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    Project Soup: Recipes for Managing to Success
    Project Soup: Recipes for Managing to Success
    Project Soup: Recipes for Managing to Success
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    Project Soup: Recipes for Managing to Success

    By Robert Prinzo

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    Project management is much like making a soup. And just as there are many recipes for chicken soup, there are many project management methodologies available. However, the reality is that project management methodologies are similar to the homemade soup recipes passed on from generation to generation in that each project is different because each organizations and environment are unique. As a project manager, or the Chef, you are always making a different recipe in a different kitchen, but expected to provide the same outcomeâ a successful project or delicious bowl of soup.

    So that is what this book is: it is a series of step by step articles and essays (a.k.a. recipes) that outline the steps involved in resolving a variety of situations that you may encounter on your project. These recipes include:

    * Seven Steps for Assessing any Business Situation
    * How to Establish a Project Blue Print
    * Developing a Plan to Identify Quick Wins
    * Defining a Project Success
    * Best Practices for Software Implementation Success
    * Tips for Communicating with Executives
    * Creating Successful Procurement Conferences
    * Determining End User Skill Sets
    * A Framework for Software Customization Decisions
    * How to Prepare for the 'Marathon Project'
    * Managing Risk, Volatility and the Inflection Point
    * How to Build Stakeholder Consensus

    If you are looking for a complicated step by step approach for planning and managing projects containing charts, graphs, pictures and complex diagrams, then this is not the book for you. If you are looking for an easy to read book that provides tips and techniques in easily relatable, digestible nuggets; then you are in the right place.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublishereBookIt.com
    Release dateApr 26, 2016
    ISBN9780983033578
    Project Soup: Recipes for Managing to Success

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      Book preview

      Project Soup - Robert Prinzo

      Decisions

      Project Soup:

      Recipes for Managing to Success

      Rob Prinzo

      Copyright © 2013 Rob Prinzo

      All rights reserved.

      ISBN: 0983033579

      ISBN-13: 978-0-9830335-7 - 8

      Dedication

      For C, K & T

      Introduction

      I am not a very good cook, but I can follow a recipe. Sometimes what I make tastes good, sometimes it does not. Like most people, I do not like investing a lot of time preparing a meal that does not taste good and leaves me unsatisfied.

      But I like soup.

      It does not much simpler than opening the can, finding a clean pot, turning on th e stove and waiting until it is warm enough to eat. Low risk, high reward and ever so predictable - who could ask for anything more.

      I also like metaphors. As a project manager and software implementation consultant, I have found the best ways to communicate with clients, project team members and business partners is through metaphors. Taking a new or a complex idea and relating it something that people can identify with , increases understanding and reduces the fear of the unknown through familiarization. Metaphors make the complex simple. In addition, breaking down a complex process into a series of steps, like a recipe, provides an easy to follow guide that serves as a repeatable process for solving business problems.

      So that is what this book is: it is a series of step by step articles and essays (a.k.a. recipes) that outline the steps involved in resolving a variety of situations that you may encounter on your project. Some of the recipes involve metaphors, others do not.

      If you are looking for a complicated step by step approach for planning and managing projects containing charts, graphs, pictures and complex diagrams, then this is not the book for you. If you are looking for an easy to read book that provides tips and techniques in easily relatable, digestible nuggets ; then you are in the right place.

      So, come on in and sit down. Soup's on!

      Table of Contents

      Introduction

      Table of Contents

      Soup: The Perfect Metaphor for Project Management

      Recipe #1: Seven Steps to Assessing any Business Situation

      Recipe #2: Establishing a Project Blue Print

      Recipe #3: How to Develop a Plan to Identify Quick Wins

      Recipe #4: Defining a Project Success

      Recipe #5: Six Best Practices for Software Implementation Success

      Recipe #6: Quick Tips for Communicating with Executives

      Recipe #7: Creating Successful Bidder’s Conferences

      Recipe #8: Determining End User Skill Sets

      Recipe #9: A Framework for Software Customization Decisions

      Recipe #10: Preparing for the ‘Marathon Project’

      Recipe #11: Risk, Volatility and the Inflection Point

      Recipe #12: Four Steps for Building Stakeholder Consensus

      References

      About the Author

      Soup: The Perfect Metaphor for Project Management

      I do not like investing a lot of time preparing a meal that does not taste good and leaves me unsatisfied. Sound familiar? Sounds like what an executive may say when an important project fails to meet its objectives. A failed project or a project that does not live up to expectations leaves a foul taste in your mouth and an unsatisfied feeling similar to a bad meal. And after the check has been

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