Be a Better Sheepdog Project Management Practical Guide: Humour, Analogies, Proverbs and Cartoons to help you remember (Be a Better Sheepdog Project Practical Guides)
Language: English
Published by Independently published, 2020
Series: Book 1 of 2 - Be a Better Sheepdog Project Practical Guides
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- Title
- Be a Better Sheepdog Project Management Practical Guide: Humour, Analogies, Proverbs and Cartoons to help you remember (Be a Better Sheepdog Project Practical Guides)
- Author
- Willcox, Mr David
- Publisher
- Independently published
- Publication year
- 2020
- Condition
- Sehr gut
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 13
- 9798564956901
- Series
- Book 1 of 2: Be a Better Sheepdog Project Practical Guides
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- Bücher
In a world of many books about the subject, why should you pick this one?
- This book is a practical, focused guide on the skills and the simplified processes needed successfully to deliver projects
- It has been written by an experienced consultant Project Manager with a good track record, who has honed these techniques over a 100+ projects and programmes of varying scale in different types of organisational culture over 35 years of doing the job day in day out
- The style of the book is one, which has been used personally to mentor many budding PMs. It uses analogies and proverbs as well as over 70 hopefully humorous cartoons to help you remember the skills and techniques needed. There is scientific research, which backs up what the author has seen in practice about using this learning approach. Rather than learning by rote that Risk Management is really important to apply in your project, it is easier to remember the proverb “Attack the risks before the risks attack you!” especially when under pressure
- There are “Recap to Remember” video summaries of chapters on YouTube to help you consolidate the book content within your memory; search #beabettersheepdog and subscribe to the Better Sheepdog channel to be notified of future videos
- The author has priced the book competitively to cover costs of production, because rather than aiming to make money he is motivated by a desire to improve the performance of the next generation of Project Managers
In terms of chapters, the book first examines an important concept which is what success represents in a project before moving onto the key behaviours, softer and harder skills needed by a Project Manager. It finishes with the 3 processes I believe are needed to run a project, Define, Do and Close. The actual chapter names are:
- The two dimensions of project success
- Your behaviours, it’s all up to you!
- Always remember the human side
- The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place
- Do the right project BEFORE Do the project right (Business Case)
- Forget Stakeholder Management at your peril
- Planning & Estimating, the Bonnie & Clyde partnership of Project Management
- Attack the risks before the risks attack you! (Risk and Assumption management)
- Manage External Dependencies or face the risk of a dropped baton in the relay race (Dependency Management)
- Money makes the Project go round (Financial Management)
- Quality is generally transparent when present, but easily recognised in its absence
- Configuration Management - boring to some but an important piece of the project jigsaw
- A pilot doesn't try and fly a plane without instruments, neither should a Project Manager (Monitoring and Control)
- A Problem Shared is a Problem Halved (Issue Management)
- The Ancient Greeks called it correctly - Everything changes and nothing stands still (Change Management)
- Process – Define a Project
- Process – Do a Project
- Process – Close a Project
I explain the rationale for the book in a video which can be found on my author page within Amazon, click on my photo to access.
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