How Not to Fail at Projects: Stopping the Project Management Insanity Spiral [Hardcover]

1. The First Sanity CheckHow and When to Appoint a Project Manager 2. The Second Sanity CheckComprehension of Why a Project Is Needed 3. The Third Sanity CheckUnderstanding of the Unknown 4. The Fourth Sanity CheckCapturing Who Needs What 5. The Fifth Sanity CheckWho Does What 6. The Sixth Sanity CheckOutside Assistance 7. The Seventh Sanity CheckEngaging the Efforts of Others

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This book aims to analyze the reasons for failure in project management. It is filled with stories, anecdotes and satires that highlight how organizations and project managers fall into an insanity spiral. It provides Sanity Checks designed to keep project managers from repeating the same mistakes and to help them become project champions.

Claude H. Maley is the founder of Mit Consultants and a Senior Management & Education Consultant, having started his career as a Systems Engineer with IBM, following reading Estate Management and Building Construction Engineering at the London School of Building. Claude has held senior positions with and for international organisations and companies in organizational management, programme and project management, and sales and marketing.

They say that repeating the same thing and expecting a different result is insanity. This book aims to analyze the reasons for failure in project management. It is filled with stories, anecdotes and satires that highlight how organizations and project managers fall into an insanity spiral. It provides seven Sanity Checks designed to keep project managers from repeating the same mistakes and to help them become project champions:

1. The first sanity check is how and when to appoint a project manager. This first sanity check may be familiar and may well bring back memories of starting a career in project management.
2. The second sanity check is the comprehension of lÃj