1st Edition
The Everyday Project Manager A Primer for Learning the Principles of Successful Project Management
Introduction Part One: What Is The Everyday Project Manager?
Introduction Part Two: Some Project Management Definitions
Phase 1: Project Start-up
Chapter 1: What are we doing here?: The Vision, Benefits and Objectives
Chapter 2: The trade-off: We offer three kinds of service
Chapter 3: Project scope: Defining the requirements
Chapter 4: Roles and Responsibilities: I’m putting the team back together for one last job
Phase 2: Design
Chapter 5: The best laid plans: Planning & estimating your project
Chapter 6: How much?!: Budgeting and Cost Management
Chapter 7: Control mechanisms: Setting up your Project Governance
Phase 3: Build & Execute
Chapter 8: Hell is other people: Managing the team
Phase 4: Project Closure & Lessons Learned
Chapter 9: Managing uncertainty: a brief introduction to risk management
Chapter 10: In extremis: how to manage difficult projects
Appendices
In summary: delivering a project in three pages
Key information for Every (Everyday) Project
Biography
Jeremy Nicholls has been an independent project management consultant for over ten years. In that time, he has delivered hundreds of projects across disciplines including IT, construction and business transformation. His exposure to multiple sectors left him convinced that it is the project management mindset, rather than sector-specific knowledge, that leads to successful project delivery. Nicholls has worked for a number of Blue Chip clients over the course of his career – each of them industry leaders – and has led projects within professions as diverse as legal, aviation and financial services. Despite working for prestigious clients, he has seen the whole spectrum of good and bad project delivery and learned many lessons the hard way as his career has progressed. He is currently working at Gatwick Airport – the world’s busiest single-runway airport – where he consults primarily on project governance and the best way to structure large-scale infrastructure delivery programs. He lives in South London with his wife and two children.
