The Principles of Effective Project Management

By Marc Leong

Have you ever wonder why your projects failed?

Fret not! Help is here.

Companies are increasingly turning to Project Management to help them ride the many challenges confronting them. They see the benefits of relying on Project Management to help them navigate their way forward, in particular when they need to get groups in their organisations to work collaboratively.

This book is about applying the principles and the proven system with resources provided and the step-by-step guidance to help readers to move from "know-how" to "Do Now"

The overall goal of this book is to provide readers the greater confidence to achieve the results and success with customer satisfaction. The detailed step by step guide to project team and members to achieve excellence in project execution to deliver safely, on time, on budget, in full, and to the right quality.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Faris Digital Solutions Pte Ltd
• Release date: Nov 17, 2019
• ISBN: 9789813178151

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Published by Marc Leong

Copyright © 2019 Marc Leong

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How To Use This Book

How To Use This Book?

This book is written for:

- Individuals who are newly promoted and required to lead projects or support the major parts of a project as a core team member in their respective organizations, and units would find this helpful to their project roles and responsibilities.

- Individuals who aspired to be project manager, and wanting to Know how and ways to improve his efficiency and effectiveness.

- Company that wants to improve their profitability through the effective execution of their projects.

The principles are easy to understand, but difficult to master. Be patient with yourself. The proven system is easy to understand and implement as checklists, templates and forms are given with step-by-step guidance. However, to be successful in project management you need both the principles and the proven system.

I suggest that you read through the whole book at least once, then return for a second read to concentrate on the principles #1-7. Commit yourself to understand and apply them daily. Commit to learn and do it until it becomes second nature to you. I can assure you that if you keep practicing it you will be greatly benefitted and rewarded.

An even better way to ensure that you progress to deeper levels of understanding and implementation is for you to read as though you are going to teach to your team members, your vendors, and customers.

Enjoy your reading and keep improving.

See you at the top!

Contents

How to use this book

Introduction

Chapter 1 – Personal Effectiveness Principles

Project Management and the Inside-Out Process

What is Project Management?

Growth and Benefit Mind Set

Personal Change – Personal Effectiveness Principles

Principle #1 – Be Proactive

Principle #2 – Begin with the End in Mind

Principle #3 – First Things First

Chapter 2 –Leadership & Management Principles

Principle #4 – Think Win/Win

Winning With the People

Team Work

Four Stages of Team Forming

The Law of the Chain (forming a casual team)

The Law of the Chain (forming a project team)

Principle #5 – Seek First To Understand, Then to be understood.

Principle #6 – Synergy

Chapter 3 – Sustainability

Principle #7 – Sharpen Your Saw

Spiral Out

Chapter 4 – Effective Planning Principle

Vital Few, Trivial Many

Chapter 5 – The Call-To-Action communication. (CTA)

Important of clear and concise Call-To-Action (CTA) communication

Communication with Team Members

Communication with Customers

Communicating & Managing Subcontractors

The 3Cs of Subcontractors Management Success

5 Common Mistakes in managing subcontractors

Chapter 6 – The Proven System

Sales Handover

Contract Check List

Specification Check List

Planning and Project Scheduling

Planning for Internal Kick-Off Meeting

The eight essential agreement of a committed partnership

Elements of a Well Run Meeting

Customer Kick-Off Meeting

Safety Is Our Priority

Occupational Health and Safety

Lock Out Tag Out (LOTO)

7 Steps That Save Lives

Risk and Opportunities Management

Areas of Concern

Costing & Budgeting

The Proven System (Done-For-You)

Conclusion

About The Author

Introduction

Introduction

I have a problem!

Over the years as a practitioner, I had seen many projects ended in the red. I analysed the situation and seek for an answer. I observed that some PM does not have the necessary knowledge, but most have the required knowledge. But still, the projects are not executed to achieve the desired results. I talked to some of the project managers and further diagnosed the information gathered.

I found 2 reasons;

1. There is no passion, delegation, and commitment to create excellence. Most perform functions only and go to work to do processes. They are neither committed to create excellence nor seek continuous improvement.

2. They have the knowledge but do not know how to apply them effectively.

Sadly to see many projects don’t get the ROI (Return on Investment).

Often delay incurs additional hidden costs and losses due to extra engineering hours, changes & modification, inspecting quality into products rather than building quality into products. Does not have the mental or cultivate the habit of Doing It Right the First Time.

Some project managers stop there. They encourage people, make them feel good, help them feel confident, but then they never lead them to action. It’s not enough to help someone feel good.

Understanding changes minds.

Action changes lives.

If you really want to help others, you need to take your communication to the next level - which is to call people to action.

Most do not know what to do, do not know how to apply what’s being taught to them.

There is no action plan, step-by-step guidance with resources for them to take the right action towards effective project management. Until now!

The Purpose

This book is about applying the principles I am about to teach and provide with resources and step-by-step guidance to help people to move from know-how to Do Now

The purpose of this book is to help people find the effective ways and doing things differently for better results.

There are a whole lot of things for project management. I will reveal to you in chapter 6, The Proven System.

The fact that you’re interested in this book, shows that you are a responsible person, who want to do good to better