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Turn your strategy into business reality with proven project management and leadership best practices

According to Harvard Business Review, IT project failure costs businesses $3 trillion dollars annually. That’s just IT. For the full scope this issue, increase that number exponentially. If you expect more from strategic planning and don’t think projects should decimate budgets and professional reputations, you’re in good company. CEO of UltiMentors Duane Petersen has dedicated his career to helping business leaders transform their companies by turning their strategic vision into portfolios of successful projects.

Now, Petersen shares his winning method with you.

Transforming Project Management takes you beyond envisioning a great strategy and into the realm of implementing it―with skill, care, and expertise. Petersen explains how to break down a strategic plan into key objectives and project portfolios to make sense of all the project “parts”—then successfully lead the execution of the plan. You’ll learn how to evaluate where you are versus where you want to be, develop plans to move your vision forward, translate strategic plans into action plans with tangible efforts, budgets, and schedules, and guide and inspire the individuals and teams tasked with implementing their plans.

Knowing precisely how much a major project will cost before it begins and having processes and tools to monitor how well it’s meeting benchmarks along the way should be standard business practice. Clearly, it’s not. With Transforming Project Management, you have everything you need to tie strategic planning directly to project management—and lead your company to the head of your industry.

Table of Contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Foreword by Lee R. Lambert
  6. Foreword by Robert Hughes
  7. Introduction
  8. Chapter One Strategic Planning
    1. Why We Need to Change Our Approach
  9. Chapter Two Making Sense from Nonsense
  10. Chapter Three Developing a Rock-Solid Budget
  11. Chapter Four How Long Will It Really Take?
  12. Chapter Five Procurements
    1. Avoiding Contracting Disaster
  13. Chapter Six Integrated Change Control
  14. Chapter Seven Agile
    1. Awesome? Or an Excuse to Keep People Employed?
  15. Chapter Eight Project Resources
    1. The Science Behind Herding Cats
  16. Chapter Nine Quality
    1. Quality Is Different Than Most People Think
  17. Chapter Ten Miscellaneous Notes
    1. Do You Understand Enough About Risk?
  18. Chapter Eleven Software of a Project Manager’s Dream!
  19. Chapter Twelve Launching Pad
  20. Index
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