The Project Book: The Complete Guide to Consistently Delivering Great Projects
- 4h 42m
- Colin D. Ellis
- John Wiley & Sons (US)
- 2019
Deliver great projects every time
Projects are the lifeblood of organisations, but many projects fall short of expectations because of poor project management and/or poor project sponsorship. In The Project Book, author and 20-year project management and sponsorship veteran Colin D Ellis teaches you the skills and behaviours required to make your projects succeed, every time.
The best projects, whether they are delivered in an agile or waterfall way, are a result of the people that lead them and the environment they create. This fail-safe and comprehensive handbook shows you how to develop the mindset and communication skills to create projects that leave a legacy for you, your team and your organisation.
Project leaders and senior managers in all business and technical disciplines will benefit from the insightful guidance this book offers and better project outcomes will result. Split into two parts, individually addressing Project Leaders and Project Sponsors, this book guides large project facilitators to understand the importance of people over processes.
- become a project leader that people trust
- build a team culture of collaboration, agility and creativity
- upskill executives so that they’re catalysts for transformation
- develop the organisational discipline needed for successful projects
- create a mature environment for your projects to thrive
Engaging, informative and humorous, The Project Book will help project managers, project sponsors, scrum masters and product owners across all organisations to deliver successful projects in a way that customers will talk about for years.
About the Author
COLIN D ELLIS is a 20-year project management and sponsorship veteran, an award-winning international speaker, trainer and author who helps organisations and individuals around the world change the way they get things done and create cultures where great work thrives. www.colindellis.com
In this Book
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How to Use This Book
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Know Yourself
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Practise Empathy
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Be Yourself
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Stand for Something
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Determine Your Values
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Safeguard the Future
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Behave in the Right Way
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Give Your Mind a Break
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Adapt Your Style to Fit the Project
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Embrace the Next Generation
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Be Prepared
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Bring the Humour
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Make Gratitude Your Attitude
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Bouncebackability
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Lead a Remote Team
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Be an Intrepreneur
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Switch on Your Ears
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Create More Leaders
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Be Generous
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Say Sorry
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Set and Manage Expectations
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Manage Difficult Conversations
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Get Help
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Negotiate Effectively
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Tell Stories
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Manage Upwards
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Build and Care for the Team
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Develop a Vision
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Get Your Communication Right
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Collaborate for Success
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Make Time for Innovation
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Find the Right Space for Work
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Hire for Cultural Fit
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Start as You Mean to Go on
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Soundtrack to Your Success
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Keep Stakeholders Satisfied
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Gossip—The Culture Killer
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Keep it Simple
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Have Some Fun
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Run Meetings That Don’t Suck
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Celebrate Success
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Waterfall
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Agile
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No Plan, No Project
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Why This? Why Now?
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Scale for Success
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Estimating
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Manage Risk
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Deal with Issues
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Report Honestly
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Successes are the Best Lessons
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Measure Your Success
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Project Management Summary
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The Buck Stops with You
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Verify Priorities
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Share the Burden
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Say Thank You
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Build Trust
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Simple is Better
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Be Present
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Role Model What You Expect of others
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What’s the Problem and the Outcome?
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Negate the Negativity
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Hire and Pick Your Project Manager
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Be Ethical
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Make Quick (Not Hasty) Decisions
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Deal with Poor Performance
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Fail Quickly
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Culture is Key, But So is Strategy
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Get off to a Flyer
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Every Project Needs a Plan
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Innovation Needs Mindset and Time
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Methods Need to Be Understood
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Celebrate Good (and Bad) Times
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Outcomes Don’t Achieve Themselves
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Spot When it’s Going Wrong
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Project Sponsorship Summary
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Frequently Asked Questions
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References
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Reading List
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Soundtracks
