- Hardcover: 336 pages
- Publisher: Jossey Bass; 2nd Edition edition (6 Jan 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0787969664
- ISBN-13: 978-0787969660
- Product Dimensions: 22.8 x 19.6 x 2.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,586,868 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"The authors discuss some excellent organizational best practices and provide steps to achieve them." (Journal of Product Innovation Management; 1/1/2005)
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"Creating an Environment for Successful Projects became our bible for program leadership during PMO startup and continues to be a fundamental part of our thinking as we work to attain recognition as a truly project–based organization."
— Colonel Gary LaGassey, project office program manager for U.S. Air Force base in Aviano, Italy
— Colonel Gary LaGassey, project office program manager for U.S. Air Force base in Aviano, Italy
"The authors describe what others have achieved, and they tell how to get started. Yet, I find the book′s best content not in what or how, but in why. The book is rich with examples of why typical management behavior interferes with new product development. It clearly explains why upper managers are fearful, why corporate communications are so often poor, and yes, how to fix such things. The goal is to give project managers the freedom, training, and support to run rather autonomous and effective new product development programs."
— John D. Trudel, Journal of Management Consulting
"Crisp execution of projects is critical to the survival of today′s organizations. This practical book is filled with ideas and examples that will teach you how to build project management competence in your organization."
— Lewis E. Platt, former chairman, president, and CEO, Hewlett–Packard Company
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Unique book on an important topic,
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This review is from: Creating an Environment for Successful Projects: The Quest to Manage Project Management (Jossey-Bass Business & Management) (Hardcover)
This book, by 2 authors who are very knowledgeable and well respected, is unique. It is the only book that I have been able to find on the subject of project management for people who are managers of project managers. It contains enough (but not too much) material to describe what project management is---and what it is not. If upper managers read the book and pay attention to its contents by implementing some of its recommendations the lives of people managing projects in their organizations are likely to become more fulfilling, and project management will be of more value to the parent organization. The book also provides some insight into one of the US's more successful corporations, Hewlett-Packard, from which the authors draw many of their examples. A job well done!
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4.6 out of 5 stars (9 customer reviews) 22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
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Recommended for Managers of PMs and for PM Consultants,
By bnicodemus@rpm.com - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Creating an Environment for Successful Projects: The Quest to Manage Project Management (Jossey-Bass Business & Management) (Hardcover)
Most PM books focus on those things the PM is supposed to control: cost, schedule performance, quality. This book posits that there are many factors OUTSIDE of the project manager's control that prevent project success. The PM spends more time dealing with external issues than managing the project team. Managers of PMs must "create an environment for successful projects", by essentially identifying and eliminating environmental barriers to project success, so the PM can focus on managing the project and the project team. Intended for managers of a manager of PMs. Also a good book if you're a PM consultant or a manager of a project-oriented department containing several PMs and project teams. My only real criticism is that there's a fair bit of consultant-speak psychobabble in the book. In spite of that, there's enough solid info in the book to make it a worthwhile read. Recommended.
25 of 26 people found the following review helpful:
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Ample support for putting the book's key concepts to good us,
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This review is from: Creating an Environment for Successful Projects: The Quest to Manage Project Management (Jossey-Bass Business & Management) (Hardcover)
This book was reviewed in "The Journal of Product Innovation Management" May 1998, an international publication of the Product Development & Management Association (PDMA):A book which discusses how companies can effectively create a healthier and more nurturing environment for product development, based on companies like Hewlett-Packard, DuPont, Raychem and others. "As the title implies, this book is about managing project management, not about managing projects - an important concept... Its purpose is to get upper management to understand how and why to develop project management as an organizational competency... Relevant across industries from high tech to low, from product to service, and from consumer to industrial or business-to-business... Its key strengths are: 1) its comprehensive treatment of key issues from the role of strategic direction across the project portfolio to the need for cultivating project management learning; 2) its practical recommendations for change; and 3) its easy-to-read examples... The book is well organized with an overview chapter that includes a call to action and an overview of the remaining chapters. The next seven chapters go on to describe each of the elements of creating an environment for success projects. Laid out as pieces of a complete puzzle to signal their importance as a system" (Mark Deck, Pittiglio Rabin Todd & McGrath, May 1998) 16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
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Unique book on an important topic,
By jamesmc@lucent.com - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Creating an Environment for Successful Projects: The Quest to Manage Project Management (Jossey-Bass Business & Management) (Hardcover)
This book, by 2 authors who are very knowledgeable and well respected, is unique. It is the only book that I have been able to find on the subject of project management for people who are managers of project managers. It contains enough (but not too much) material to describe what project management is---and what it is not. If upper managers read the book and pay attention to its contents by implementing some of its recommendations the lives of people managing projects in their organizations are likely to become more fulfilling, and project management will be of more value to the parent organization. The book also provides some insight into one of the US's more successful corporations, Hewlett-Packard, from which the authors draw many of their examples. A job well done!
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