Strategic Project Management Made Simple, 2nd Edition

Introduction

Projects are engines of progress. They are responsible for the vast majority of the forward progress and positive change we see in the world. Projects remain the best mechanism we have to turn our visions, goals, and hopes for the future into reality. And the men and women who lead them are the unsung superheroes of our time.

But delivering successful projects has become much tougher in the volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) environment in which we live. The problems we need to solve are more complex, the risks are higher, and the pressure on us to deliver solutions intensifies.

These factors impose new demands on the already tough job leaders face in guiding their organizations and project teams.

But on the plus side, the opportunities to deliver innovative projects that make a real difference are far greater as well.

These dynamics make it incumbent for all project leaders and teams to continually update their strategic skills and learn better approaches in order to handle challenges of the kind they have not faced before. That's the reason I wrote this book.

Turn Strategy into Action

Strategic Project Management Made Simple offers you a logical step-by-step approach and a common language to think more strategically, plan more effectively, and implement more smoothly in order to get better results.

The methodology in this book offers a systems thinking approach that brings together core principles from two methodologies: Strategic Planning and ...