A Practical Guide to Building Organizational Competency in Project Management
Authored by Karen G. Tate, PMP

Spiral bound
8.5" X 11"
122 pages
ISBN 0-9760834-1-8

Why should you care about projects?

Because everything that is new or improved in an organization happens through projects. The effectiveness of your portfolio of projects drives your organization's ability to add new products and services, expand its capacity to deliver existing products / services, improve organizational functioning, meet regulatory, safety and environmental requirements and improve business process efficiency.

It is through projects that you reduce your time to market and churn out more products, processes, and services - faster, improving productivity and reducing costs. It is through projects that your strategic plan is turned into reality. Projects provide increased growth and increased profits.

Should you be concerned about how well the projects in your organization are performing? You bet you should.

If you want to know what to do to reduce time to market, if you're trying to move up the CMM (Capability Maturity Model) ladder, and if your projects aren't producing the results you'd like, this guide for executives will give you the information you need for greater success

7 Keys to Project Success:
1. Commit to Project System
2. Use Project Management on all Projects
3. Establish Project Sponsors
4. Create a Project Steering Process
5. Align Horizontally
6. Apply the New Accountability
7. Optimize each Technical Process

Karen G. Tate, PMP co-author of The Project Management Memory Jogger™, the best selling step-by-step guide to project management, has distilled the essence of improving overall project performance into 7 keys to Executive Leadership in Project Management.

Each key is divided into seven, easy to follow steps. Just start at the beginning and work through the seven keys and your organization will soar to new levels of performance.