 | Results Without Authority: Controlling a Project When the Team Doesn't Report to You -- A Project Manager's Guide |
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Product Description
"Results Without Authority" explores a wide range of effective methods and tools project leaders can use when they have little or no formal authority over members of the project team. The book includes clear, insightful examples that demonstrate how to get exceptional results on any project, regardless of "who's the boss."
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #64482 in Books
- Published on: 2006-08-03
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: .76" h x 5.93" w x 9.14" l, .89 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 240 pages
Features
- ISBN13: 9780814473436
- Condition: New
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Editorial Reviews
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"Results without Authority stands out by methodically and thoroughly exploring the issue of control throughout the project life cycle….this practical project management reference brings together a lot of ideas and concepts worth considering for readers who are confronted with projects over which they have little to no formal authority."-Journal of Product Innovation Management
"...stands out by methodically and thoroughly exploring the issue of control throughout the project life cycle."
-Journal of Product Innovation Management
"…full of sound, practical, project management advice for carrying out IT and similar type projects…laced with the practical wisdom." -- Max's Project Management Wisdom
"This book is full of sound, practical, project management advice for carrying out IT and similar type projects. It is also laced with the practical wisdom that only comes from years of "Been there, done that.'" -- Max's Project Management Wisdom
"…important for all project managers, with and without authority… Packed with valuable guidance for controlling projects of all scopes and in any field." – PM Network
From the Back Cover
"As project managers, our essential struggle is to lead cross-functional initiatives through hierarchies and politics. I have often wished for a roadmap to guide myself and my team. Results Without Authority is that roadmap, and I plan to refer to it often." — Wendy M. Pfeiffer, Enterprise PMO Manager, YAHOO Inc.
"A must-read for project managers! Chocked full with pragmatic advice and detailed steps for leading projects successfully." — Craig Chatterton, General Manager, SupportSoft Inc.
When you're a project manager with a team of people who don't technically report to you, your challenge is to get Results Without Authority. This book delivers proven techniques for controlling projects and managing diverse teams in a wide variety of situations, and bringing those projects to successful closure. The concepts in this book are essential for all project managers, with and without authority, because they offer a productive alternative to "command and control" management techniques that can easily backfire. You will learn how to establish and build:
- Control Through Process.
- Control Through Influence.
- Control Through Project Metrics.
- Control with Project Initiation.
- Control Through Project Planning.
- Control Through Tracking and Monitoring.
- Control Through Project Closure.
Packed with invaluable guidance, this book will help novice and experienced project leaders get the best from their project teams.
Tom Kendrick is a program manager, most recently with the Hewlett-Packard Company, and the author of Identifying and Managing Project Risk and The Project Management Tool Kit. He conducts project management classes, and presents at conferences and universities on program management, project risk, and related topics.
About the Author
Tom Kendrick is a program manager, most recently with the Hewlett-Packard Company, and the author of Identifying and Managing Project Risk and The Project Management Tool Kit. He conducts project management classes, and presents at conferences and universities on program management, project risk, and related topics. He lives in San Carlos, California.
Customer Reviews
a readable project management book?
While I have a few project management reference books, it's rare to find a book on the topic that you can actually enjoy reading from cover to cover.
Results Without Authority covers a lot of ground, and there's something for every level of project manager. The book would serve well as a guideline for someone leading a new project management organization, or for someone who's been in the profession a while, but would like to refine their skills beyond what's done in their own organization.
I particularly enjoyed a section about how to build currency with your team -- how to start, and how to enhance it over time. The author has really done an astounding job of putting into words something I'd have a hard time describing, and he gives lots of great ideas that are much more rational and sustainable than the usual team-building exercises you still see at organizations.
One other interesting part was his detailed analysis of choosing the right metrics for the project -- a gap for many project managers. It's easiest to measure what we always measure than to make sure our measures are counterbalanced and take individual project issues into consideration.
Throughout the book, he keeps your attention with clear, concise writing and the occasional unexpected laugh. A great read.
This stuff works!
This stuff works! "Results without Authority" is a powerful source of tools and common sense advice for people managing projects without formal authority. And most of the projects I have managed and most of the projects I am aware of are managed by people without authority. Tom Kendrick brings a depth of wisdom that can only be learned in the trenches.
Kendrick weaves theory and practice to build a comprehensive set of tools, templates, and checklists that can be used by everyone from the newly appointed project manager to the steely veteran. This volume is the most practical, down-to-earth, treatment of managing without authority that I have ever read. And, it is a good read and an enjoyable read. "Results Without Authority" must be required reading for all project managers, whether they have authority or not. Read it today and start using it tomorrow.
Lots of insight
If Tom Sawyer had used this book, his friends would have done a far more than just whitewash a fence.
"Results without Authority" is just what most project people need to be successful. Projects where you control everyone are almost nonexistent. I have done project work for over a decade and this book was very helpful. The book contained so many insights that I used it as the basis for a 2 hour training session with my consulting group.
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