The seven essential tools for keeping projects on time and under budget You're executing risk management, leadership, and planning--all hallmarks of outstanding project management. And yet you're still having trouble keeping your projects on schedule. Creative Project Management adds two new elements to the mix: creativity and innovation. Internationally renowned project management consultants Michael Dobson and Ted Leemann combine traditional project management skills, such as risk evaluation, decision-making, and human dynamics, with outside-the-box thinking and business creativity. They provide seven new tools and approaches you can apply to any project. The methods discussed inside Creative Project Management show you how to: Realistically imagine the outcome of your decisions Work with--and around--the realities and constraints that affect your decisions Read and predict trends Manage the long- and short-term ramifications of your decisions Evaluate the impact of present and future technologies on your decisions Imagine new choices you didn't think you had Creative Project Management provides an invaluable new set of tools for any project management professional tasked with making difficult decisions in these uncertain times.
Author(s): Michael Dobson
Edition: 1
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Year: 2010
Language: English
Pages: 272
Contents......Page 4
Acknowledgments......Page 6
1 Why Do 70 Percent of Projects Fail?......Page 8
2 What We Know and What We Think......Page 30
3 The Most Dangerous Word Is a Premature Yes......Page 54
4 Good Enough, Barely Adequate, Failure......Page 82
5 When the Project Appears Impossible......Page 106
6 Knowns and Unknowns: The Risk Factor......Page 137
7 Project: Intelligence......Page 162
8 It Takes a Village to Wreck a Project......Page 178
9 Framing Change......Page 201
10 Salvaging Project Value......Page 220
Appendix A: Questions for the Creative Project Manager......Page 234
Appendix B: Cognitive Biases......Page 240
Bibliography......Page 254
A......Page 258
C......Page 259
E......Page 261
G......Page 262
K......Page 263
N......Page 264
P......Page 265
S......Page 266
T......Page 267
Z......Page 268