Blueprint for Project Recovery--A Project Management Guide: The Complete Process for Getting Derailed Projects

by Ronald B. Cagle

With the acceleration of technology and information, projects are becoming more complex, costly, and time-constrained -- and every year thousands of them get cancelled or end up costing significantly more than their original projections. Project and program managers are sorely in need of tools to help them avoid failure. Blueprint for Project Recovery provides readers with a proven, proceduralized methodology for identifying where and how projects went off course, and a defined plan of action to bring them back on track. Based on years of research and including a CD-ROM packed with all the forms, checklists and resources used in the text, the book gives readers an entire process for both evaluating and repairing projects gone off course, and guidance for planning them more effectively in the first place. The book is designed as an easy reference troubleshooting guide that readers can use immediately to solve all their project difficulties. Every project or program has exigencies that can cause problems with cost, schedule, or outcome. Blueprint for Project Recovery! is the ultimate

304 pages, Hardcover

First published March 24, 2003

Reviews

[Adrienna · Rating 1 out of 5]

Per the synopsis shortened: "With the acceleration of technology and information, projects are becoming more complex, costly, and time-constrained -- and every year thousands of them get cancelled or end up costing significantly more than their original projections. Project and program managers are sorely in need of tools to help them avoid failure. Blueprint for Project Recovery provides readers with a proven, proceduralized methodology for identifying where and how projects went off course, and a defined plan of action to bring them back on track."

This book reads like a scholarly methodology material and not sure how I would use this in the workplace which was my reasoning for reading the material. To see if it could sharpen my ideas, goals, and projects; yet, sadly this book did not help. I am not sure what this book or resource implications were to be useful or helpful for--not for me. I skimmed through 7+ chapters, nothing helped, and it may be outdated since it was copyright in 2003; 21 years ago.