Reinventing Project Management: The Diamond Approach to Successful Growth & Innovation

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Reinventing Project Management: The Diamond Approach to Successful Growth & Innovation
by Aaron J. Shenhar, Dov Dvir
from Harvard Business School Press

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• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• Blanco-Review-06-08
  Excellente Book. For every body ineterested in this subject or related with project management should read it. I really recommend it.

• A guide to managing your projects
  Most projects fail because conventional project management concepts cannot adapt to today's dynamic business environment. This book, which is based on many case studies, provides a new and highly adaptive model for planning and managing projects. Aaron J. Shenhar and Dov Dvir explain how to use their "Diamond Framework" to understand the nature of your projects, and diagnose the gaps between your current capabilities and what you need to do to make your projects succeed. Their flexible model provides... more info

• Technical Guide with good ideas
  Reinventing Project Management is a highly technical guide to Project management in a large organization. The scope of the book assumes that projects can be parsed to fine degree and that the organization would be able to organize within the resulting focus. My experience is that this kind of analysis exceeds the tolerances of most organizations and that employees that get the point of this kind of framework are frustrated when working with those that do not.
  The book has a lot of useful material in... more info

• A very useful model for seeing the gaps and risks in a project.
  The authors explain that the usual linear description of project management is not only out of step with modern projects, it also doesn't provide any insight of the risks involved in the project. The Diamond model presented in this book uses a four axis graph that captures the level of Novelty, Technology, Complexity and Pace required by the project. Diamond comes from the shape of the graph if each of these four factors is in the middle. However they almost never are all middling. You are supposed to graph... more info

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