Radical Project Management, 1e Book

	Preface
Ch. 1	The New Project Environment	3
	Forces Driving Change	4
Ch. 2	Project Management Evolution	15
	The Four Waves of Project Management	18
Ch. 3	eXtreme Concepts	23
	Project Management Versus Technical Management	24
	Context and Content	25
	Whole-of-Life Project Management	27
	Project Manager as Facilitator	29
	Sponsors as Executive Project Managers	31
	Scenario Planning	33
	Rapid Planning	34
	Virtual Teams	36
	It's the Context, Stupid	37
Ch. 4	eXtreme Project Management Context	41
	Two Very Different Types of Work	41
	The Categories of Project Work	43
Ch. 5	The eXtreme Project Management Model	49
	Project Management Processes	49
	The Project Charter or Business Case	57
Ch. 6	The RAP Process	61
	Why Should We Run RAP Sessions?	62
	The RAP Structure	65
Ch. 7	Analyze Project Success	69
	What Are Expectations?	71
	The Seven Success Criteria	72
	eXtreme Tool 1: Success Sliders	74
Ch. 8	Define Scope, Objectives, and Stakeholders	79
	What Is the Difference between Scope and Objectives?	79
	Stakeholders and Related Projects	86
	Related Projects - A Special Case of Stakeholder	87
Ch. 9	Analyze Added Value	95
	The State of the Art	95
	Added-Value Analysis	101
	Benefits Realization	107
Ch. 10	Define Quality	115
	Project Quality Deployment	115
	What Is a Quality?	119
	Toward an Effective Quality Plan: PQD in Action	121
	Quality in Action	125
	Quality, Estimates, Costs, and Risks	128
Ch. 11	Select a Development Strategy	133
	Strategy Ain't Methodology	135
	The Four Development Strategies	136
	Rapid Application Development (RAD), Agile, and Other Variations	145
	Partitioning Guidelines	147
	Strategy Selection	148
	Strategy and Risk Assessment	149
Ch. 12	Analyze Risk	155
	Project Risk Assessment Overview	157
	Project Risk Management	160
	Risk Containment or Reduction	167
	Shooting the Messenger	170
Ch. 13	Develop Task Lists	175
	Develop Project Task Lists	175
	A Moral Dilemma	183
	Scenario and Real-Time Planning	185
Ch. 14	Estimate Tasks	189
	Causes of Estimation Error	189
	Estimation Principles	195
	The Detailed Estimation Process	197
Ch. 15	Develop Schedule	211
	Develop Project Execution Plan	213
	Scenario Planning Revisited	219
	Develop Project Staffing Agreements	221
Ch. 16	Develop Return on Investment	227
	Develop Cost and ROI Scenarios	229
	Analyzing Project Costs	234
	Developing Your ROI	235
Ch. 17	Project Tracking and Reporting	239
	Project Tracking	239
	Project Reporting	246
	The Project Change Control Process	253
	Maintaining the Project Management File	255
Ch. 18	Postimplementation Reviews	259
	The Postimplementation Review	259
	The Learning Loop Concept	265
	The System Support Review	268
	Benefits Realization Planning	268
Ch. 19	Support	275
	The Support Problem	276
	The Production Support Portfolio	278
	Passages: The Life Cycle of Production Systems	280
	Conclusion	282
Ch. 20	Getting the Sponsor You Deserve	287
Rule 1	The Bag of Money and the Baseball Bat	288
Rule 2	The Passive Conduit	290
Rule 3	You Generally Get the Sponsor You Deserve	292
Rule 4	In the Absence of Information, Executives Still Make Decisions	293
Rule 5	Educate as Well as Inform	295
Rule 6	The Level of Help You Get Is Inversely Proportional to Your Delay in Asking	296
Rule 7	Show Them the Money	298
Rule 8	"Beam Us Up, Scotty"	299
Rule 9	No Sponsor, No Start	300
Ch. 21	Getting the Stakeholders You Deserve	303
	Rob's Corporate Mathematics	303
	Why You Need Your Stakeholders	304
	How to Win Stakeholders Over	305
	How to Get the Project You All Want	308
Ch. 22	A Question of Ethics	311
	Situation 1	311
	Situation 2	312
	Situation 3	312
	Situation 4	312
	Situation 5	313
	Best Practice and Best Behavior	313
	Organizational and Individual Impact	315
	Drawing the Line - An Extreme Project Management Responsibility	316
	A Draft Code of Ethical Behavior for eXtreme Project People	317
Ch. 23	The Success Sliders Redux	319
	Requirements Are Not the Same as Expectations	320
	So, What Are Expectations?	320
	The Swiss Army Knife	321
	Other Tips for Understanding Expectations	323
Ch. 24	In Case of Emergencies	327
	The Dark Side	328
	The Good Side	331
	Come to the Dark Side, Luke	333
Ch. 25	The Secret of Great Project Managers	335
	References	337
	Index	341