How to Run Successful High-Tech Project-Based Organizations - Hardcover

Fergus O'Connell

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1580530109 ISBN 13: 9781580530101

Publisher: Artech House Publishers, 1999

Synopsis

This volume offers practical steps to creating a Structured Project Management (SPM) system in your organization. Based on the ten steps in Fergus O'Connell's previous book, How To Run Successful Projects, it expands on that concept to offer a solution to keeping today's high-tech companies competitive, on budget, and on schedule. Using SPM company-wide, you create a system wherein unforeseen challenges or problems occur on a localized level where they do not affect the system-wide enterprise. All project tasks are described as being both unique and part of a larger scheme, giving definition and a sense of importance to individuals, departments, divisions, and an entire company. From the individual on up, smaller projects are completed and compiled, layer upon layer, until your whole organization is producing at peak levels.

About this title

From the Author

In 1992 I started a one-man training and consulting company - ETP, or "Eyes on the Prize." Happily the venture (project!) worked out, and today ETP is a thriving company whose offices in a number of locations around the globe have undertaken project management training or consulting assignments on six continents.

The project management we teach and consult in is less about PERT (program evaluation and review technique) charts and Gantt charts and more about behavior change. Everything we do has one aim in mind: to cause the mud to stick, as somebody once elegantly described it. To make people do the things we teach - not just to understand them or think they're neat but to do them and continue to do them, particularly when the environment within which they operate is constantly trying to tempt them to tray from the true path.

We have had some spectacular successes - people saying that we changed their lives. Almost without exception, we got tremendously positive feedback to the ideas we passed on. Deep down, however, we wondered: Too many people were going back to organizations where - for want of a better expression - the "system" overwhelmed them. Back in their organizations - for whatever reason - nothing much changed, and whatever good intentions they had when they left our training course evaporated, more or less quickly, once they got back in the trenches.

Sure, the people needed to change, but even more than the people, their organizations needed to change. That is what this book is about. It takes the tools of structured project management and turns them on organizations.

About the Author

Fergus O'Connell graduated with a First in Mathematical Physics from University College Cork. With 20 years in the computer industry, 17 spent in project management roles, Fergus O'Connell became a best-selling author with his book How to Run Successful Projects. Since founding his own management consulting company in 1992, he has taught thousands of managers in his unique seminars and worked with major corporations around the world.

Edition details

• Publisher: Artech House Publishers
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1580530109
• ISBN 13: 9781580530101
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 316