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This book is dedicated to Ronald H. Newton 19262011
I would like to thank all the people who have taken the time to review and feedback to me on the first edition of this book, and on any of the other books I have written. Your comments, thoughts and ideas are always appreciated.
Richard Newton is a consultant, author and speaker. He has been working on project teams, as a project manager or sponsor for almost 30 years. He has written 16 books and is a regular speaker at seminars. The common theme across all his work is a deep interest in how individuals, teams and organisations get things done. He is an advocate and practitioner of simple but robust approaches to delivering projects.
Richard currently runs two businesses: his consultancy Enixus, which provides support and coaching for organisations undertaking large projects and transformations, and Enixus Development, which supports capability development and provides business games in the areas of projects and change management including one based on the process described in this book.
The first edition of this book was published in 2006, having been written in 2005. As I finish this second edition it is 2016. The first edition of the book continued to be popular across a decade, yet it was getting a little long in the tooth. Nowadays, a decade is a long life for a single edition of a professional book. I was lucky to have chosen to write a book that described the fundamentals of project management, which remain relatively timeless. The types of projects may have changed, but the best ways to get things done endures.
So why the update? After 10 years, the concepts and language of business, organisations and society have moved on. Reading a book written 10 years ago makes you realise quite how much! A few examples felt dated. More specifically, the progression in thinking has been significant in project management as typified by the emergence of Agile.
At its heart this book remains the same. It presents a simple, robust and proven approach to delivering projects, albeit refreshed and brought up to date. Apart from updating terminology there are minor changes throughout the book. Most of the examples and case studies have been revised.
I have written this version for the same four audiences who liked the first edition so much. First, it is for project managers looking for a useful, well tested way of delivering small- to medium-scale projects. Second, it is for other professionals looking for a straightforward process to control something more complex than they have led before, but without the resources to hire a professional project manager. Third, it is for organisations and project management offices (PMOs) looking for a language and a common approach that can be applied to a wide range of projects.
I have had a lot of feedback from a fourth audience. This audience is typified by students who are trying to get their head around project management before diving into the deeper end of more advanced project management tools and techniques. It also includes those who want to move into a professional project management career and use this book as a way of dipping their toes into the water.
If you are in this fourth audience I have added some specific contents for you. I have included a short extra section at the end of each chapter called Taking it further, which includes some thoughts on what else you could learn along with some references. I have also significantly enhanced and extended the glossary to include many common project management terms which are useful to know. This isnt because the book is not complete. It is, and you can manage a project using this approach and nothing else. But I accept you may want or need to go further and I want to help you to do this.
As always, I am happy to engage with readers of my books if there are points you want to discuss. Perhaps your feedback may help me shape a third edition some time in 2026 or beyond.
We start with two bits of good news:
- In most situations, project management is straightforward and you can do it!
- By applying the techniques you learn in this book, you will significantly improve your chances of successfully delivering projects.
If you read this book, learn and practise the approach described within it, and apply it with some common sense, you will be able to:
- Manage and deliver more complex projects than you can currently without exhausting yourself or becoming overly stressed.
- Apply the principles to your personal life and find yourself completing everyday tasks more reliably.
- Come across to others you work with as competent and professional in completing your project (no headless chickens here!).
- Talk to, manage and get the best from other project managers.
Project management, like most specialist disciplines, grows in complexity all the time. It has its own jargon, approaches, professional qualifications and societies. But you do not need all of this for most tasks. The specialist approaches are just that, specialist approaches that are powerful and useful in special situations. Most times you do not need them.
This book explains the essentials of project management in a simple way but do not confuse simple with dumb or basic. Think of it more as straightforward and practical. This book leaves out the esoteric and highly specialised parts of project management, not because they are too complex, but because in 90 per cent of situations, you dont need them.
If you are about to start building a new high-speed railway line, sending a satellite into space or developing computer software to control all the traffic flows in a country, then yes, you do need advanced project management skills. You will need more methods, tools and skills than are explained in this book. But most tasks are not like this. There are lots of tasks that have sufficient complexity for you to worry about, that you will not be able to ensure they are completed successfully without some structure and tools, but for which the structure and tools can be simple, robust, practical and easy to use and yet still add huge value.
Sounds familiar? Matches your need? Then you have come to the right place.
This is a book for anybody who is about to start, or who has just started, on a task that is somewhat bigger and more complex than they are used to. You may know this is a project, or you may just be realising that your normal approach of scrawling a hurried list of things to do on a piece of scrap paper to act as a memory jogger is not quite enough to make sure you get this task done.
You may have been given a project by your boss or you may be an entrepreneur creating your own projects. The project may be a conventional business project, such as launching a new product, opening a new branch or improving the way something is done. However, it may be that youre embarking on something self-initiated and non-work-related such as building a new house. The list of possible projects is endless. The common thing about these tasks is that they are complex, important and when you start, full of unknowns.
You want to complete the task successfully, and you want to do so while looking competent and professional. What you dont have is the time, inclination or money to hire or become a professional project manager. Dont worry this book will show you that in many cases this is not necessary, because project management is straightforward .
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