- Practical Project Initiation: A Handbook with Tools
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- Preface
- I. Project Management Fundamentals
- 1. A Project Management Primer
- 2. Project Management Good Practices
- Laying the Foundation
- Planning the Project
- Practice #5: Write a Plan
- Practice #6: Decompose Tasks to Inch-Pebble Granularity
- Practice #7: Develop Planning Worksheets for Common Large Tasks
- Practice #8: Plan to Do Rework After a Quality Control Activity
- Practice #9: Manage Project Risks
- Practice #10: Plan Time for Process Improvement
- Practice #11: Respect the Learning Curve
- Estimating the Work
- Tracking Your Progress
- Learning for the Future
- Practice Activities
- 3. Just Too Much to Do
- II. Preparing for Success
- 4. Success Criteria Breed Success
- 5. Are We There Yet?
- 6. Know Your Enemy: Introduction to Risk Management
- 7. Chartering a Course for Success
- 8. Lessons Learned from Tool Adoption
- III. Living with Reality
- IV. Measuring What Happens
- 12. A Software Metrics Primer
- 13. Metrics Traps to Avoid
- Trap #1: Lack of Management Commitment
- Trap #2: Measuring Too Much, Too Soon
- Trap #3: Measuring Too Little, Too Late
- Trap #4: Measuring the Wrong Things
- Trap #5: Imprecise Metrics Definitions
- Trap #6: Using Metrics Data to Evaluate Individuals
- Trap #7: Using Metrics to Motivate, Rather Than to Understand
- Trap #8: Collecting Data That Isn’t Used
- Trap #9: Lack of Communication and Training
- Trap #10: Misinterpreting Metrics Data
- Practice Activities
- V. Learning Continuously
- References
- A. About the Author
- Index
- About the Author
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Study your two most recently completed (or canceled) projects and identify lessons from them that might save time on your next project. Record these on Table 14-4 or in an electronic form that mimics this worksheet.
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