{"product_id":"9781620955468","title":"The Project Is Dead... Long Live The Project!: The Way to Successfully Handover an IT Project Into Production and How to Avoid Runaway Projects","description":"Why did I write this book?\u003cbr\u003eIt seems to me that a lot of money is wasted in projects that are not well concluded and\u003cbr\u003einadequately handed over to production. Mistakes during the whole project are causing\u003cbr\u003ethis. Lack of project methodologies, under trained associates and “hidden agendas” are\u003cbr\u003eother typical factors. To give an analogy, an airplane flight doesn’t just end for all those\u003cbr\u003eon board with the landing. Some of the staff will have additional tasks and duties while\u003cbr\u003eothers just leave the plane. This has to be kept in mind.\u003cbr\u003eProject money is not monopoly money either. It’s not your own money, but you have to\u003cbr\u003etreat it as if you have been working for it very hard.\u003cbr\u003eIt’s not my intention to give you clear instructions on how to avoid these and other\u003cbr\u003eissues. So this is neither a cook book nor a clear working guide to follow, except\u003cbr\u003eperhaps the included checklists and form examples. My intention is to show some\u003cbr\u003esituations every project is at some time faced with and some ideas on how to avoid\u003cbr\u003ethem.\u003cbr\u003eI’m well aware that there is no perfect project closure phase. Several circumstances,\u003cbr\u003elike shift of scope, staff rotation in the project or in the line management organization\u003cbr\u003eetc., can lead to a bad result in project closure, and which eventually cause problems in\u003cbr\u003eproduction. My belief is that an ambitious project manager should try to excel at each\u003cbr\u003etask in project management, each time this task has to be performed. So the motto is\u003cbr\u003e“Keep on trying!” or “Get a higher level of maturity”. You should follow the “principle of\u003cbr\u003estructure”, as one can see on page 66.\u003cbr\u003eYou might or might not have a clear project management methodology (e.g. CSC\u003cbr\u003eCatalyst, RUP, PRINCE I, II or some other) in your company to follow already. The bad\u003cbr\u003enews is that even if you have one, this is no guarantee that you will not be faced with\u003cbr\u003eone of these phenomena early or later in your career. Almost all project management\u003cbr\u003emethodologies foresee actions to close a project in one way or another. For sure you\u003cbr\u003ewill not pay to much attention to these tasks in the launch phase of the project.\u003cbr\u003ePurpose and scope\u003cbr\u003e8\u003cbr\u003eYou might then say “Another thing to care about during the hectic times”. Well this\u003cbr\u003estatement is true for the first project where you try to implement positive extracts of this\u003cbr\u003ebook, but hopefully your next one will be easier.\u003cbr\u003eIn all following projects closure issues can become daily business for you.\u003cbr\u003eOrganizations are very limited in their ability to learn, but you can. If you are a\u003cbr\u003etrained\/certified project manager handling this task better increases your excellence and\u003cbr\u003eyour reputation. But being certified does not mean that you yourself are a good project\u003cbr\u003emanager. Being certified assures that your project manager back pack has been initially\u003cbr\u003efilled with the essential knowledge in that area.\u003cbr\u003e“Dreamland Corporation” is a chapter of fantasy, describing what I would expect in a\u003cbr\u003eperfect environment. It just describes my expectations and not what the consequences\u003cbr\u003ewould be if I would get what I was wishing for. So I have just described the layer that I’d\u003cbr\u003ebe acting in.\u003cbr\u003eGolden rules can be printed and pinned on your office wall. Golden rules are also\u003cbr\u003e“golden questions” you should ask yourself from time to time.","brand":"BookBaby","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47151757132016,"sku":"9781620955468","price":6.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781620955468_p0.jpg?v=1763859008","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781620955468","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}