Much of the work performed in organizations around the world today is project oriented. Those responsible for leading the majority of these projects to successful results have varied educational backgrounds, knowledge, skill sets, and experiences gained over the course of their lives and careers that do not include the professional discipline known as project management. Most are managing projects as part of their role, not their profession. However, these accidental project managers frequently run into the same sort of issues and problems faced by those whose profession is project management, but they lack the education or training to properly address them. As a result, more projects run by accidental project managers fail than succeed.This handbook was developed specifically for those accidental project managers and for the relatively new project managers within the profession. It is uniquely organized in a manner designed to help these project managers quickly find specific solutions to the problems they are desperate to fix right now! The text is divided into two broad categories: the Art of Project Management and the Science of Project Management. Each part is divided into chapters to narrow the user's search by type of issue that project managers encounter, such as Planning and Managing Risks. These are then further divided by specific problems labeled as sub-chapters, such as "The company's project management process doesn't work for me" and "My project is too dependent on a few key people." Project Pain Reliever: A Just-In-Time Handbook for Anyone Managing Projects is essentially a plug-and-play answer to the accidental project manager's problems, and a valuable desk reference for all project managers.
Dave Garrett is president and CEO of gantthead.com, the largest online community of project managers in the world. Garrett is a project manager dedicated to creating value for the project management community and to the continued growth of its media networks (gantthead.com, projectsatwork.com, and others), which now reach over 500,000 managers worldwide. His strategic, management, and technical expertise has enabled him to guide the gantthead team in the development and refinement of resources that are unmatched in the project management industry.
Chapter contributors to Project Pain Reliever include:
- Gina Abudi
- Panagiotis Agrapidis
- Imad Alsadeq
- David Arias
- Harlan Bridges
- Alex S. Brown
- Peter Carothers
- Luis Antonio Crespo
- Craig Curran-Morton
- Mike Donoghue
- Ed Evarts
- Cicero Ferreira
- Andrew Filev
- Cornelius Fitchner
- Michael B. Flint
- Elizabeth Harrin
- Andy Jordan
- Ty Kiisel
- Paul S. Lukas
- Jerry Manas
- Alexander Matthey
- Stephen Maye
- Josh Nankivel
- Mark Price Perry
- Aaron Porter, MBA, PMP
- Dave Prior
- Jennifer Russell
- Fran Samaras
- Alec Satin
- Aaron Smith
- Ian Stewart
- Peter Taylor
- J. Chris White
- Jennifer Whitt
- Michael Wood
