May 2015
Beginner
1244 pages
13h 49m
English
book
HBR 20-Minute Manager Boxed Set (10 Books) (HBR 20-Minute Manager Series)
by Harvard Business Review
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Planning Your
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Planning Your Project
T
he fi rst phase in managing a project is to
make an overall plan. Usually this involves
just fi ve steps:
1. Defi ne the real problem.
2. Identify your stakeholders.
3. Set the project’s goals.
4. Prepare for trade-offs.
5. Spell out the tasks.
We’ll look at each one in turn.
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Managing Projects
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Defi ne the real problem
Too often, project managers leap to the solution ...
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