Lanterna Rally

Author: Fred Obiero

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Published: 2021-02-21

Total Pages: 178

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Project Management is omnipresent. Not just in IT or Construction. We do it on a daily basis, even in our personal lives (well, at least some of us). We are not going to bore you with the history lessons and when Henry Gantt developed the first planning and controlling techniques. The motivation for this book comes from multiple years of managing projects and "retrospectives" from the failed experiments. From ERP system implementation to simple workflow design, we all are project managers, whether at home or at work. Most of us manage projects on daily basis without the realization of doing so. Project management rules our daily lives. We initiate projects by discussing them with our families or friends. Planning starts with properly outlining some sort of plan which we will follow to accomplish all of the tasks necessary. We execute the tasks and manage the progress continuously until we are fully satisfied with the outcome. Collectively, we have been managing projects for almost 20 years combined, mostly for Fortune 500 companies. All this fancy jargon and big names mean only so much in theory. Theory and methodology allow you to grasp the main concepts of project management. What separates this book from the rest is the practical experience which provided us with a unique opportunity to compile the right mixture of project management tools and methodologies, which create ultimate value for the company and put you, as a project manager, in a position to build self-managing teams and implement effective processes in place at any organization. To get the most relevant and practical information in this book, we have conducted an extensive literature search of papers in areas about leadership theory, behavioral psychology, knowledge management, process engineering, and complexity theory. Moreover, we have studied numerous business cases from some of the most epic project failures to the most celebrated successful deliveries. Lastly, through the Ivy Podcast, we have conducted numerous interviews with some of the most accomplished executives from top organizations to get their insights and strategies for effective project management. We use these lessons and tools on a daily basis and sincerely hope that this book helps you become a better practical project manager equipped with the right information ready for practical use. Throughout this book, you will encounter a lot of common and new Project Management concepts. To help you better understand such concepts, we will employ the use of "Real Life Examples", which will be based on the techniques and tools that we have previously used while working at Fortune 500 Companies such as Ultimate Software, Citrix, IBM, and others. Moreover, this book comes with a library of key templates and documents that we have created throughout our years at these companies, which we hope will come in useful to our readers as they embark on their project management journey.