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Harvard Business Review On Managing Projects

Material type: TextTextPublication details: Boston: Harward Business School Press, ©2005.Edition: 1Description: vii, 190 pages : illustrations ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 9781591396390
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 658.4/04 HAR
Contents:
Why Good Projects Fail Anyway / Nadim F. Matta, Ronald N. Ashkenas -- New Projects: Beware of False Economies / David Davis -- The Return Map: Tracking Product Teams / Charles H. House, Raymond L. Price -- Knowing When to Pull the Plug / Barry M. Staw, Jerry Ross -- Why Bad Projects Are So Hard to Kill / Isabelle Royer -- How to Kill Creativity / Teresa M. Amabile -- Speeding Up Team Learning / Amy Edmondson, Richard Bohmer, Gary Pisano -- What You Don't Know About Making Decisions / David A. Garvin, Michael A. Roberto.
Summary: What does it take to make a project succeed? This astute collection of articles helicopters managers above the day-to-day grind of project management to understand the big-picture reasons behind why projects fly-;and why they fail. Why are some bad projects so hard to kill-;and why do some good projects tank? This book will help managers make decisions that enable the right projects to succeed.
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Book Book Dept. of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Processing Center Dept. of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Gift or donation 658.4/04 HAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available GIFT BY DR. PAWAN K. DHAR DCBG-0026

"This astute collection of articles helicopters managers above the day-to-day grind of project management to understand the big-picture reasons behind why projects fly - and why they fail. Why are some bad projects so hard to kill - and why do some good projects tank? This book will help managers make decisions that enable the right projects to succeed."--Jacket

Why Good Projects Fail Anyway / Nadim F. Matta, Ronald N. Ashkenas --
New Projects: Beware of False Economies / David Davis --
The Return Map: Tracking Product Teams / Charles H. House, Raymond L. Price --
Knowing When to Pull the Plug / Barry M. Staw, Jerry Ross --
Why Bad Projects Are So Hard to Kill / Isabelle Royer --
How to Kill Creativity / Teresa M. Amabile --
Speeding Up Team Learning / Amy Edmondson, Richard Bohmer, Gary Pisano --
What You Don't Know About Making Decisions / David A. Garvin, Michael A. Roberto.

What does it take to make a project succeed? This astute collection of articles helicopters managers above the day-to-day grind of project management to understand the big-picture reasons behind why projects fly-;and why they fail. Why are some bad projects so hard to kill-;and why do some good projects tank? This book will help managers make decisions that enable the right projects to succeed.

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