Creative project management
Subtitle: innovative project options to solve problems on time and under budget
By: Michael S. Dobson and Ted Leemann
Contributors: Leemann, Ted
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
ISBN-13: 9780071739337
Subjects: Creative ability in business; Project management
Description: The seven essential tools for keeping projects on time and under budget You're executing risk management, leadership, and planning--all hallmarks of outstanding project management. And yet you're still having trouble keeping your projects on schedule. Creative Project Management adds two new elements to the mix: creativity and innovation. Internationally renowned project management consultants Michael Dobson and Ted Leemann combine traditional project management skills, such as risk evaluation, decision-making, and human dynamics, with outside-the-box thinking and business creativity. They provide seven new tools and approaches you can apply to any project.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-249) and index.
Table of contents: title: Why do 70 percent of projects fail?; title: What we know and what we think; title: The most dangerous word is a premature "yes"; title: Good enough, barely adequate, failure; title: When the project appears impossible; title: Knowns and unknowns : the risk factor; title: Project : intelligence; title: It takes a village to wreck a project; title: Framing change; title: Salvaging project value; title: Appendix A. Questions for the creative project manager; title: Appendix B. Cognitive biases.