Making It Happen (eBook)

Mackenzie Kyle is the Principle of the Beringer Group and an associate at Manageering, a firm specializing in project management consulting and training. He has spent the last 15 years working on a variety of project management related assignments at organizations in Canada, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, and Asia.

Preface

Part One: GENESIS

Chapter 1: Sink or Swim

Chapter 2: Grasping the Scope

Chapter 3: What is a Project?

Chapter 4: The Team Meets

Chapter 5: Sifting Through the Mess

Chapter 6: Asking the Right Questions

Chapter 7: Writing the Objective Statement

Chapter 8: The Project Manager Faces the Board

Part Two: THE PROJECT TEAM

Chapter 9: The Team's Roles

Chapter 10: Company Politics

Part Three: THE DESIGN PHASE

Chapter 11: What is Design, and How Long Does it Take?

Chapter 12: Organizing the Design Process

Chapter 13: The User's Needs

Chapter 14: Charts, Costs, and Other Puzzles

Chapter 15: More Problems with Schedules

Part Four: EXECUTION PLANNING

Chapter 16: Tasks

Chapter 17: A Dependency Chart

Chapter 18: Finding and Fixing Mistakes

Part Five: EXECUTION

Chapter 19: Altering Plans

Chapter 20: On a Crash Course

Chapter 21: A New Assignment

Part Six: THE REVIEW PROCESS

Chapter 22: Assessing Assignments

Part Seven: THE PROJECT MANAGER'S SURVIVAL MANUAL

Chapter 23: Recording the Fundamentals

Part Eight: NEW FRAMEWORKS

Chapter 24: Checking Assumptions

Epilogue

"...a novelty in helping non-project managers understand what aproject is and, above all, the art and science of projectmanagement. Easy to read, it captures an approach I would recommendto anyone."

-- Dr. Calin Popescu, Professor of Engineering and ProjectManagement, University of Texas at Austin

"[Mackenzie Kyle has] put a proven process for planning andmanaging projects into a great read."

-- Richard Pearson, Managing Director, Priority ManagementHong Kong

"Making It Happen is not only an easy read, laying outthe fundamentals of organizing projects, but also brings to lifethe concepts."

-- Gary Hamer, BC Gas

"...a novelty in helping non-project managers understand what a
project is and, above all, the art and science of project
management. Easy to read, it captures an approach I would recommend
to anyone."

-- Dr. Calin Popescu, Professor of Engineering and Project
Management, University of Texas at Austin

"[Mackenzie Kyle has] put a proven process for planning and
managing projects into a great read."

-- Richard Pearson, Managing Director, Priority Management
Hong Kong

"Making It Happen is not only an easy read, laying out
the fundamentals of organizing projects, but also brings to life
the concepts."

-- Gary Hamer, BC Gas