101 Project Management Problems and How to Solve Them: Practical Advice for Handling Real-World Project Challenges - Softcover

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Tom Kendrick the former Program Director for the project management curriculum at UC Berkeley Extension, and lives in the Bay area near San Francisco, California. He is a past award recipient of the Project Management Institute (PMI) David I. Cleland Project Management Literature Award for "Identifying and Managing Project Risk: Essential Tools for Failure-Proofing Your Project" (now in it's fourth edition).  Tom is also a certified PMP and serves as a volunteer for both the PMI Silicon Valley Chapter and PMI.org.

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When youre responsible for a project, large or small, things will go wrong. Even if youre a skilled project veteran with a solid plan, things will happen that you least expect. And if youre less experienced, there are a startling number of ways that your project can get into trouble. Despite your best efforts and intentions, there are plenty of problems and challenges that canand often willarise at any step and from any angle to derail your teams hard work.

What you needright awayare field-proven fixes, practical answers to urgent questions, and simple strategies for navigating around the unforeseen obstacles youll encounter throughout your project.

You can put that dry, unhelpful tome of academic theory back on the shelf.101 Project Management Problems and How to Solve Them shows you how to:

Keep your project on track despite unavoidable interruptions

Prevent unreliable outside collaborators from jeopardizing the entire project

Manage project teams who have little or no project management experience

Make up for lost time without cutting corners

Succeed in the face of threatened budget cuts

Youll find out how to ensure good project management practices during organizational process changes . . . successfully deal with contributor hostility or reluctance during start-up . . . handle undependable contributors . . . bring new people up to speed on already-started projects . . . respond to increased demands from management after the project baseline has been set . . . work with limited resources . . . minimize potential late project testing failures and deliverable evaluation issues . . . manage a project through reorganizations, market shifts, and other external changes . . . and much more.

Arming you with immediately usable fixes to a wide range of real-world project challenges, this one-of-a-kind, on-the-job troubleshooter will help you deal effectively with whatever unexpected problems come your wayand get your project on track for success.

TOM KENDRICK is a project management consultant and former project management executive for Hewlett-Packard and for Visa Inc. He is the author ofIdentifying and Managing Project Risk, Results Without Authority, and The Project Management Tool Kit.