AUTHOR: Doug Russell
STARTED: January 17, 2012
FINISHED: February 24, 2012
PAGES: 262
GENRE: Non-Fiction
FIRST SENTENCE: On my first project as a manufacturing project leader, inside a company known for it paternalistic management style and for being a big early driver of the Six Sigma methodology, I was the ultimate micromanager.
SUMMARY: [From Barnes and Noble] It’s a jungle out there and
project managers are fighting to survive….With countless man-hours
clocked and billions of dollars spent every year on project tools, the
success rate for projects remains astonishingly low. So what’s the
solution?
Introducing TACTILE Management™, a
people-centric system that works in conjunction with an organization’s
existing processes. Based on the seven characteristics of
high-performance project teams—transparency, accountability,
communication, trust, integrity, leadership, and execution—the book
shows project managers how to:
• Take project teams out of their functional silos and transform them into a powerful, integrated force• Balance the expectations of customers, management, and project teams with the technical requirements of cost, schedule, and performance• Apply practical phase-by-phase project guidance to real-life situations• Avoid or minimize possible pitfalls• And more
Every successful project involves
someone in the trenches who has the people skills to match process with
the capability of his team and organization. This innovative book shows
readers how to make the most of their people…and ensure project
success.
THOUGHTS: I would have liked this book more if there had been fewer case studies. The whole text would have be leaner, meaner, and far more useful. Russeil is clearly trying to sell the TACTILE method (which is all well and good), but a lot of this book was simply unnecessary. There were good lessons to be learned, but they were buried under excess pages.
If you skip the case studies and just read the "meat" of the text, this book might be of use.
RATING: 4/10 [An "okay" book]
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