The Project Workout

The ultimate handbook of project and programme management

"an important book, taking a lead role in growing a new generation of professional project managers." Oded Cohen, The Goldratt Institute.

Put yourself and your business through the Project Workout – learn to direct and manage the programmes and projects that will deliver results, drive change and improve the health of your business.

Project Workout shows you how to:

• Identify and overcome common challenges

• Measure critical success factors in any project

• Master a staged framework for managing a project

• Set up your project and manage the team, the schedule, the finances and the risks

• Develop the soft (interpersonal) and hard (structured management) skills of the effective project manager

• Manage a portfolio of projects

• Use project and programme management to direct and deliver change

• Improve your project tracking and delivery

This book is supported by the Project Workout Live online resource (go to www.live.projectworkout.com),

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A STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE TO THE ART OF PROJECT AND PROGRAMME MANAGEMENT

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*Projects are an important strategic management tool and a way of life for every business person. But how do you get started and how do you ensure a successful outcome?*This 4th edition of the definitive book on business-led project management offers help at every stage, from building a project team right up to reaping the rewards of a timely and successful project. Project Workoutgives you practical, immediately usable methods for directing and managing complete portfolios of projects as well as individual projects.

Throughout the books is a collection of Workouts for you to use: exercises, problem posers, and techniques to help you put the book’s advice into practice straightaway. These are also provided on the enclosed CD-ROM, ready for you to print out and use with your team. The CD also contains handy templates including a Health Check, MS Project views and project logs, which can be downloaded to your desktop ready for use.

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Project Workoutis a valuable companion for project managers and executives at any level and a comprehensive resource for students of project management.

About the author

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Robert Buttrickhas worked in project and programme management in many of the world’s most turbulent industrial sectors,includingtelecommunicationsand system engineering. Recently he has been engaged on a £1bn program to implement health systems in the UK. Before taking up his corporate career in 1993, Robert was with PA Consulting Group, a management and technology consultancy. There, he specialized in business-led project management, advising clients such as Lloyds TSB Bank, National Rivers Authority, Property Services Agency, Avon Industrial Polymers, National Westminster Bank, and RHM.

Robert is a Master of Business Administration (Henley Management College), a Member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing, and a Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers. His main pastime is watercolor painting. His one, unknown, claim to fame is that he once stopped a column of Russian tanks dead in its tracks.

Robert can be contacted via his website, www.projectworkout.com.