The Project Management Book

part five

Practical project management

The preceding four parts of this book explored some of the essential foundations of project management. In this part I want to build on that, and look at some key lessons from experience. I will look at the factors that differentiate competent project managers from the high performers.

The first section looks again at risk management and how you convert it from being a passive discipline to a core component of a project. The second section discusses an area of efficiency – multi-tasking, and puts the case for reducing it as much as possible. The third section explores the plan on a page. In the era of PowerPoint, the plan on a page has become a standard piece of project management. This can be a powerful ...