TY - BOOK TI - Harvard Business Review On Managing Projects SN - 9781591396390 U1 - 658.4/04 HAR PY - 2005/// CY - Boston PB - Harward Business School Press KW - Project management KW - Organization and Administration N1 - "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 N2 - 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 ER -