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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 AdvisorTM 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.
Running a project? Smell trouble? Get this book on Amazon.com.
Here are specific, practical, immediate solutions for all 18 key causes of project failure:
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Screw-up #1 – We weren’t addressing the right problem
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Screw-up #2 - We designed the wrong thing
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Screw-up #3 - We used the wrong technology
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Screw-up #4 - We didn’t do a good project schedule
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Screw-up #7 - We didn’t involve the right people
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Screw-up #8 - We didn’t communicate what we were doing
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Screw-up #9 - We didn’t pay attention to project risks and management issues
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Screw-up #10 - The project cost much more than expected
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Screw-up #11 - We didn’t understand and report progress against the plan
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Screw-up #12 - We tried to do too much
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Screw-up #13 - We didn’t do enough testing
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Screw-up #14 - We weren’t effective at training the customer
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Screw-up #15 - We didn’t pull the plug on the project when we should have
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Screw-up #16 - We tripped at the finish line
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Screw-up #17 – The vendor didn’t deliver
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Screw-up #18 – We had no fallback position in case the product failed
