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Proven Techniques for Keeping Simultaneous Projects On Courseand Ensuring Their Successful Completion
As a manager today you must be a master juggler, responsible for keeping several balls in the air even as new balls are randomly tossed in from all sides. Managing Multiple Projects provides the organizational skills and management strategies you need to tackle multiple projects, roles, and responsibilitiesand get the results you want. Turn to this latest addition to McGraw-Hill's skills-based Briefcase Books series for hands-on techniques you can use to:
- Develop a reliable, repeatable system for addressing competing demands
- Work with others to effectively allocate workloads
- Handle the emotional demandsboth for yourself and othersof project overload
While numerous books have addressed specific project management issues, fewuntil nowhave contained proactive strategies for consistently achieving multiple objectives. Managing Multiple Projects draws on skills from time management, task completion, organizational psychology, and more to provide a proven system for easily managing concurrent projects, and guiding each to its successful completion.
Briefcase Books, written specifically for today's busy manager, feature eye-catching icons, checklists, and sidebars to guide managers step-by-step through everyday workplace situations. Look for these innovative design features to help you navigate through each page:
- Clear definitions of important terms, concepts, and jargon
- Tips and tactics for facilitating multiple projects
- Proven how-to hints for addressing specific situations
- Practical advice for minimizing unexpected project errors
- Warning signs that new activities and initiatives are going awry
- Case studies of effective multiple project management in action
- Procedures, techniques, and tactics for implementing this book's ideas
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It's written in a friendly style, with a few simple exercises to help you out if you're in a crunch, and reviews of the key points at the end of each chapter. It also has little examples and case studies where you can see how the ideas work.
Overall, a very practical book for dealing with all aspects of project management, starting with organising yourself an your own time, and moving on to consider ways to better organise and manage your team.
Highly recommended!
Chapter 2, "The Cheeseburger Paradox", really spells out the problem. "It's great to aim high, to attempt to do more and do it better. But unless you can do that reliably, unless your customers can depend on you, you've got problems... the high-value-added operation cannot afford to deliver inferior service." The rest of the chapter - and the book - offers tools and techniques for achieving reliability.
This book really helped me see where the systems I use are letting me down and how I can change that. I've read books on time management. I've struggled to make Microsoft Projects work for me, but nothing's clicked like the advice I've read in "Managing Multiple Projects". Anyone who's tried other books on time and project management and felt unsatisfied ought to give this book a try. The authors' combination of systems engineering perspective and psychological insight into stress and group process sets this book apart. I happen to think it is groundbreaking work.
The title seems to suggest that this book is about project management, but since the authors define "project" as "a commitment of time and resources aimed at a specific outcome," the book is really much more comprehensive.
It's about managing lots of things effectively as the same time.
So, it's about managing time, formalizing processes, dealing with emotional demands, avoiding the dangers of setting priorities, compartmentalizing, tracking projects, and making changes in systems.
Just try to find another book that covers all those areas! This book covers them - and the tone and style make it easy to read. (It's interesting what can happen when a systems engineer and a psychologist team up to write a book!)
How much time do you lose trying to juggle tasks and the people responsible for them? How much is that time worth? It's probably far more than the price of this book. Do you want to manage more effectively and more easily? If so and you're serious about it, this book would be a great investment.
The Cheeseburger Paradox opened my eyes to our quality problems from a completely new perspective. The chapters on time management and scheduling are fresh and present new ideas that I can put to work immeadiately.
My other project management books sit on a shelf collecting dust, being either too detailed or esoteric for day-to-day use. This is one that I carry around with me, loving marked with post-it notes, so I can show people, "See, this is what I mean."
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