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Project management: How to increase its success rate – Implementation Guide
A different approach to project management. Embracing the lessons from the great management thinkers of the past and entwining this with the soft people skills, personal development requirements, and winning work habits that the project team needs to master. This guide provides practical tips to give the project team a better chance of success, along…
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I have always been searching for the Holy Grail, ‘How to get a project successfully implemented’, that affects the staff in the organisation. Projects with a very wide-ranging impact are prone to failure if the project team does not consider the numerous factors that influence the implementation of change.
Too many ‘Project Management’ training materials have no reference at all to the ‘paradigm shifters of management.’ The great thinkers of the past who blazed a trail for us all. Podcasts on project management are no better offering pithy off-the-cuff advice.
Already, Gen Z is largely unaware of Peter Drucker, the father of management, and the project management guru John Kotter. His book is still the seminal work on ‘leading change’.
The content of this implementation guide includes
1….. An observation. 4
2….. The four distinct project types. 5
3….. The common failures with projects. 6
4….. Comparing different project management approaches. 10
5….. The suggested foundation stones for projects. 11
6….. Selling the project in the first place. 20
7….. Establishing a project team.. 23
8….. Upskilling the project team.. 34
9….. Stage 1 of the project 43
10…… Stage 2 of the project (currently under development)
11…… Stage 3 of the project (currently under development)
12…… Stage 4 of the project (currently under development)
13…… Other implementation guides.
14…… Writer’s biography.
15…… Appendix 1: Project team checklists and questionnaires. 51
16…… Appendix 2: Job description for the project team leader 57
17…… Appendix 3: Project set-up checklist 59
18…… Appendix 4: Template for reporting progress via a PowerPoint 61
19…… Appendix 5: ‘Post-it’ sticker re-engineer your frequent routines. 62
20…… Appendix 6: Personal development tips. 66
21…… Appendix 7: Winning working habits. 74
22…… Appendix 8: Ensuring a work-life balance for the project team. 84
23…… Appendix 9: Propel your career with “killer” presentations. 86
24…… Appendix 10 : Interviewing techniques when doing research. 88
25 …Appendix 11: The five quality assurance checks for all project output 92
26…… Appendix 12: Guidelines for running workshops. 95
27…… Appendix 13: Required reading for all Project team members. 98