Harvard Business Review Project Management Handbook: How to Launch, Lead, and Sponsor Successful Projects (HBR Handbooks)

The one primer you need to launch, lead, and sponsor successful projects.Were now living in the project economy. The number of projects initiated in all sectors has skyrocketed, and project management skills have become essential for every leader and manager. Still, project failure rates remain extremely high. Why? Leaders oversee too many projects and have too little visibility into them. Project managers struggle to translate their handson, technical knowledge up to senior management. The result? Worthy projects are starved of time and resources and fail to deliver benefits, while too much investment goes into the wrong projects. To compete in the project economy, you need to close this gap. The HBR Project Management Handbook shows you how.In this comprehensive guide, project management expert Antonio NietoRodriguez presents a new and simple framework that will increase any projects likelihood of success. Packed with case studies from many industries worldwide, it will teach you how to manage your organizations projects, strategic programs, and agile initiatives more effectively and push the best ones ahead to completion. Timeless yet forwardlooking, this book will help you win in the projectdriven world.In the HBR Project Management Handbook youll find: Everything you need to know about project management in practical, nontechnical language A definitive taxonomy of project types, from product launches to digital transformations to megaprojects A road map for becoming an effective project leader and executive sponsor A new, simple, and universal project framework, the Project Canvas, that breaks down any project into essential building blocks that can be easily understood by all project stakeholders Original concepts and exclusive case studies from public and privatesector organizations worldwideYoull learn: A common language for project managers and executives to run successful projects across your organization When to use agile, traditional, or hybrid methods in your projects The twelve principles of successful projects, including purpose, agility, and a focus on outcomes Techniques for selecting and advancing the best projects and managing a strategic and balanced project portfolio How todays projects will help address some of the most pressing global trends, including automation, sustainability, diversity, and crisis management Why project management needed to be reinvented and what the future holdsHBR Handbooks provide ambitious professionals with the frameworks, advice, and tools they need to excel in their careers. With stepbystep guidance, timehoned best practices, and reallife stories, each comprehensive volume helps you to stand out from the packwhatever your role.