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INTRODUCING The Rational Project Manager: A Thinking Teams Guide to Getting Work Done

In today’s increasingly complex business environment, work is done in the form of projects. To be profitable and successful, an organization must complete its projects on time and on budget, while also meeting its goals. As a result, the art of project management is vital to business.

In the tradition of the phenomenal business bestseller The Rational Manager, this comprehensive guide explores and explains the rationale, processes, and tools of successful project management. While The Rational Project Manager covers the nuts and bolts of the discipline, it also offers a unique concentration on the logic and thought processes necessary for successful project completion.

The authors divide project management into three stages—definition, planning, and implementation— exploring each stage in depth and showing project managers and contributors how to apply concepts and avoid common mistakes. They also focus on the importance of a guiding rationale for orchestrating project activities. They propose that tools, techniques and software alone are insufficient and often too rigid to meet the demands of a given project. Instead, a thinking process or rationale is needed to inform and direct effective project work.

Practical, straightforward, and comprehensive, this one-of-a-kind resource is the bible for project managers everywhere. Offering unsurpassed insight on the methodology and critical thinking skills that form the cornerstone of any successful project, The Rational Project Manager helps get work done.