Book description
You CAN Turn Around A Failing Project!Poor project results are all too common and result in dissatisfied customers, users, and project staff. With countless people, goals, objectives, expectations, budgets, schedules, deliverables, and deadlines to consider, it can be difficult to keep projects in focus and on track. How to Save a Failing Project: Chaos to Control arms project managers with the tools and techniques needed to address these project challenges. The authors provide guidance to develop a project plan, establish a schedule for execution, identify project tracking mechanisms, and implement turnaround methods to avoid failure and regain control.
With this valuable resource you will be able to:
• Identify key factors leading to failure
• Learn how to recover a failing project and minimize future risk
• Better analyze your project by defining proper business objectives and goals
• Gain insight on industry best practices for planning
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- About the Authors
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
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Part I - I Project Awareness: How to Recognize a Failing Project
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Chapter 1 - Why Projects Fail
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Key Factors Leading to Failure
- Poorly Defined Requirements
- Scope Creep
- Stakeholders Have Different Expectations
- Stakeholders Have Unrealistic Expectations
- There Is No Real Need or Demand for the Product
- There Is a Lack of User Involvement in the Project
- Change Management Is Lacking or Ineffective
- Poor Quality Control
- Problems Are Caught Too Late
- The End Results of a Failed Project
- In Brief
- Suggested Reading and Resources
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Key Factors Leading to Failure
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Chapter 2 - Is Your Project Out of Control?
- Missed Milestones or Deliverables
- Lack of Product Quality
- Different Opinions of the Project’s Purpose
- Failure to Estimate Costs and Schedule in Advance
- Dependence on Heroes
- Customer Disapproval
- Employee Frustration
- Other Subtle Signs of Trouble
- Regaining Control
- In Brief
- Suggested Reading and Resources
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Chapter 1 - Why Projects Fail
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Part II - Project Planning: How to Recover a Failing Project
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Chapter 3 - Analyzing Your Project
- Assessing Why Your Project Is Failing
- Defining the Business Objectives the Project Should Meet
- Defining the Functional Goals the Project Should Satisfy
- Deciding Whether To Move Forward
- Encouraging Management’s Positive Involvement
- Performing Process and Procedure Development
- Changing the Culture of a Project
- In Brief
- Suggested Reading and Resources
- Chapter 4 - Why Create a Plan?
- Chapter 5 - Creating the Plan
- Chapter 6 - Building a Team
- Chapter 7 - Identifying the Products
- Chapter 8 - Identifying the Work
- Chapter 9 - Establishing a Schedule
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Chapter 3 - Analyzing Your Project
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Part III - Project Execution: How to Minimize the Risk of Future Failure
- Chapter 10 - Executing the Plan
- Chapter 11 - Managing External and Internal Expectations
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Chapter 12 - Managing Scope
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Defining the Requirements
- Writing a Vision and Scope Document
- Establishing a Joint Team
- Using Better Requirements Elicitation Methods and Techniques
- Ensuring That Every Requirement Meets the Criteria for a Good Requirement
- Identifying the Rationale for Each Requirement
- Using an Automated Requirements Tool
- Ensuring That Each Requirement Is Testable
- Employing Measurement in Requirements Work
- Evolving the Real Requirements
- Prioritizing Requirements
- Tracing Requirements
- Managing Requirements
- In Brief
- Suggested Reading and Resources
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Defining the Requirements
- Chapter 13 - Managing Quality
- Chapter 14 - Optimizing the Plan
- Final Thoughts: A Recommended Approach for Project Success
- Acronyms
- Glossary
- References
- Index
Product information
- Title: How to Save a Failing Project
- Author(s):
- Release date: May 2009
- Publisher(s): Berrett-Koehler Publishers
- ISBN: 9781567263404
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