Facilitating the Project Lifecycle - Means, Janet A.; Adams, Tammy
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This book draws on more than 20 years experience and goes beyond facilitation as "meeting management" to detail how to elicit, analyze, verify and translate a group s knowledge and expertise into a tangible deliverables. Using real-world examples, the book shows how to get the benefits of group buy-in and ownership.
Facilitating the Project Lifecycle
Facilitating the Project Lifecycle is filled with insights and practical work session techniques that can be readily applied within any project to accelerate the process and enhance quality. This book shows how to prevent some of the more…mehr

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This book draws on more than 20 years experience and goes beyond facilitation as "meeting management" to detail how to elicit, analyze, verify and translate a group s knowledge and expertise into a tangible deliverables. Using real-world examples, the book shows how to get the benefits of group buy-in and ownership.
Facilitating the Project Lifecycle

Facilitating the Project Lifecycle is filled with insights and practical work session techniques that can be readily applied within any project to accelerate the process and enhance quality. This book shows how to prevent some of the more common problems and pitfalls that contribute to poor quality as well as cost and time overruns.

Step by step, Facilitating the Project Lifecycle guides the project manager/facilitator in making smart choices about when and how to pull key talent together to spell success for the project and ultimately the organization. The authors will help you understand the benefits of using facilitated group work sessions to get real work done during a project and get it done better and more efficiently than more traditional individual work approaches. In addition, the book includes
_ Recommendations for capitalizing on group knowledge to accelerate the building of key project deliverables and ensure theirquality as they are built
_ A work session structure for planning, delivering, and following up facilitated work sessions
_ Guides for building key project deliverables
_ Sample agendas
_ Proven techniques for managing the group dynamics

Facilitating the Project Lifecycle also comes with a CD-ROM, which includes the book's many forms, templates, and checklists.

Praise for Facilitating the Project Lifecycle

"Chock-full of helpful session templates, guidelines, and resources."
-Ellen Gottesdiener, EBG Consulting, Inc., author, Requirements by Collaboration: Workshops for Defining Needs

"This book is a road map to successful facilitation of teams to realize business improvements and change through projects."
-Wes Hopmans, director of IT, Crane & Co., Inc.

"Jan Means and Tammy Adams open their notebooks, sharing hard-won procedures, session designs, and tips that would take years to acquire on your own."
-Maureen Jenkins, chair, International Association of Facilitators

"Anyone who runs projects effectively knows that project success is rooted in people. Facilitating the Project Lifecycle puts people on center stage, which makes it exceptional among project management books."
-J. Davidson Frame, academic dean, University of Management and Technology

"This book does an amazing job of applying facilitation to the complexities of project management. I can't imagine a project leader who wouldn't want to keep this resource handy!"
-Ingrid Bens, author, Facilitating with Ease!

"Jan Means and Tammy Adams give us a toolkit of skills, templates, and techniques essential for success on any project."
-Doug DeCarlo, author, eXtreme Project Management

"The real roadblock to a successful project is invariably people. This book tackles this challenge head on by leveraging group dynamics to bring teams to consensus and break down barriers to successful project delivery."
-William M. Ulrich, president, Tactical Strategy Group, Inc., author, Legacy Systems: Transformation Strategies
Autorenporträt
Janet A. Means is cofounder of Resource Advantage, Inc., a consulting and training firm specializing in business process innovation, organizational productivity improvement, and information technology planning and design. She is a certified professional facilitator with the International Association of Facilitators. Tammy Adams is the managing partner of Chaosity LLC, a consulting firm specializing in collaborative techniques for business process improvement and project acceleration. She is a certified professional facilitator and certified quality manager.