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August 04, 2006 - OSHAWA, ON - There is a dangerous gap in management planning and control. So-called “small projects” can have potentially alarming consequences if they go wrong, but their control is often left to chance. The solution is to adapt tried and tested project management techniques.
Now available for the first time in North America, the best-selling British book Managing Smaller Projects: A Practical Approach provides a low-overhead, practical way of looking after small projects that covers all the essential skills. From project start-up, to managing risk, quality and change, through to controlling the project and implementing a simple control system, author and award-winning trainer Mike Watson cuts through the jargon of project management. He provides a framework that is as useful to those lacking formal training, as it is to those who are skilled project managers wanting to control smaller projects without the burden of bureaucracy.
When the book was first published in Britain, Watson noted that “Many of the methods and techniques used in traditional project management look like proverbial sledgehammers when directed at smaller projects. So, I set out to devise a system that can be used easily to create a way of controlling smaller projects in any environment.” Among many glowing reviews, IEE Engineering Management stated that Watson’s book “is indeed a success in achieving that goal.”
This best-selling book has now been updated for North American audiences, including information on how the practices in the book relate to the project management standards published by the U.S.-based Project Management Institute. The underlying principles are fully compatible with formal project management methods and can be integrated seamlessly into a corporate environment.
We all work with small projects. The techniques in this book will let you manage them more effectively.
"Managing Smaller Projects" (ISBN 1895186854) $34.75 US/$39.55 CDN, 240 pages, paperback.
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