Adaptive Project Management: Leading Complex and Uncertain Projects - Softcover

Silber, Andy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 163492150X ISBN 13: 9781634921503

Publisher: Booklocker.com, 2017

Synopsis

Does Adaptive Project Management make sense for you?

Are you using waterfall/PMP project management and...
*               your stakeholders expect innovation, a predictable schedule, and a fixed budget without padding?
*               it's impossible to build a Work Breakdown Structure because your team doesn't understand the solution yet, much less the tasks needed to complete the solution?
*               you're using new technology making it impossible to estimate durations accurately?

Are you using agile project management and...
*               your project includes complex dependencies (e.g. create a schematic, layout board, build PCB and buy components, build PCBA, load firmware, test)?
*               some of your tasks have long-lead times?
*               it takes weeks or longer to complete and test a build?

Are you trying to get a project completed without any project management and...
*               priorities aren't clear, so the wrong tasks are being worked on?
*               your delivery dates are just guesses and things are always late?
*               when your projects are complete the end users say "That's not what I need or want"?

If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, then Adaptive Project Management is for you.

In Adaptive Project Management, the project manager does just enough planning to be confident that the team is working on the correct tasks. Those tasks might be risk reduction, on the critical path, or building prototypes to better understand what the end-user wants. The goal is to be fostering an environment of innovation, constantly reducing risk and uncertainty as you move through a project, and always updating the plan as you increase your knowledge. This book explains how to succeed or fail fast for projects that are too uncertain to use waterfall project management and too complex to succeed with agile project management.

About this title

About the Author

Andy Silber has twenty years of experience as an engineer and project manager, delivering innovative hardware products, including medical devices, consumer electronics, and industrial equipment. He has a PhD in astrophysics from MIT, and a Project Management Professional (PMP) certification. He lives in Seattle with his wife and son.

From the Back Cover

Adaptive Project Management: when there's too much uncertainty forstandard/waterfall project management and too much complexity for agile projectmanagement. The tools taught in this book will help you manage risk anduncertainty, communicate effectively with your stakeholders, and successfullylead projects (even when success means failing fast). The author has over 20years experience developing medical devices, industrial equipment, and consumerelectronics and has seen the difference between success and failure is oftenhaving a project management paradigm that fits the problem being solved. Thisbook is designed for project managers, individual contributors, and executiveswho have found too many projects go off the rails because uncertainty andcomplexity were poorly managed.

Edition details

• Publisher: Booklocker.com
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 163492150X
• ISBN 13: 9781634921503
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 110