Project Workout: A Toolkit for Reaping the Rewards from all your Business Projects (Paperback)

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

Put yourself and your business through the Project Workout to direct and manage projects that will deliver results, drive change and improve the health of your business.

Supported by the Project Workout Live online resource, The Project Workout shows you how to:

• Measure critical success factors in any project
• Diagnose and address any potential difficulties of implementation
• Master a staged framework for managing a successful project
• Develop the soft (interpersonal) and hard (structured management) skills of the project manager
• Analyze your project as a single entity, and also manage a portfolio of projects
• Assess your resource strategy and management effectively
• Improve your project tracking and delivery

This 3rd edition of the definitive book on business-led program and project management offers help at every stage, from building a project team right up to reaping the rewards of a timely and successful project. It will be a valuable companion for project managers and executives at any level, and a comprehensive resource for students of project management.

Projects are an important strategic management tool and a way of life for every businessperson. 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 Project Workout is an important book, taking a lead role in growing a new generation of professional project managers." Oded Cohen, The Goldratt Institute.

I am not a consultant. I am not an academic. I work within one of the most challenging and high growth industries in the world - telemedia. Everything in the book I have put into practice, the methods work and are proving resilient.I live with the results of my own advice every day!

The approaches I introduce you to in the book are applicable to any industry. I have used them in banks, construction, manufacturing, retail finance, industrials and in the public sector.

Crucially, this book not only tells you about managing or directing a single project but also how to deal with the hundreds of projects that many organisations have. That is NEW and very few companies can honestly say they can handle this. We can usually afford a few projects to fail but, as organisations, it's how we choose and manage our complete portfolio of projects that makes the difference.

In the Foreward to the book Robert Heller, one of the UK's leading business gurus says this "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. The companies and managers who best master the methods and maxims in this book will not only achieve their specific objectives, they will win the whole game."

I hope you enjoy the book and that it will indeed help you win "the whole game". --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.