11 April 2008

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April's Features in the Marketplace

Results Without Authority
by Tom Kendrick

How do you manage project deliverables when you have little or no formal authority over your project team?

Packed with invaluable guidance for controlling projects of all scopes and in any field, this book will help novice and experienced project leaders get the best from their project teams.

1. Learn proven techniques that a strong project leader can employ to keep projects and teams on track.
2. Explore a wide range of effective methods and tools for leading project teams.
3. Gain clear, insightful examples that work in a variety of situations.

Kendrick’s system will help you get successful results from diverse, cross-functional, virtual, outsourced and other types of project teams.

This book delivers proven techniques for controlling projects, managing teams and bringing projects to successful closure.

The concepts in this book are essential to all project managers, because they offer a productive alternative to "command and control" management techniques that can easily backfire.

PMI members can logon to eReads & Reference to preview Results Without Authority and hundreds of other project management titles.

PMI member price: US$18.95. Purchase this title online at the Marketplace.

Package Deal:
Reinventing Project Management: The Diamond Approach to Successful Growth and Innovation
by Aaron Shenhar & Dov Dvir

AND

Linking Project Management to Business Strategy
by Aaron Shenhar, Dragan Milosevic, Dov Dvir, Hans Thamhain

Based on an unprecedented study of more than 600 projects in businesses and organizations across the globe, Reinventing Project Management provides a new and highly adaptive model for managing projects to achieve superior business results.

Using this model as a framework, the researchers/authors took the next logical step to illustrate how project management can link directly to an organization’s growth strategy. Their findings are outlined in Linking Project Management to Business Strategy, which takes project management out of the tactical realm and transforms it into a strategic component of the organization.

Together, these books provide the blueprint to demonstrate that project management is indispensable for business results.

PMI member price: US$53.70. Purchase the package online at the Marketplace.

The PMI member price for Reinventing Project Management, when sold individually, is US$33.25. The member price for Linking Project Management to Business Strategy is US$29.95.