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Avoiding the OS Phase®Simple Strategies for Predictive Project Management
Published by Warwick House November 2006
Table of Contents
Defining the OS Phase |
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| Airplanes and Project Management (click for excerpt online) |
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| Experiencing the OS Phase - Not a Resume Builder (click for excerpt online) |
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Chapter 3 |
Cleaning Up After the OS Phase Strikes |
Understanding the OS Phase |
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Chapter 4 |
That's Not the Problem.... This is the Problem! |
Chapter 5 |
Managing the Stuff |
Chapter 6 |
Changing Current Wisdom |
Chapter 7 |
Capturing the Right Stuff |
Chapter 8 |
The Objective to Understand Objectives |
Chapter 9 |
Objectives Burnout |
Chapter 10 |
Finding the Magic Pill |
Chapter 11 |
It's Customary to Say Everything is Fine! |
Avoiding the OS Phase |
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| Chapter 12 | The Relentless Pursuit of Scope |
| Chapter 13 | Defining Roles and Responsibilities |
| Chapter 14 | Who Do I Really Work For? |
| Chapter 15 | Risk...The 4-Letter Word That Scares the Bajeepers Out of Executive Management |
| Chapter 16 | Exactly How Do You Plan to Execute the Project? |
| Chapter 17 | You Want It Done...When? The Lighter Side of Managing a Critical Path Schedule |
| Chapter 18 | What Story Does Your Schedule Tell? |
| Chapter 19 | An Estimate is Just an Estimate |
Chapter 20 |
Managing Behavior - Someone Has to Do It! |
Chapter 21 |
In Search of the Perfect Project Manager |
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A World Without the OS Phase |
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| Chapter 22 | Understanding the Processes of Project Management |
| Chapter 23 | Welcome to the P.O.T.P Convention |
| Chapter 24 | It's All About Data! Pass It On! |
| Chapter 25 | The Attributes of a Great Project Management Organization |
| Chapter 26 | Tracked, Discussed, But Never Managed... the Real Life Cycle of Risk Management |
| Chapter 27 | Avoidance Metrics |
| Chapter 28 | Understanding Earned Value Management |
| Chapter 29 | Avoiding That Déjà vu Feeling |
| Chapter 30 | Managing Vendors |
| Chapter 31 | Strategic Chief Projects Officer |
| Chapter 32 | Multiple Projects |
| Chapter 33 | Rewriting History - the Unpleasant Saga of Re-baselining |
Chapter 34 |
Are You Doing What You Said? |
The Organization in Crisis - The OS Phase Expanded |
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| Chapter 35 | Organization-wide Implications |
| Chapter 36 | Reaching Maturity in Project Management |
| Epilogue | |