Going Beyond the Waterfall

Managing Scope Effectively Across the Project Life Cycle

By: Barbara Davis

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Hardcover | 30 June 2014

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288 Pages

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Every year technology projects face hard decisions about how to mitigate risk and address challenges as teams work on creating useful solutions to deliver promised business value. Those decisions impact scope at every step and help to evolve it until the final product is delivered and implemented. Scope can longer be set in stone!This book will help project teams understand how and when scope changes and evolves as a part of a living-development process by answering the ultimate question: "Are we doing the right things the right way?" Going Beyond the Waterfall explains how to define scope at the outset of a project. It provides a solid model for predicting and managing solution scope across a project life cycle where the decisions and actions of every team member contribute to that evolutionary process. In addition, it identifies the impacts that key tasks and activities will have on scope and how each can be managed effectively to prevent unnecessary scope creep and reduce run-away projects.

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"...the authors provide very sound and realistic advice for the types of projects envisaged, not necessarily only IT projects. For readers in senior positions, the book provides a good read and actionable advice and templates for advancing the cause of the enterprise at its upper levels. After all, as the authors observe, 'The next decade of digital business will see continued pressure for organizations to react quickly to changing conditions in the economy, market, and competition'." -R. Max Wideman, Fellow, PMI; "I've seen too many projects fail due to poorly defined and ill-managed scope. Going Beyond the Waterfall shares the best tools, techniques, and approaches to ensure you undertake just the actions that will deliver the intended value; nothing more, nothing less. This is a must read!" -Haydn Thomas, Vice President, Mindavation; "A project manager will have at least a 50% greater chance of leading a successful project after studying the insights into scientific scope management mentioned in this book. I would encourage my fellow PMP(R) professionals to have a copy of Going Beyond the Waterfall on their bookshelf right next to the PMBOK(R) Guide -Mark Price Perry, Senior Vice President, BOT International

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