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"Leading companies that are positioning themselves for the future rather than the present are asking the project managers to participate in project selection, scoping, and estimation as well as management. Delivering Exceptional Project Results offers a glimpse into the future role of the project manager. If your company believes that project failure is an option, then perhaps you should not read this book."
Harold Kerzner, Ph.D. Best-selling Author, Professor Emeritus, Baldwin-Wallace College
"I really enjoyed reading this book. The chapters, full of valuable insights well beyond the typical project management presentations, are introduced with diverse and engaging historic case examples. Executives faced with project portfolio management, or who are venturing into the area for the first time, will find the latter part of the book particularly valuable as new solutions are offered for those seemingly intractable problems of project portfolio management."
R. Max Wideman, PMI Fellow AEW Services and Management Consulting
"Delivering Exceptional Project Results" is a definite must read for any executive, functional director or project manager. The author clearly demonstrates how to deliver successful products and services by employing proper project selection, scoping and management techniques. This book provides you with practical, hands-on tools and techniques that can be deployed on your own projects right away."
Matt Walters, Director of Technology, Tyze Personal Networks
Key Features
Defines the three pillars of project portfolio management and examines the portfolio management methods used by industry leaders, followers and laggards to justify their validity
Explains best practices for assessing project value, categorizing and prioritizing projects, balancing portfolio mix, determining and managing project pipeline throughput capacity, and strategic alignment to maximize results and minimize risks
Covers project scoping, negotiation and planning, estimation, monitoring and control, the role of creativity, and the value of lessons learned documents using numerous real-world examples within a business context and from an entertaining historical perspective
Offers six downloadable templates for project charters, plans, meeting minutes, change requests, status reports, and lessons learned reports.
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I really enjoyed reading this book. The chapters, full of valuable insights well beyond the typical project management presentations, are introduced with diverse and engaging historic case examples. Executives will find the latter part of the book particularly valuable as new solutions are offered for those seemingly intractable problems within project portfolio management. --R. Max Wideman, Fellow PMI, AEW Services and Management Consulting, from the prologue
Delivering Exceptional Project Results is a definite must read for any executive, functional director or project manager. The author clearly demonstrates how to deliver successful products and services by employing proper project selection, scoping and management techniques. This book provides you with practical, hands-on tools and techniques that can be deployed on your own projects right away. --Matt Walters, Director of Technology, Tyze Personal Networks
From the Author
I hope that, after reading this book, junior project managers and technical team members will feel compelled to share it with their superiors so that these superiors can learn how to select projects properly and gain an understanding of the daily challenges faced by project managers. It is also hoped that senior managers who read this book will realize that there are still some improvements to be made to their project management practices and will pass this book on to their subordinates. Enjoy! Jamal Moustafaev
Jamal Moustafaev, MBA, PMP - president and founder of Thinktank Consulting, is an internationally acclaimed expert and speaker in the areas of project/portfolio management, scope definition, requirements analysis, process improvement and corporate training. He has done work for private-sector companies and government organizations in Canada and the US.
Mr. Moustafaev is an author of the book titled "Delivering Exceptional Project Results: A Practical Guide to Project Selection, Scoping, Estimation and Management" (published by J. Ross Publishing in September 2010). He is also a contributor to various project management publications including Project Management Institute (PMI) and "Project Times". He is also a frequent speaker at Project World, Business Analyst World and Society of PM Professionals conferences.
In addition to teaching a highly acclaimed "Project Management Essentials" course at British Columbia Institute of Technology, Jamal also offers the following corporate seminars through his company:
-------> "Practical Portfolio Management - Selecting & Managing The Right Projects" -------> "Successful Hands-On Management of IT and Software Projects" -------> "Successful Hands-On Management of Modern-Day Projects" -------> "From Waterfall to Agile - Practical Requirements Engineering"
Mr. Moustafaev holds a PMP certification, an MBA in Finance (Derivative Securities) and a BBA (Finance and Management Science) from Simon Fraser University.
For further information, please contact:
Jamal Moustafaev BBA, MBA, PMP President and CEO Thinktank Consulting Inc. Phone - 1-778-995-4396 E-mail - info@thinktankconsulting.ca Website - www.thinktankconsulting.ca
As a senior program/portfolio manager who has to deal with the issues outlined in this book, I think every executive out there must be required to read this book for three reasons:
- In order to understand why project management is a strategic capability for almost every organization - To appreciate the challenges and difficulties faced by the project managers - And to understand that even the best technical teams led by the best PMs will not deliver great project results if (a) bad product ideas were selected for implementation in the first place and (b) the organizations take on more projects than they could handle
What's I also liked about this book is the fashion in which it's delivered: the real-world stories and dialogues, historical anecdotes the author's subtle sense of humor to both illustrate the key points and make them more memorable.
I honestly think this is one of the most revolutionary breakthroughs in the project/portfolio management field in the last couple of decades. This entire book is based on three extremely simple (in hindsight) principles:
1. In order to deliver great projects the company must select the most promising ideas 2. In order to deliver great projects the company must ensure that the number of projects does not exceed its throughput capacity 3. In order to deliver great projects the company must have a good grasp of scoping, estimation and other project management techniques
Once the reader agrees with these three axioms (and who wouldn't!), the author takes you through the step-by-step journey on how to select the best projects for your company to implement and how to run them properly.
The book includes the following chapters:
Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: What Is Project Management and Do You Really Need It? Chapter 3: Things You Probably Didn't Know about Estimation Chapter 4: Are We Supposed to Negotiate on Projects? Chapter 5: How and Why Do We Write Project Charters Chapter 6: Kick-Starting Your Projects - The Scope Definition Perspective Chapter 7: Defining the Detailed Scope - How and Where Do You Find Requirements? Chapter 8: Who Needs Creativity in Projects and How to Cultivate It Chapter 9: How to Incorporate Scope Definition into Project Management Chapter 10: How to Write a Great Project Plan Chapter 11: How to Troubleshoot Scope Problems Chapter 12: Who Needs Walkthroughs, Inspections and Peer Reviews Chapter 13: Why Should You Manage Scope and Customer Expectations? Chapter 14: Why Invest Time and Effort in the Lessons Learned Document? Chapter 15: How to Select the Best Projects Chapter 16: How and Why Do You Need to Maximize Portfolio Value? Chapter 17: How and Why Do You Need to Balance Your Portfolio? Chapter 18: How and Why Do You Need to Link Portfolio to Strategy? Chapter 19: How to Implement It All
Chapters 3 to 14 deal with project management topics, Chapters 1, 2 and 15-19 would be of definite interest to senior management and C-level people.
So far project management and portfolio management have been considered separately, as two fields independent of one another. What I think Mr. Moustafaev managed to accomplish quite spectacularly in his book is to show that you can't have one without the other.
In other words a mediocre idea implemented on time and on budget, will still result in a bad product. On the other hand, if a great project initiative falls into the hands of untrained project manager, the result would probably be as disastrous as in the first scenario.
