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The Project Management Advisor:  18 Major Project Screw-Ups And How To Cut Them Off At The Pass

The Project Management Advisor: 
18 Major Project Screw-Ups And How To Cut Them Off At The Pass

This is your complete, hands-on guide to saving projects in trouble.

Drawing on 20 years of frontline project management experience, Lonnie Pacelli, The Project Management Advisor^TM identifies the 18 most pervasive causes of project failure: their causes, early warning signs, and how to fix them before it’s too late.

 

If you’re a working project manager, consultant, or team leader, this book is your secret weapon. It’s fast. Relevant. Practical. Easy to read. Easy to use. Above all: it works.

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Here are specific, practical, immediate solutions for all 18 key causes of project failure:

• Screw-up #1 – We weren’t addressing the right problem

• Screw-up #2 - We designed the wrong thing

• Screw-up #3 - We used the wrong technology

• Screw-up #4 - We didn’t do a good project schedule

• Screw-up #5 - We didn’t have the right sponsorship

• Screw-up #6 - The team didn’t gel

• Screw-up #7 - We didn’t involve the right people

• Screw-up #8 - We didn’t communicate what we were doing

• Screw-up #9 - We didn’t pay attention to project risks and management issues

• Screw-up #10 - The project cost much more than expected

• Screw-up #11 - We didn’t understand and report progress against the plan

• Screw-up #12 - We tried to do too much

• Screw-up #13 - We didn’t do enough testing

• Screw-up #14 - We weren’t effective at training the customer

• Screw-up #15 - We didn’t pull the plug on the project when we should have

• Screw-up #16 - We tripped at the finish line

• Screw-up #17 – The vendor didn’t deliver

• Screw-up #18 – We had no fallback position in case the product failed

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