HBR Guide to Project Management (HBR Guide Series)

What You’ll Learn

You’ve been asked to lead a project. You appreciate the vote of confidence, but are you panicking because you haven’t a clue where to begin? Do you worry that stakeholders will tug you in a million directions, making it impossible to set clear goals, let alone deliver the goods on time and on budget? How will you know when to stick to your original plan and when to be flexible? And how will you keep all your team members excited about this project—when they have so many other pressures on them?

This guide will give you the confidence and tools you need to manage projects effectively.

You’ll get better at:

• Choosing the right team and keeping it humming
• Avoiding “scope creep”
• Zeroing in on critical tasks and mapping out a logical ...