The Lost Art of Planning Projects

<b>Appropriate planning of a project is the hallmark of a professional project manager. Good planning is what sets apart great projects from accidents.</b> <p>Purposeful planning is what ensures that the executive actions undertaken remain connected to the goals and outcomes expected by the stakeholders. There is no single approach to planning a project but neither is project planning a free-for-all. This book takes you through many of the common planning situations you will meet addressing how planning decisions alter depending on the project context.</p> <p>It also discusses how resource-constrained planning differs from end-date schedule planning. The authors look at what is different between cost-constrained plans and time boxing and they discuss why you must plan when using Agile and how to plan for innovation as well as planning when managing a project portfolio and what planning means in a program. To tell this story we have distilled over seventy years of our combined personal experience of supporting project managers deliver and thousands of person-years of others' practical knowledge to illustrate tools models and approaches that suggest what to do in what circumstances.</p> <p>Also available are supplementary materials and tools on a website associated with the book which we hope you find useful when you plan your next project!</p>