Accelerated Project Management: How To Be The First To Market

Download or read book Accelerated Project Management: How To Be The First To Market written by Lewis and published by Tata McGraw-Hill Education. This book was released on 2005-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accelerated Project Management shows how you can reduce time on all your product development projects without adding unnecessary risk or cost. James P. Lewis and Louis Wong, two of today s leaders in project management innovation, detail tools and techniques you can use to: Avoid the enemies of project speed, from excessive project size to poor planning, insufficient resources, and perfectionism Prioritize projects, creating a top-down sense of urgency and importance Establish an Innovation Project Office (IPO) to act as a key linkage between strategy and implementation, and provide early warning when projects are losing focus and control Project leaders at top companies from Hewlett Packard to Cisco have discovered that to increase product development speed they must create clear product roadmaps, involve manufacturing in the process from square one, and eliminate rework through stringent quality standards and double-checks. Accelerated Project Management will show you how to adopt and improve upon these techniques in your organization, and dramatically increase project speed without sacrificing end-product quality in today s high-stakes new product development race.