has over twenty years experience in project management. He has worked with companies such as CPT, ICL and Retix, before founding ETP in 1992. ETP is Ireland’s largest project management company specializing in knowledge and high-tech industries. Fergus’s experience covers projects world wide and he has taught project management on three continents.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Contents
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- List of figures
- About the author
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 – Say ‘We’ll take a look at it’
- Chapter 2 – Figuring out the goal of your project
- Chapter 3 – Figuring out what work has to be done
- Chapter 4 – Getting people to do the work
- Chapter 5 – Making the plan bulletproof
- Chapter 6 – Selling the plan
- Chapter 7 – What to do if the project is impossible
- Chapter 8 – Executing the plan
- Chapter 9 – Assessing a project in five minutes
- Chapter 10 – Scoping and planning a project in a day
- Chapter 11 – An actual scoping and planning session
- Chapter 12 – Why projects fail
- Appendix – Figures 11.1 and 11.2
- Bibliography
- Index
- Marketing Advertisement
- Imprint
Product information
- Title: Fast Projects
- Author(s):
- Release date: November 2013
- Publisher(s): Pearson Education
- ISBN: 9780273747468
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