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Results Without Authority: Controlling a Project When the Team Doesn't Report to You - A Project Manager's Guide

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"When you're a project manager with a team of people who don't technically report to you, your challenge is to get Results Without Authority. This book delivers proven techniques for controlling projects and managing diverse teams in a wide varietyMore"When you're a project manager with a team of people who don't technically report to you, your challenge is to get Results Without Authority. This book delivers proven techniques for controlling projects and managing diverse teams in a wide variety of situations, and bringing those projects to successful closure. The concepts in this book are essential for all project managers, with and without authority, because they offer a productive alternative to ""command and control"" management techniques that can easily backfire.



Tom Kendrick's system will help you get successful project results from diverse, cross-functional, virtual, outsourced, and other types of project teams by showing how to establish and build:



Control Through Process. Key project management processes, infrastructure, and the role of the project office.



Control Through Influence. Productive leadership styles, reciprocity, and maintaining relationships.



Control Through Project Metrics. Quantitative, predictive, diagnostic, and retrospective metrics for project control, motivating desired behaviors, and avoiding potential problems.



Control Through Project Initiation. The role of the sponsor in project control, the importance of project vision, project launch documentation, and the project start-up workshop.



Control Through Project Planning. Collaborative planning as the foundation of project control; planning as a key factor in setting baselines and establishing metrics.



Control During Project Execution. Measurement and interpretation of project status, informal communication, and maintaining relationships as keys to maintaining control.



Control Through Tracking and Monitoring. Controlling scope and other project parameters; formal project communication and reporting, rewards and recognition, and project reviews.



Enhancing Overall Control Through Project Closure. Sign-off, evaluating retrospective project metrics, celebrating, and rewarding the team; improving long-term project control through lessons learned.



Packed with invaluable guidance for controlling projects of all scopes and in any field, Results Without Authority will help novice and experienced project leaders get the best from their project teams." Less

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Patrick

rated it liked it
almost 7 years ago

Shelves: business , personal-mba , project-management
Results Without Authority is a project management book that covers project management from inception to conclusion. It focuses on projects where the PM has little authority, of course. Kendrick faces this task by combining traditional PMP-style project management with les... Read full review
Bob Wallner

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over 3 years ago
Recommends it for: Project Managers

Shelves: leadership , change , audible
I listened to this book on audio not sure what to expect. Projects are such a part of every leader's day. Generally if I am not leading a project, I'm on a project team, and at the least I have tasks for a project.

I only gave this book 3 stars, because the depth of the to... Read full review
Leif Denti

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almost 2 years ago

Newly appointed project leader and wish to lead it 'By the Book'? Well this book could easily be THE book. It is a straightforward, comprehensive and clear introduction to waterfall-type project management from inception to wrap-up. A such I would give it four stars at th... Read full review
Kyrsten Gammon

rated it really liked it
almost 3 years ago

I was actually assigned this book for a course I am taking this summer, Contract Management, and I have to say, it is very good. The techniques suggested were explained and illustrated well, and I am currently utilizing them in my current position as a Human Resources Ana... Read full review
Erika Hoogesteger

rated it it was ok
4 months ago

I am in chapter 3 and I have to say I am disappointed. Based on the title, I assumed the author would provide some tips on influencing without authority and what I have read are simple how-tos for project management. As other reviewers noted, there are some good tidbits a... Read full review
Pancho

rated it it was ok
about 1 year ago

Perhaps a fully-immersed Project Manager would find greater value in the book, but it was not of terribly great help to my non-traditional project management environment. I made it half-way through, but I could not finish this book as it was written. It is full of excessi... Read full review
Steve Whiting

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over 1 year ago

There's a lot of really good advice and information in this book, and it's worth the recommendation for that.

However, it's absolutely relentless in the amount of detail and the number of examples used, which does make the book a bit of a chore to actually read.

Well worth... Read full review
BeyondDL

rated it really liked it
almost 4 years ago

Shelves: the-big-list
Kendrick's work in "Results Without Authority" would make a great addition to both the new and experienced project managers bookshelf. With a plethora of good ideas almost any project management situation can find a solution here. Kendrick's experience and depth of knowle... Read full review

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Book Details

Paperback, 262 pages
Published July 1st 2006 by AMACOM/American Management Association
ISBN
0814473431 (ISBN13: 9780814473436)
Edition Language
English
Original Title
Results Without Authority: Controlling a Project When the Team Doesn't Report to You

About this Author

180203. ux50 TOM KENDRICK has over 35 years of project and program experience, including senior positions with Hewlett-Packard and Visa. He is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP®) and the author of several highly respected project management books, including Identifying and Managing Project Risk.
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