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No-Drama Project Management

Avoiding Predictable Problems for Project Success

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  1. Bart Gerardi
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  • No-Drama Project Management: Avoiding Predictable Problems for Project Success teaches project managers how to avoid the predictable mistakes that cause projects to fail, so that they can focus on the unpredictable challenges that should demand most of their attention.

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. The No-Drama Project Manager

    • Bart Gerardi
    Pages 1-14

  3. Project Management Success

    • Bart Gerardi
    Pages 15-28

  4. Identify Requirements

    • Bart Gerardi
    Pages 29-44

  5. Prioritize

    • Bart Gerardi
    Pages 45-57

  6. Manage Change

    • Bart Gerardi
    Pages 59-74

  7. Align with the Client

    • Bart Gerardi
    Pages 75-88

  8. Testing Assumptions

    • Bart Gerardi
    Pages 89-104

  9. Identify Decision Makers

    • Bart Gerardi
    Pages 105-121

  10. Communicate Effectively

    • Bart Gerardi
    Pages 123-141

  11. Develop a Plan

    • Bart Gerardi
    Pages 143-154

  12. Prepare for Problems

    • Bart Gerardi
    Pages 155-169

  13. Establish Metrics

    • Bart Gerardi
    Pages 171-186

  14. Know the Roles

    • Bart Gerardi
    Pages 187-204

  15. Handling the Truly Unexpected

    • Bart Gerardi
    Pages 205-221

  16. The End of Drama

    • Bart Gerardi
    Pages 223-239

  17. Back Matter

    Pages 241-251
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About this book

No-Drama Project Management: Avoiding Predictable Problems for Project Success is a book for project managers who want or need to be more effective. Having a project crash and burn is never a great situation, author Bart Gerardi explains, but it’s not a career buster—unless the failure appears on the short list of recurring, avoidable problems that can and will pop up during any project. If your project fails due to a lack of planning, for example, expect a trip to the woodshed. Why? Your “unexpected problem” was actually both predictable and avoidable.

This book is an exploration of the preventable problems that cause project failures and how to steer clear of them. It includes far more than simple rookie mistakes like trying to please the wrong stakeholder or misunderstanding your role on the team. Those who have been around the block a few times will also find tips and insights that can help them reignite a stalled or meandering career. The sections on managing change adroitly or handling truly unexpected challenges, for example, can get veteran project managers back on track.

There are plenty of books about the science of project management that cover such things as creating a work-breakdown structure or a Gantt chart. No-Drama Project Management is about the art of project management. It contains methods and techniques—illustrated with stories from Gerardi’s rich store of experiences—that’ll help project managers shine and become promotable. This book:

  • Describes the common obstacles that all projects face, and how to defuse or avoid them
  • Explains how project managers can hold a mirror to their own  performance and improve it
  • Shows project managers how to become masters at expecting the unexpected and thereby ratcheting up their success rates

About the author

Bart Gerardi is a program manager for an e-commerce company. He has been a consultant, manager, and leader for 15 years. Bart s love of bringing projects to market has spanned several companies, positions, and waves of Internet fads. Always on the lookout for new projects to run, he also manages the delivery of several teams bringing the next generation of e-commerce to the industry.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: No-Drama Project Management

  • Book Subtitle: Avoiding Predictable Problems for Project Success

  • Authors: Bart Gerardi

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-3991-8

  • Publisher: Apress Berkeley, CA

  • eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Business and Management (R0), Apress Access Books

  • Copyright Information: Bart Gerardi 2011

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4302-3990-1Published: 21 December 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4302-3991-8Published: 13 January 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 264

  • Topics: Business and Management, general

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