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Have you found yourself asking this question in the face of a challenged or failing project? Often, the answer can be traced back to a poor decision, an untimely decision, or the absence of a decision somewhere in the course of the project. If you re ready to get your next project on the path to success, The Project Manager's Guide to Making Successful Decisions will show you how.
This practical guide helps project managers and their teams become better decision-makers by focusing on the key issues associated with decision-making. You will learn how to frame the decision, gather information, close the decision, get approval within the organization, and start implementing.
-Understand how successful decision-making contributes to project success
-Learn how to make the decisions required for successful management of complex, large-scale projects
-Discover techniques that facilitate the decision-making process
-Understand decision analysis as it relates to project management
You will also benefit from real-world decision-making vignettes and case studies that demonstrate how a project manager's decisions are instrumental in a project's success.
About the Author
Dennis Buede, PhD, is president of Innovative Decisions, Inc. He was formerly a professor at Stevens Institute of Technology and George Mason University. He has a PhD and an MS in engineering-economic systems from Stanford University. Dr. Buede has written two other books on decision-making: The Engineering Design of Systems and Decision Synthesis: The Principles and Practice of Decision Analysis.
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