- Paperback: 496 pages
- Publisher: Financial Times/ Prentice Hall; 2 edition (24 Feb 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 027364436X
- ISBN-13: 978-0273644361
- Product Dimensions: 24.2 x 17.1 x 2.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 744,164 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Robert Buttrick's book is an invaluable, lucid and practical guide to a crucial area of management, which has been crying out for the treatment it receives in these pages"
Robert Heller
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Projects are an important strategic management tool and a way of life for every business person. But how do you get started and ensure a successful outcome? This book takes the reader step by step through project management, acting as a companion and guide to ultimate project success. The book provides:
- a practical, hands-on, diagnostic guide
- offers help at every stage from building a team right up to reaping the rewards
- new edition will be redesigned both inside and out
- includes a CD for interactive work
- shows how to measure critical factors & diagnose the difficulties of implementation
- demonstrates how to analyse both the project as a single entity and the complexities of simultaneous projects
- shows how to assess resource strategy and management, analyse one's understanding of the business culture and improve project tracking
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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
The Interactive Project Workout a real world book,
By DavidWinders@globalspirit.net (Basingstoke Hampshire) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Project Workout : A Toolkit for Reaping the Rewards of All Your Business Projects [Second Edition with CD] (Paperback)
One of the striking qualities of this book is its presentation, it is one of those nice books to have. From its tactile pleasing cover to its easy to read lay out with clear headings and quality diagrams it leaps out from the book shelf with a buy me attitude. So many good business books fail with tiny myopic small print and "ants with inky legs" diagrams; this is one scores high in presentation.So many project management textbooks focus on project management technical skills rather than conceptually what needs to be done. You can do the maths to forward and back compute PERT charts to your hearts content but equally fail to deliver any business benefits. However clever you are with PMW, MS Project or any other priesthood tool failure to deliver value from your project is the easiest thing to do as the IS industry fails to learn year in year out. This book tackles this head on as Robert comes across as a commercial chap with clear focus of why we do projects which is to deliver benefits. He does not get hung up on project management for its own sake; as so many people do as they try to self justify their professional ego's using and mystic terms and language. This book is about what project management is about not the technical project management skills and therefore it appeals to business people who what to run business changes within a project framework. It is useful for those who want to understand what project management is about, the controls and deliverables, it really achieves this well and gets to the point quickly and effectively. This book is real world project management tool where the approach makes sense and does not put off the "non specialist project person" with bureaucracy and impractical ideology. So many firms loose out on not using project management because the gantt chart jockey's bore them to tears. If you are thinking of getting in a project management methodology to run a big change initiative and paying consultants a fortune to re invent the wheel then this book will save you thousands. It explains a structured approach in perhaps the best way I have seen and gets to the point much faster than 100's of pages of Prince2 manuals. So much literature looks at the minutia of project management activity promoting forms and charts and lets the reader become immersed in material that eventually makes him forget what its all about "delivering the benefits" . A lot of IS so called professional project managers could learn a lot form this book, let Robert get you away from low level gantt charts and back into the real world of commercial delivery. The CD ROM is useful although the work outs never seem to fit exactly to what you want to do and although nice I am not 100% sure that its that helpful and if it puts the price of the book up that is a shame. The only criticism is that it fails to tackle pre project work well and is not really a book on change management. I found the programme management section much weaker than the project section although this is common as project management is the easier discipline. This is definitely a book on the practical theory of project management rather than a book on change management, if your looking for that I would buy something else. This is not a cheap book but then it is well put together. If trying to decided which book on project management to buy then you can't go wrong with this one. I liked it and it takes a prime position on my shelf.
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4.8 out of 5 stars (5 customer reviews) 8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
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Superb book for PM processes and PMO,
By Mike Tarrani "www.tarrani.com" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Project Workout : A Toolkit for Reaping the Rewards of All Your Business Projects [Second Edition with CD] (Paperback)
This is one of the few books that covers project management as a coherent process while providing detailed guidance for enterprise-level program management.The project management processes covered are strikingly similar to PRINCE2 (the UK PM standard), especially with respect to organizational structure. If your approach is aligned to the US standard set forth in the Project Management Institute's PMBOK you discover that you'll have to compensate for gaps between the author's approach and the PMBOK. An example of where such a gap exists is in the chapter on project accounting, where status reporting is not consistent with earned value, which the PMBOK now covers. There are other such gaps in the way process flows are presented. However, this book contains so much valuable information and such a strong approach to managing projects at the enterprise level that the effort to fill in the gaps will be repaid many times over with an approach to project and program management that is absent in the PMBOK. What distinguishes this book and why I think it's invaluable include: I particularly like the staged approach to managing projects, which is consistent with PRINCE2, and the use of 'quality gates' as stage entry and exit criteria. I also like the way the book steps you through how to properly set up and manage a single project, then a collection of projects, and finally a portfolio of projects. It is here that the PMO concept starts to become clear and structured, and where the book has the most value to organizations that are struggling with establishing a PMO. The CD ROM that comes with the book is, in my opinion, more of a novelty than a collection of useful artifacts. The documents are in Acrobat format, making them nearly useless you have the full version of that program, and cumbersome to modify if you do. I would have preferred documents in rich text format, which can be edited by any word processor (MS Word, StarOffice, etc.). However, the forms and checklists are also provided in the book and can be easily replicated. If your goal is to establish and manage a PMO this book is worth its weight in gold. It's also valuable to project managers who are seeking advanced, proven techniques for single project management. If you fit either of these criteria I also recommend TOTAL PROJECT CONTROL by Stephen A. Devaux, which contains advanced PM and PMO techniques that complement this book nicely. 5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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A real gem from Buttrick - the project management guru,
By Carol McEvoy - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Project Workout : A Toolkit for Reaping the Rewards of All Your Business Projects [Second Edition with CD] (Paperback)
Having followed Buttrick's guidelines on project management for many years I know they work, even in the most complex and rapidly changing business environments. The most innovative chapters, though, are those on programme management. No other reference deals with this difficult subject so well. Buttrick explains the different types of programmes and how each need to be managed. This book is a `must have' for anyone trying to ensure that their projects meet their company's objectives.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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Practical ideas and processes - not just concepts,
By xThinker - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Project Workout : A Toolkit for Reaping the Rewards of All Your Business Projects [Second Edition with CD] (Paperback)
I have spent the last year looking for good project management books. I have found several good ones; however, this one surpasses them all for usability and practicality. If your projects are not overly technical, this could be the only PM book you need. (If your projects have a significant technical component, take a look at Visualizing Project Management for its description of the technical part of projects. But still look at this one for its practicality and directness.)
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