Robert J. Graham, Randall L. Englund
ISBN: 0-787-96966-4
Cloth
336 pages
January 2004

Since this book was first published in 1997, the project-based organization has become a permeating factor rather than another management fad. As managers in all organizations are being asked to adopt project management skills, Graham and Englund here lay out a map from concept to execution of a successful project.

In this new edition, the authors use feedback from readers and participants in their workshops to help them determine new key areas of interest to be covered.

New topics to be discussed include:

• Portfolio management (managing all the projects that are being managed)
• The role of project teams and how apparently conflicting goals (such as increasing sales or reducing costs) can actually help teams come together instead of move apart
• The role of the chief project officer and examples of why it can be both successful and unsuccessful
• Project management information systems
• The PEAT tool covered in Creating the Project Office
• A new Epilogue that will provide a case study of an organization that has used these principles and thus developed a vastly improved environment.

In addition, the authors will send an email blast to approximately a hundred attendees and ask several questions about their experiences with this material, with the aim to elicit mini-case studies and testimonials that offer more complete examples about what to do, why, and how to implement best practices. They will also summarize additional learnings from follow-on work conducted after the book was published.