Project Orienteering: A Field Guide For Project Leadership - Hardcover

Brinkmeyer, Denise

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1642252476 ISBN 13: 9781642252477

Publisher: Advantage Media Group, 2021

Synopsis

EVERY PROJECT IS A JOURNEY.
Many of us still approach project management as a set of best practices and processes that follow a structured and linear path to delivering a project’s intended outcome. But what often happens during the course of a project is that communication generates confusion, schedules get off track, sponsors disengage, and teams can end up far away from their intended destinations.
You’ll be well prepared to address whatever might go off course in any project if you anticipate and plan ahead by following the guiding principles outlined in this book. With Project Orienteering, author Denise Brinkmeyer takes readers through every phase of a project’s journey, with attention to a project’s most variable elements―its people. She argues that the most important skill we bring to a project is an ability to adjust, flex, and pivot in ways that remain sensitive to the delicate balance among time requirements, funding allotments, and a project’s overall value.

Brinkmeyer speaks primarily to project managers but has something to say to everyone involved: from stakeholders, sponsors, and project teams to customers and end users. She shows that successfully achieving a vision within a project’s designated budget is possible, as is creating a collaborative team environment in which everyone remains focused on the value being delivered, expectations are aligned along the way, and team members practice an adaptive, predictive approach to navigating the project’s changing terrain.

About this title

About the Author

DENISE BRINKMEYER is president and chief strategic innovator of JUMP Technology Services, a leading provider of award-winning information technology products and services for public agencies and organizations. She and her team help others find their way through a labyrinth of complex issues embedded in technology innovation by developing and implementing software project management and software design methodologies that dramatically increase both customer satisfaction and department performance.Denise is a sought-after speaker and trainer in the industry and host of the podcast Practical Project Management, a series of conversations with project managers and sponsors offering practical approaches to difficult projects and difficult people. She believes that anyone can reach their goals so long as they ask the right questions and then make a commitment to carry through the necessary actions.

From the Back Cover

In Project Orienteering, Denise Brinkmeyer introduces the idea that project management is first and foremost an exercise in leadership communication.

The ability to engage stakeholder groups based on their differing needs requires careful listening and communication skills, a capacity for real-time problem solving, the ability to adapt nimbly to changing circumstances, and the desire to facilitate others' success.

By approaching every project as a journey, Brinkmeyer emphasizes the necessity of good communication and the importance of setting out with as good a map as possible, knowing full well that exploration along the way will influence both the level of detail the map acquires and the travelers' capacity to anticipate the nature and quality of as-yet-unexplored territory.

Edition details

• Publisher: Advantage Media Group
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1642252476
• ISBN 13: 9781642252477
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 168