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Foreword by James P. Lewis.
Preface: Out of the Darkness.
Acknowledgments.
The Author.
Introduction: Into the Light.
How eXtreme Projects Are Different.
Ready, Fire, Aim.
How eXtreme Project Management Is Different.
Changing the Paradigm.
Part One: The New Reality.
1 Developing a Quantum Mind-Set for an eXtreme Reality.
Is There a Method to Your Madness?
Linear Lunacy.
Newtonian Neurosis and the eXtreme Project Manager.
Self-Diagnostic Tool.
Do You Walk Your Talk?
It’s Jazz, Not Classical Music.
Toward Peaceful Coexistence.
Conclusion.
2 The eXtreme Model for Success.
Two Keys to Success.
What Is a Project? A New Definition.
What Is Project Management? A New Definition.
What Is an eXtreme Project?
What Is eXtreme Project Management?
How Is Success Measured on an eXtreme Project?
Who Holds a Stake in Success?
What Are the Elements of the eXtreme Model for Success?
Putting in Place the Skills, Tools, and Environment to Succeed: The 5 Critical Success Factors.
Part Two: Leadership Skills for an eXtreme World.
3 Leadership Begins with Self-Mastery.
The Project-Crazy Organization.
The Formula for Self-Misery.
The Formula for Self-Mastery.
Taking It to a Higher Court.
4 The eXtreme Project Manager’s Leadership Role.
The eXtreme Project Manager’s Role.
Stakeholders: The eXtreme Project Management Context.
Your Role as Process Leader.
Nine Reasons That eXtreme Project Managers Fail.
You Are More Powerful Than You May Realize.
When Commitment Is Not Obtainable.
5 Principles, Values, and Interpersonal Skills for Leading.
The 4 Accelerators: How to Unleash Motivation and Innovation.
The 10 Shared Values: How to Establish the Trust and Confidence to Succeed.
The 4 Business Questions: How to Ensure the Customer Receives Value Each Step of the Way.
Developing Interpersonal Skills for an eXtreme World.
Principles of Effective Communication.
How to Negotiate.
How to Resolve Conflict.
When All Else Fails.
6 Leading the eXtreme Team.
Process Values.
Characteristics of Teams.
Establishing the Core Team.
Creating the Conditions for Successful Teamwork.
The Keys to Running Productive Meetings.
Facilitation Skills.
Decision Making and Problem Solving.
How to Earn the Right to Lead the Process.
7 eXtreme Stakeholder Management.
The Stakeholder Challenge.
Business Values.
The Stakeholder Universe.
Managing Your Stakeholders.
The Role of the Steering Committee.
How to Combat the Phantom Approval Virus.
Managing Change: You’ve Built It, But Will They Come?
Business Question 4: Is It Worth It to You?
Part Three: The Flexible Project Model.
8 Visionate: Capturing the Sponsor’s Vision.
Getting Answers to Business Question 1: Who Needs What and Why?
The First Sponsor Meeting.
Beginning Work on the Project Prospectus.
The Second Sponsor Meeting.
9 Visionate: Establishing the Collective Vision.
Preparing for the Third Sponsor Meeting.
Go or No Go: The Third Meeting with the Sponsor.
Getting Ready for the Scoping Meeting.
Conducting the Scoping Meeting.
After the Meeting.
10 Speculate: The Planning Meeting.
Preparing for the Planning Meeting.
The Twelve-Step Planning Meeting Process.
11 Speculate: Postplanning Work.
Assessing the Project Management Infrastructure.
Estimating Financial Requirements.
12 Innovate: Learning by Doing.
The Underlying Dynamics.
Time Boxing.
Applying the SCORE Model.
The Goal of the Innovation Cycle.
13 Reevaluate: Deciding the Project’s Future.
What Reevaluate Is Not.
The Reevaluate Process.
14 Disseminate: Harvesting the Payoff.
What Happened to Business Question 4: Is It Worth It?
The Turnover Point.
The Stabilization Period.
The Project Review Meeting.
Benefits Realization.
Part Four: Managing the Project Environment.
15 Real-Time Communication.
What Are the Basic Communications
Needs of Stakeholders? 418
What Are the Hallmarks of a Viable Real-Time
Communications System?
What Specific Real-Time Features Do You Need?
Where Do You Find Affordable, Quick-Start Solutions?
What Are the Technical Considerations for Planning and Running Virtual Meetings?
What Do You Need to Know in Planning and Running Web Conferences?
What’s the Big Trap to Watch Out For?
16 Agile Organization: A Senior Management Briefing.
The New Dynamics of Projects.
How Top Managers Can Undermine Effective Project Management.
The Role of the Project Sponsor.
Becoming an Agile Organization: Best and Worst Practices.
Landing on Common Ground.
Making the Transition.
The World Is Only Going to Become More extreme.
Afterword by Robert K. Wysocki.
eXtreme Tools and Techniques.
Self-Mastery Tools and Techniques.
Interpersonal Tools and Techniques.
Facilitation Skills.
Project Management Tools.
References.
Index.