This book is a reality-based guide for modern projects. You'll learn how to recognise your project's potholes and ruts, and determine the best way to fix problemswithout causing more problems. Your project can't fail. That's a lot of pressure on you, and yet you don't want to buy into any one specific process, methodology, or lifecycle. Your project is different. It doesn't fit into those neat descriptions.
'Successful Project Management' will show you how to beg, borrow, and steal from the best methodologies to fit your particular project. It will help you find what works best for you and not for some mythological project that doesn't even exist. Before you know it, your project will be on track and headed to a successful conclusion. New project managers won't fall into the trap of thinking that if they manage the Gantt, they can succeed. More seasoned project managers will find several new ways of looking at project problems they've encountered in the past.
