Abstract

This book will empower experienced project managers and their business counterparts to understand and manage the risks of challenging business change projects. It does this by focusing on setting projects up for success and emphasising the importance of understanding the business context. It shows project managers and owners how to guide difficult projects home when mere excellence of technique or blind adherence to procedures would leave them at sea.
This book will empower experienced project managers and their business counterparts to understand and manage the risks of challenging business change projects. It does this by focusing on setting projects up for success and emphasising the importance of understanding the business context. Providing principles and guidance that can be adapted and applied to different situations, it will show project managers and owners how to guide difficult projects home when mere excellence of technique or blind adherence to procedures would leave them at sea.
...well structured and provides a solid guide to handling even the most challenging of projects.
A P Sutcliffe
An excellent resource for practitioners reflecting good practice in managing projects […]. This much needed and well thought out book should enable managers and team members to improve their track record in delivering large business change projects.
Professor Darren Dalcher
This book will get experienced project managers to the next level, showing them what they need to do to build a platform for success, then keep the project on track. If you’ve mastered the basics, got some battle scars, and want to succeed with bigger challenges, this is the book for you.
Charles Change
Managing projects, particularly ICT projects is a subjective, hands-on process. Who better to write a book on this important topic than two guys who have seen the inside of many successful and some not so successful projects. They do not attempt to document a prescription for success, but offer clear guidelines for decision making at critical times. Readers will gain much by reading this book before, during and after a project journey.
W G (Bill) Hewett
Jeff Morgan and Chris Dale have extensive experience of managing, researching and analysing large and difficult projects, having worked for consultancy firms and an organisation where projects of over $500M in value were common. Jeff was involved in projects such as the London Stock Exchange ‘Big Bang’. Chris is a founder member of the Centre for Software Reliability, a group specialising in the measurement of software-based systems.