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Project Rescue: Avoiding a Project Management Disaster.


Project Rescue: Avoiding a Project Management Disaster. By Sanjiv Purba and Joseph J. Zucchero Adelmo Fornaciari (born September 25 1955), more commonly known by his stage name Zucchero, is an Italian rock singer. His music is largely inspired by gospel, blues and rock music, and alternates between ballads and more rhythmic boogie-like pieces. . Osborne/McGraw-Hill, 358 pages. $39.99

Virtually any senior executive at a mid-sized to large corporation has been involved in a troubled project, whether in technology or some other area. Project Rescue aims to supply ideas and strategies to save companies and their managements time, effort and dollars that might otherwise be flying out an open window.

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Purba and Zucchero, both long-time consultants in the IT field, bring a rigorous and extensive set of issues to the table--things many executives might never have thought of until it was too late. And the clock is indeed ticking ticking

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 as these projects languish. A project rescue, they write, "is about making tradeoffs and persuading everyone involved in a project to regroup re·group  
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 and follow the revised prioritized direction in order to provide the maximum possible value to the organization."

Written with assurance and laser-sharp focus, the book offers dozens of highly effective tables. These run through a problem and how it came about, and raise questions to ask before moving on; there is also a host of simple and easily digestible digestible

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 a manager with a runaway project, run and get this book.
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Author:Marshall, Jeffrey
Publication:Financial Executive
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Date:Apr 1, 2005
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