The Rational Project Manager
Chapter One
The missing pieces
of the project
management puzzle
Picture the members of a project team exchanging comments during
the lunch break of a recent management course. They are fuming
over their latest debacle: a project to select and tee up a location to produce
hi-tech vehicle components for a major partner. After eight months
of scouting the available workforce, persuading home-office employees
to relocate, estimating labor costs, submitting proposals to the local zoning
board, and detailed planning for the construction and start-up of the
new site, the project was abruptly terminated. Here's why: A senior
manager at the partner organization suddenly decided, for reasons unknown
to the project team, that the location just wouldn't do.
PROJECT MANAGEMENT AS THE
NEW IMPERATIVE
Why wasn't the senior manager involved in the selection process from
the beginning? What other work didn't get done while the organization
devoted significant resources to the project? And what was the
true cost of the eight months of wasted work?
The costs of such failed projects a ... read full excerpt from The Rational Project Manager: A Thinking Team's Guide to Getting Work Done ebook
