Harvard Business Essentials Managing Projects Large and Small: The Fundamental Skills for Delivering on Budget and on Time

APPENDIX A

Useful Implementation Tools

This appendix contains a number of tools that can help you be more effective in forming a team, managing its progress, and handling typical problems. All the forms are adapted from Harvard ManageMentor, an online product of Harvard Business School Publishing.

1. Defining Your Project (figure A-1). This form will help you uncover the issues and parameters at the core of your project.
2. Work Breakdown Structure (figure A-2). Use this form to develop a Work Breakdown Structure to ensure that you do not overlook a significant part of a complex activity or underestimate the time and money needed to complete the work. Use multiple pages as needed.
3. Project Progress Report (figure A-3). Use this form to help assess ...