What is included with this book?
Preface | p. xi |
Acknowledgments | p. xv |
About the Authors | p. xix |
Introduction to Key Principles | p. 1 |
What Could Go Wrong? | p. 1 |
What Went Right | p. 3 |
Why Do We Do This to Ourselves? | p. 5 |
A Framework of Effective Tools | p. 6 |
Summary | p. 9 |
Purpose | p. 11 |
The Big Ideas | p. 11 |
An IT Project Death March | p. 11 |
Aligning on Purpose | p. 14 |
Usable Strategy and the Purpose Alignment Model | p. 18 |
Getting Started | p. 33 |
Summary | p. 39 |
Collaboration | p. 41 |
The Big Ideas | p. 41 |
Picking Money Up Off the Floor | p. 41 |
Collaboration: Step by Step | p. 43 |
Leading Collaboration | p. 53 |
Putting These Tools to Work | p. 63 |
Summary | p. 65 |
Delivery | p. 67 |
The Big Ideas | p. 67 |
Case Study: The Swiss Stock Exchange | p. 67 |
All Projects Are Not Created Equal | p. 68 |
Assessing Project Uncertainty and Complexity | p. 72 |
Case Study: Integrating Software by Integrating People | p. 76 |
Case Study: Time Is on Our Side | p. 79 |
Case Study: The Swiss Stock Exchange Revisited | p. 80 |
Using the Assessment to Reduce Risk | p. 83 |
Product Life Cycle | p. 86 |
Case Study: A Lot of Bull | p. 87 |
Leadership Development | p. 89 |
Portfolio Assessment | p. 92 |
Summary | p. 93 |
Decisions | p. 95 |
The Big Ideas | p. 95 |
What Do We Do? When Do We Do it? | p. 95 |
Building a Value Model | p. 98 |
It's a Conversation, Not a Number | p. 106 |
Do We Have to Decide This Today? | p. 108 |
Deliver in Chunks to Embrace Change in the Marketplace | p. 110 |
Case Study: Improved Customer Retention | p. 112 |
Case Study: An Agile Conference | p. 115 |
Decisions and Portfolio Management | p. 117 |
Summary | p. 121 |
Leadership "Tipping Point" | p. 123 |
The Big Idea | p. 123 |
Stepping Back | p. 123 |
Case Study: Leaving Money on the Floor | p. 124 |
All This Stuff Is Fine and Good-But Where Do I Start? | p. 133 |
Stepping Up | p. 138 |
Summary | p. 141 |
Summary | p. 143 |
Putting These Tools into Action | p. 143 |
Purpose Alignment Model | p. 143 |
Leading Collaboration | p. 145 |
Context Leadership Model | p. 146 |
Value-Based Decision Making | p. 151 |
Index | p. 153 |
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