Many books and research papers have been published on a range of business change topics. In the main they focus on project management methodologies including hints and tips on how to deliver a change project. Although some of these publications do touch on the topic of what can cause projects to fail, they rarely cover all aspects of why failure occurs or more importantly how failure can be cured, or avoided.
So what’s different about this book? For a start it’s based on the author’s many years spent at the rock face, not just delivering a wide variety of business change projects in the UK and overseas, but also troubleshooting and rescuing the ones that did hit the rocks and were about to sink. Project rescue has been achieved by a using his skills and experience and working alongside a project team to resolve problem areas and drive out a successful outcome. His combination of expertise and hands-on experience gives him the ability to not only recognise what conditions, usually more than one of them, cause a project to fail……. but more importantly what has to be done practically to cure such a project’s ills.
His know-how is condensed into this book which is written in a concise style that makes it easy to assimilate, lets you get to the subject quickly and lays out the key points for possible project failure and the associated curse.
Because it’s easy to dip into, the book can also be used as a check list for a project manager to make sure they are covering all angles of potential failure before the project begins – thus helping to avoid failure in the first place.