The Project Workout

Projects are an important strategic management tool and a way of life in every business. But how do you get started and ensure you realize the benefits you need? Now in its 5^th edition, the Project Workout is the definitive book on business-led project management. It is a valuable companion for every executive and project manager as well as a comprehensive resource for students of project management.

Projects are a way of life in every business and an important strategic management tool. But how do you ensure a project realizes the benefits you need? The Project Workout provides practical advice and techniques to direct and manage a project. Aimed at both project sponsors and project managers, it works through the life cycle of a project from initial idea to successful result. The practical approach is enhanced throughout with a series of "Workouts": exercises, techniques and checklists to help you put the book’s advice into practice. The Workouts are supported by an on-line resource of tools, including MS project views, project logs and templates. This expanded edition contains a wealth of new information, including how to work with standards and methods, such as ISO 21500, BS6079 and PRINCE2 and PMBoK.

The companion to this book, The Programme and Portfolio Workout, deals with directing and managing whole portfolios of projects, making sure everyone in your organization is working towards the same goals; together these books give you what you need to ensure all your projects succeed.

Robert Buttrick is a Visiting Teaching Fellow at the University of Warwick and an independent adviser on portfolio, programme and project management. Robert sits on the BSI committee MS2on the revised guide for project management and is a UK Principal Expert on the equivalent ISO technical committe, TC258.

As well as being the author of 'The Project Workout' and other books, Robert has worked in the most challeninging of environments, telecommunications, were he has been accountable for creating and running project-based frameworks and centres of excellence for managing change, involving the direction of portfolios of over 2500 projects with an annual spend in excess of ￡4bn ($7bn).