HBR's Guide to Project Management

Having trouble viewing this email? Click here to see it in a web browser. Manage Projects More Effectively Guide to Project Management Here's everything you'll need to plan and execute a project—including advice and tools for setting smart goals, collaborating with stakeholders and team members to achieve them, and learning from process mistakes. You've been asked to lead a project. You appreciate the vote of confidence, but are you panicking because you haven't a clue where to begin? Do you worry that stakeholders will tug you in a million directions, making it impossible to set clear goals, let alone deliver the goods on time and on budget? How will you know when to stick to your original plan and when to be flexible? And how will you keep all your team members excited about this project—when they have so many other pressures on them? This guide will give you the confidence and tools you need to manage projects effectively. You'll learn how to: Choose the right team and keep it humming. Avoid "scope creep." Make heads or tails of Gantt and PERT charts. Zero in on critical tasks and map out a logical sequence. Get disruptive team members on board. Keep stakeholders in the loop. Gauge your project's success. Capture—and use—lessons learned. This collection is yours for only $19.95.* Product #10725 • PDF or Softbound Collection ORDER NOW Guide to Project Management includes these 21 articles: The Four Phases of Project Management The Cast of Characters: Who's Who in Project Management A Written Charter: Your Marching Orders Dealing with a Project's "Fuzzy Front End" Performing a Project Premortem Will Project Creep Cost You—or Create Value? Setting Priorities Before Starting Your Project Boost Productivity with Time-Boxing Scheduling the Work: Put the Horse Before the Cart A Rush to Failure? Getting Your Project Off on the Right Foot The Discipline of Teams Effective Project Meetings The Adaptive Approach to Project Management Why Good Projects Fail Anyway Monitoring and Controlling Your Project Managing People Problems on Your Team The Tools of Cooperation and Change Don't Throw Good Money (or Time) After Bad Closing Out Your Project: Handing Off Authority and Control Closing Out Your Project: Capturing Lessons Learned To order by phone, call us toll-free at 800-668-6780 and mention referral code 00994. Outside the U.S. and Canada, call +1-617-783-7450. * Purchasers are responsible for all shipping charges, duties, taxes, brokerage fees, and/or import fees imposed by the country of import. Please check with your customs office for details. If you do not wish to receive special offer email messages from Harvard Business Review, click here. If you do not wish to receive any email messages from Harvard Business Review, click here. Copyright © 2011 Harvard Business School Publishing, an affiliate of Harvard Business School. All rights reserved. Harvard Business Publishing | 60 Harvard Way | Boston, MA 02163 Customer Service: 800-545-7685 (+1-617-783-7600 outside the U.S. and Canada)