Breaking the Code of Project Management [Paperback]

This new classic is an examination of how to refigure project management to be more efficient and effective, particularly in terms of leadership. Using a case study approach, the author, Alex Laufer presents a specific set of guidelines on how to improve the team approach to any project, be it a new airline jet or an IT project.Introduction: The Real Story of Project Management: Results-focused Leadership The Green Principle, Plan and Control to Embrace Change The Brown Principle, Create a Results Oriented Focus The Yellow Principle, Develop a Will to Win The Red Principle, Collaborate Through Interdependence and Trust The Gray Principle, Update and Connect Through Intensive Communication Epilogue: Becoming a Results-focused Leader: From Geometric Order to Living Order

Many of us have been preaching for some years that thetraditional analytical tools of project management best exemplified byCPM scheduling, have tiny impact on project success and failure. It s actually all about the behavior and interactions of people. Dr. Laufer has brought into onebook an account of all the people factors, considered perhapsfor the first time as a whole system. The perceptions and scholarship are inspiring and the breadth ofsupporting data and opinion impressive. Getting alarge body of differently skilled and differently motivated people to work together to achieve a single goal whilst everybody is constantly assaulted by theunexpected is the real projectmanagement challenge. Thisbook will be a tremendous help to the profession in meetingthe challenge.

Dr. Martin Barnes, President, Association for Project Management; former Chairman, Council of the International Project Management Association

This is an extraordinary book and an exceptional resource for project managers. The experience I had in reading Breaking the Code was repeated flashes of That s it! A series of nuggets of wisdom that I would want to pass on to prot?g? project lSÃ