97 Things Every Project Manager Should Know

Preface; Permissions; How to Contact Us; Safari?? Books Online; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Get Users Involved As Early As Possible; Chapter 2: Avoid Whack-a-Mole Development; Chapter 3: A Word Can Make You Miss Your Deadline; Chapter 4: Make Project Sponsors Write Their Own Requirements; Chapter 5: Favor the Simple Over the Complex; Chapter 6: Pay Your Debts; Chapter 7: Add Talents, Not Skills, to Your Team; Chapter 8: Keep It Simple, Simon; Chapter 9: You Aren't Special; Chapter 10: Scrolling Through Time; Chapter 11: Save Money on Your Issues; Chapter 12: How to Spot a Good IT Developer; Chapter 13: Developer Productivity: Skilled Versus Average; Chapter 14: Size Matters; Chapter 15: Document Your Process, Then Make Sure It Is Followed; Chapter 16: Go Ahead, Throw That Practice Out; Chapter 17: Requirement Specifications: An Oxymoron; Chapter 18: Success Is Always Measured in Business Value; Chapter 19: Don't Skip Vacations for the Project; Chapter 20: Provide Regular Time to Focus; Chapter 21: Project Management Is Problem Management; Chapter 22: Empowering Developers: A Man Named Tim; Chapter 23: Clever Code Is Hard to Maintain; Chapter 24: Managing Human Factors in IT Project Management; Chapter 25: Use a Wiki; Chapter 26: The Missing Link; Chapter 27: Estimate, Estimate, Estimate; Chapter 28: Developers Unite???PMOs Are Advancing; Chapter 29: Value Results, Not Just Effort; Chapter 30: Software Failure Is Organizational Failure; Chapter 31: A Voice from the Other Side; Chapter 32: Keep Your Perspective; Chapter 33: How Do You Define "Finished"?; Chapter 34: The 60/60 Rule; Chapter 35: We Have Met the Enemy...and He Is Us; Chapter 36: Work in Cycles; Chapter 37: To Thine Own Self Be True; Chapter 38: Meetings Don't Write Code; Chapter 39: Chart a Course for Change; Chapter 40: IT Program Management: Shared Vision; Chapter 41: Planning for Reality; Chapter 42: The Fallacy of Perfect Execution; Chapter 43: Introduce a More Agile Communication System; Chapter 44: Don't Worship a Methodology; Chapter 45: Don't Throw Spreadsheets at People Issues; Chapter 46: One Deliverable, One Person; Chapter 47: The Fallacy of Perfect Knowledge; Chapter 48: Build Teams to Run Marathons, Not Sprints; Chapter 49: The Holy Trinity of Project Management; Chapter 50: Roadmaps: What Have We Done for You Lately?; Chapter 51: The Importance of the Project Scope Statement; Chapter 52: Align Vision and Expected Outcome; Chapter 53: Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore; Chapter 54: Avoiding Contract Disputes; Chapter 55: You Get What You Measure; Chapter 56: Don't Fall into the "Not Invented Here" Syndrome; Chapter 57: Favor the Now Over the Soon; Chapter 58: Speed Is Life; More Is Better; Chapter 59: Building the Morale on Your Team; Chapter 60: A Project Depends on Teamwork; Chapter 61: Serve Your Team; Chapter 62: The Fallacy of the Big Round Ball; Chapter 63: Responding to a Crisis; Chapter 64: Know Your Integration Points; Chapter 65: Aggressively Promote Communication in Distributed Projects; Chapter 66: Start with the End in Mind; Chapter 67: Clear Terms, Long Friendship!; Chapter 68: The Best Estimators: Those Who Do the Work; Chapter 69: Communicating Is Key; Chapter 70: A Project Is the Pursuit of a Solution; Chapter 71: It's the People, Stupid; Chapter 72: Documents Are a Means, Not an End; Chapter 73: Can Earned Value and Velocity Coexist on Reports?; Chapter 74: Scope Change Happens; Get Used to It; Chapter 75: Buying Ready-Made Software; Chapter 76: Project Sponsors???Good, Bad, and Ugly; Chapter 77: Should You Under-Promise, or Over-Deliver?; Chapter 78: Every Project Manager Is a Contract Administrator; Chapter 79: Important, but Not Urgent; Chapter 80: Teach the Process; Chapter 81: The Fallacy of Status; Chapter 82: What Do They Want to Hear, Anyway?; Chapter 83: Recognize the Value of Team Morale; Chapter 84: Engage Stakeholders All Through Project Life; Chapter 85: The Value of Planning; Chapter 86: Don't Always Be "The Messenger"; Chapter 87: Effectively Manage the Deliverables; Chapter 88: We Are Project Managers, Not Superheroes; Chapter 89: Increase Communication: Hold Frequent, Instant Meetings; Chapter 90: Flexibility Simplifies Project Management; Chapter 91: The Web Points the Way, for Now; Chapter 92: Developers Hate Status Reports, Managers Love Them; Chapter 93: You Are Not in Control; Chapter 94: Share the Vision; Chapter 95: True Success Comes with a Supporting Organization; Chapter 96: Establish Project Management Governance; Chapter 97: 9.7 Reasons I Hate Your Website; Contributors; Colophon;