Managing Smaller Projects: A Practical Guide - Softcover

Watson, Mike

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1900391023 ISBN 13: 9781900391023

Publisher: Project Manager Today, 1997

Synopsis

'There is a dangerous gap in management planning and control.
So called "small projects" can have potentially alarming consequences if they go wrong, but their control is often left to chance.'
The solution, says Mike Watson, is to adapt well tried and tested project management techniques. In 'Managing Smaller Projects' he provides a low overhead, highly practical way of looking after small projects.
He covers all the essential skills of managing smaller projects. From project start-up, to
managing risk, quality, and change, through to controlling the project and implementing a
simple control system, Mike Watson cuts through the jargon of project management. He provides a framework that is as useful to those lacking
formal training, as it is to those who are skilled project managers and want to control smaller projects without the burden of bureaucracy.
'We all run projects' says Mike. 'The techniques in this book will let you manage them more
effectively. As a bonus, the underlying principles are fully compatible with formal project
management methods and can be integrated seamlessly into a corporate environment.'

About this title

From the Publisher

Managing Smaller Projects has favourable press reviews
Reviewed by Professional Manager, the magazine of the UK's Institute of Management, Dr Chris Morgan said: 'Mike Watson's extensive experience as a project manager and teacher is evident in this book. I would strongly recommend it to people starting a career in project management, companies who use small projects as a way of training managers and to academics who teach this subject on CIM level courses. Another reviewer, Dr Chris Preece, says 'a very practical framework to the management of small projects, which is an area largely neglected by writers and practitioners alike. This book definitely fills the gap.' We only publish project management related publications including the UK's leading pm magazine Project Manager Today

From the Author

This book is all about helping people to control smaller projects in a logical and effective way, without incurring the high overheads that come with the project management methods, tools and techniques that are now being used so effectively on large projects and within large organisations.
The Smaller Projects (SP) Method is designed for use both by complete newcomers to project management and those with some experience. It is logical and practical so that it can be applied to a single, small project, or to a portfolio of many smaller projects within an organisation.
The danger, especially in larger organisations, is that smaller projects are left to their own devices while ignoring the fact that together they may represent a significant financial risk that is not being effectively controlled. The only safe and effective way of controlling such activities is to apply the principles of project management.
This book takes those basic principles and gives you the basis for your own project control system.

Mike Watson

Edition details

• Publisher: Project Manager Today
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 1900391023
• ISBN 13: 9781900391023
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 168