Accelerated Project Management: How to Be First to Market [Paperback]

James P. Lewis (Author), Louis Wong (Author), James Lewis (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 1, 2004

Speed-to-market is the most critical factor determining the success of new products. James Lewis and Louis Wong, one of today's most accomplished project management author teams, discuss often-overlooked principles that can make the difference in the never-ending race to be first and best. They give project managers, engineers, and top-level decision makers the needed tools and techniques to:

• Establish a solid and well-grounded vision
• Turn that vision into an actionable road map
• Implement platforms to support new processes

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"If the '80s were all about quality, and the '90s were about re-engineering, the 2000s will be about velocity. -Bill Gates, Microsoft"

From the Back Cover

Strategies for achieving first-to-market status with each new product

Project management excellence is essential if your organization is to gain the competitive edge that comes with being first to market.

Accelerated Project Management shows how you can reduce time on all your product development projects without adding unnecessary risk or cost. James P. Lewis and Louis Wong, two of today’s leaders in project management innovation, detail tools and techniques you can use to:

• Avoid the enemies of project speed, from excessive project size to poor planning, insufficient resources, and perfectionism
• Prioritize projects, creating a top-down sense of urgency and importance
• Establish an Innovation Project Office (IPO) to act as a key linkage between strategy and implementation, and provide early warning when projects are losing focus and control

Project leaders at top companies from Hewlett Packard to Cisco have discovered that to increase product development speed they must create clear product roadmaps, involve manufacturing in the process from square one, and eliminate rework through stringent quality standards and double-checks. Accelerated Project Management will show you how to adopt and improve upon these techniques in your organization, and dramatically increase project speed without sacrificing end-product quality in today’s high-stakes new product development race.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 208 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill; 1 edition (February 1, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0071423249
• ISBN-13: 978-0071423243
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.1 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,739,856 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

James P. Lewis, Ph.D., CIC is an experienced project manager, who teaches seminars on the subject throughout the world. His solid, no-nonsense approach is largely the result of the 15 years he spent in industry, working as an Electrical Engineer, engaged in the design and development of communication equipment. He held various positions, including Project Manager, Product Engineering Manager, and Chief Engineer, for Aerotron, Inc. and ITT Telecommunications, both of Raleigh, NC. He also was a Quality Manager for ITT Telecom, managing a department of 63 quality engineers, line inspectors, and test technicians.
Since 1980, Dr. Lewis has trained over 35,000 project managers. He is the author of 12 books on project management. He has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and a Ph.D. in Psychology, both from NC State University in Raleigh. He is a member of the Project Management Institute, and is also a certified Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument practitioner and a Certified Integral Coach(R).
He is president of The Lewis Institute, Inc., a training and consulting company specializing in project management, which he founded in 1981. His company provides a project management certificate program to NC State University's Office of Professional Development. He lives in Fairview, NC, near Asheville.