BKPM Pocket Guide: for Project Managers (Release)

Put this guide next to your keyboard, in a convenient pocket, stain it with coffee rings or condensation from a cold drink, but keep it handy. This is your get out of jail free card; however, it isn’t magic. It’s a tool and you’ll need to learn how and when to use it.This pocket guide is based upon the principles and frameworks presented in, Bare Knuckled Project Management; How to Succeed at Every Project. What is BKPM? In a word, control. Bare Knuckled Project Management is first and foremost a mindset; a learned, limbicly conditioned, level of effectiveness that provides reliable options for action even when rational decision-making goes out the window. It is a framework for explaining how to achieve and maintain control over both typical and highly complex projects. It works because we recast the role of a project manager and adhere to a set of guiding principles that we use to reframe how we view and manage projects. It endures because we systematically alter the instinctive responses of project managers to be effective in the face of project wild-cards like stress and data overload. BKPM is simple, direct and effective. It leverages the knowledge and techniques of traditional project management, like those found in PMBOK (PMI’s Project Management Body of Knowledge), but does so with a bias toward control and momentum vs. process. BKPM works in Agile and Waterfall projects. It does so because it is a new way to think about projects, not a project management process.