Guerrilla Project Management

TAKE CONTROL of TROUBLED IT PROJECTS. According to the CHAOS Report, a widely cited industry study from the Standish Group, more than two-thirds of IT projects either fail outright or leave stakeholders disappointed. However, a lesser-known statistic from the Center for Business Practices is that organizations which use a standardized recovery process experience an 83% higher success rate than those which do not. In other words, INTERVENTION WORKS. And that's exactly what Guerrilla Project Management (GPM) is - an intervention strategy for troubled IT projects. Recognizing a strong demand for project recovery services, Shane A. Hills, PMP, wrote Guerrilla Project Management as a 40-page "airplane read" designed to cut to the jugular and empower you with an immediate action plan. The author uses the booklet as a handout when speaking on the subject of rescuing troubled IT projects. GPM empowers your organization to 1) Identify and mitigate risk and exposure; 2) Rapidly assess the viability of your project; 3) Restore order, clarity and direction; 4) Eliminate the project's roadblocks; 5) Expedite the delivery of high-priority functionality; 6) Achieve fast results using a streamlined process; 7) Inspire confidence with a highly visible leadership initiative; and 8) Greatly reduce the likelihood of project failure. Popular sections include "The Top 25 Reasons for IT Project Failure," "Why Most Turnaround Attempts Fail," and "The Guerrilla Justification Criteria." Find all of this and much more, including process flow diagrams, in the book.