San Diego-based project consultant Clinton Padgett offers a step-by-step how-to guide on managing a project from idea to completion.
How important is careful stewardship of a project? Consider an enterprise the reviewer was deeply engaged in three years ago —- a $10 million project to create an ultra-modern digital television studio. The project manager resisted all efforts to even create a spreadsheet so everyone involved could follow the acquisition and assembly of systems. He would smile, point to his head and say “it’s all in here.”
The folly of such a non-system became apparent after we had started broadcasting from the new studio and endured multiple equipment failures.
The CEO replaced the project manager and one of the first actions the new man took was to return $70,000 in equipment for which no use was evident. No question even a rudimentary system would have shown at least some of the items were not needed.
The book says 10,000 projects in 25 nations have been completely successfully using the Project Success Method.
Too bad our station was not one of them.
Besides reading the book, you can learn more about the the Project Success Method by going online to:
http://www.projectsuccess.com/