How to Save a Failing Project: Chaos to Control

Young, Ralph R.

ISBN 10: 1567262392 / ISBN 13: 9781567262391

Published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2009

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: How to Save a Failing Project: Chaos to Control
• Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1567262392
• ISBN 13: 9781567262391
• Binding: paperback
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

How do you save a failing project when it seems like there's no turning back?



How to Save a Failing Project: Chaos to Control provides the knowledge and insight you need to recognise a project in trouble, determine what to do about it, and transform it into a success. You'll also discover methods, techniques, and tools to keep a project from getting into trouble in the first place.



? Understand the value of a project plan - and of updating this plan continuously as you execute the project

? Recognise signs that the project is deviating from the approach needed for successful completion

? Develop a set of metrics that provide insight into the health of your project

? Identify and implement steps to get your project back on track

? Prevent the fatal missteps that can lead to project failure

? Position your team for project success

About the Author

Ralph R. Young, DBA, is an active leader and contributor in systems, software, and process engineering. Dr. Young is the director of Engineering Process Improvement, Systems and Process Engineering, Defense Group at Northrop Grumman Information Technology, a leading provider of systems-based solutions. He supports internal and external projects to improve their capabilities to use process improvement techniques, implement effective requirements practices, and develop innovations to facilitate project management. Dr. Young is a graduate of the University of New Hampshire and earned a Master of Arts in economics and a Doctorate in Business Administration at The George Washington University. He is the author of Effective Requirements Practices (Addison-Wesley, 2001) and The Requirements Engineering Handbook (Artech House, 2004).