Project Management Handbook — Third Edition 📘

Projects don’t succeed simply because people work hard.

They succeed when the work is defined, planned, organized, communicated, executed, and followed through.

I’m pleased to share the updated Project Management Handbook, part of the Operational Excellence Series.

The handbook uses a straightforward seven-step approach called Project Management for Success:

🔹 Set-up the Project

🔹 Understand the Requirements

🔹 Create the Team

🔹 Construct the Plan

🔹 Execute the Plan

🔹 Sign-off and Close the Project

🔹 Salute the Team

The book covers practical project-management tools and techniques including project charters, requirements, stakeholder management, RACI matrices, work breakdown structures, schedules, risk and change management, issues, quality, procurement, financial reporting, status reporting, lessons learned, team development, conflict resolution, consensus building, SMART goals, brainstorming, and more.

The goal isn’t to make project management complicated.

It’s to provide enough structure and discipline to help teams successfully deliver results.

📘 Project Management Handbook

Operational Excellence Series

Rod Baxter