| Preface |
| Acknowledgments |
| Introduction |
| Part 1 First Things First - You Must Really Want To Do It |
| Introduction |
| How Much Planning Do We Actually Do? And Now the Bad News |
| So Why Do Projects Take So Much Time? How the Movies Do It |
| Shooting Movies in the Shortest Possible Time |
| Multitasking |
| And the Result of All This? Convincing the Others |
| Introduction |
| Building A Profit Model |
| Show Them the Money |
| What if it Runs Over? |
| Reference |
| Part 2 Answer the Need- Identify the Right Project |
| Introduction |
| What's Our Project? Will This Keep the Stakeholders Happy? Worked Example |
| References |
| Part 3 Build the Plan- Identify the Work To Be Done |
| How to Build a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) |
| How to Build a WBS From Reusable Components |
| Estimating |
| Worked Example |
| Jobs, Dependencies, Effort |
| Summary |
| References |
| Add in the Project Management |
| Introduction |
| A Rule of Thumb |
| Worked Example |
| What If I Don't Have Enough Time? |
| References |
| Get People To Do the Work |
| Introduction |
| People |
| Peoples' Availability |
| Strengths and Weaknesses |
| Worked Example |
| Put Contingency Into the Plan? |
| Introduction |
| Putting Contingency in the Plan |
| Worked Example |
| Reference |
| Do a Risk Analysis |
| Introduction |
| Doing a Risk Analysis |
| Worked Example |
| Reference |
| Part 4 Turbocharge the Plan-Prepare To Shorten the Plan |
| Introduction |
| The Strip Board |
| Worked Example |
| Reference |
| Shorten the Plan? |
| Introduction |
| Worked Example |
| Epilogue |
| Sell the Plan - Introduction |
| The Team |
| The Powers-That-Be |
| Worked Example-Pitching to the Team |
| Worked Example-Pitching to the Higher-Ups |
| References |
| Part 5 Execute the Plan- Monitor, Control, and Report |
| Monitoring and Control |
| Continue to Shorten the Project |
| Where to Put Your Project Management Effort |
| Status Reporting |
| Worked Example |
| References |
| Do a Post-Mortem |
| Introduction |
| Worked Example-The Informal Post-Mortem |
| Worked Example- The Real Post-Mortem |
| Introduction |
| Reference |
| Part 6 Bringing It All Together- Run Multiple Projects |
| Introduction |
| Worked Example |
| References |
| Implementing These Ideas in Your Organization |
| Where Do I Start? How Do I Continue? |
| Bibliography |
| Other References |
| About the Author |
| Index |
