{"product_id":"results-without-authority-controlling-a-project-when-the-team-doesnt-report-to-you-9780814417812","title":"Results Without Authority: Controlling a Project When the Team Doesn't Report to You","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Tom Kendrick\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Amacom\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Amacom\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Project Management\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the Back Cover\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen you're a project manager with a team of people who don't technically report to you, your challenge is to get \u003ci\u003eResults Without Authority\u003c\/i\u003e. This book delivers proven techniques for controlling projects and managing diverse teams in a wide variety of situations, and bringing those projects to successful closure. The concepts in this book are essential for all project managers, with and without authority, because they offer a productive alternative to \"command and control\" management techniques that can easily backfire. \u003c\/p\u003e  Tom Kendrick's system will help you get successful project results from diverse, cross-functional, virtual, outsourced, and other types of project teams by showing how to establish and build:   - Control Through Process. Key project management processes, infrastructure, and the role of the project office.  - Control Through Influence\u003cb\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e Productive leadership styles, reciprocity, and maintaining relationships.  - Control Through Project Metrics\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e Quantitative, predictive, diagnostic, and retrospective metrics for project control, motivating desired behaviors, and avoiding potential problems.  - Control Through Project Initiation\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e The role of the sponsor in project control, the importance of project vision, project launch documentation, and the project start-up workshop.  - Control Through Project Planning. Collaborative planning as the foundation of project control; planning as a key factor in setting baselines and establishing metrics.  - Control During Project Execution\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e Measurement and interpretation of project status, informal communication, and maintaining relationships as keys to maintaining control.  - Control Through Tracking and Monitoring. Controlling scope and other project parameters; formal project communication and reporting, rewards and recognition, and project reviews.  - Enhancing Overall Control Through Project Closure. Sign-off, evaluating retrospective project metrics, celebrating, and rewarding the team; improving long-term project control through lessons learned.   Packed with invaluable guidance for managing projects of all scopes and in any field, \u003ci\u003eResults Without Authority\u003c\/i\u003e will help novice and experienced project leaders get the best from their project teams.   Tom Kendrick is a program manager, most recently with the Hewlett-Packard Company, and the author of \u003ci\u003eIdentifying and Managing Project Risk\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Project Management Tool Kit\u003c\/i\u003e. He conducts project management classes, and presents at conferences and universities on program manage-ment, project risk, and related topics. ","brand":"Amacom","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45409826504855,"sku":"9780814417812","price":1905.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780814417812.webp?v=1767311937","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/results-without-authority-controlling-a-project-when-the-team-doesnt-report-to-you-9780814417812","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}