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by Louise M. Worsley (Author), Christopher Worsley (Author)
Appropriate planning of a project is the hallmark of a professional project manager. Good planning is what sets apart great projects from accidents.
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.
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.
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!
Author Biography
Louise Worsley has been a project management consultant, lecturer, and coach for nearly 30 years. She is a visiting lecturer at the University of Cape Town on the MSc in project management, a judge on the PMO Global Awards, and the Chairperson of the judging committee for the PMO South Africa Awards. Louise is a regular contributor to project management online forums, providing articles and case studies in a variety of areas related to project and program management. As the joint leader of the Success Stories Shared initiative to encourage learning across the South African project manager community, she has captured and shared project stories with a particular focus on effective stakeholder engagement strategies.
