103 Rules forProject Leaders

Plenty of projects reach 'nearly finished' on time. The expensive part is the distance from there to the first ordinary day when the people receiving the result can use it without ringing anyone who built it, which is where the budget, the patience and the original date tend to run out.

103 Rules for Project Leaders is for anyone accountable for getting a defined piece of work delivered, whatever their job title. In short, practical chapters it follows a project from start to finish: the problem behind the request, a scope that survives its first workshop, estimates that don't harden into promises by accident, steering groups that decide things, status reports a sponsor can act on, suppliers, late projects, and the handover that turns a launch into a result.