If It Ain’t Broke, Fix It Anyway : Tools to Build Indestructible Projects with Enduring Results (Paperback)

"Projects are volatile endeavors filled with numerous uncertainties, dependencies, contingencies, and risks--not to mention the personalities and competing interests; they require a lot of attention and enhancement! It's time to shift out of cruise control and start driving our projects toward their intended business objectives. Organizations that remain competitive are the ones making smart business decisions on how they invest their money in strategic initiatives (i.e., projects) and how they manage, adjust, and enhance those project investments until the desired business returns are realized. This book shows how to optimize project management to ensure strategic investments generate their intended results. Anyone involved in the end-to-end delivery of project investments--from project ideation to business improvement to benefit realization--should consider this book a must read"-- Projects are volatile endeavors filled with uncertainties, dependencies, contingencies, and risks. They require not only strategic, business-focused leadership to drive results, but also nimble and adaptive approaches in the face of increasing business uncertainty. Projects that limp along without the required adjustments and improvements suck the lifeblood out of companies. In this competitive new world economy, our project management mantra must shift from "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" to If It Ain't Broke, Fix It Anyway. This insightful and entertaining book will teach readers to be business savvy strategic corporate thinkers and planners, strong and practical project managers and leaders, and effective problem solvers and change agents focused on the bottom line. Key Features: --Equips project managers and business professionals with the skills and knowledge required to deliver business value to their organizations from their project investments --Instructs professionals on how to become nimble and adaptive in the face of business and economic uncertainty to drive and continuously improve their projects to achieve maximum returns --Presents a structured approach to incorporating strategic and quantitative methods to achieve, and even exceed, forecasted business objectives --Provides the tools and techniques necessary to become business improvement change agents and project turnaround specialists --WAV offers downloadable RASCI Matrix, Business Case, Benefits Realization Plan, and Cash Flow Model templates and a Strategic Project Management Checklist to help users maximize results--available from the Web Added Value(TM) Download Resource Center at www.jrosspub.com