Adaptive Project Planning - Paperback

by Louise M. Worsley (Author), Christopher Worsley (Author)

The text explores why you must plan when using agile approaches, how to approach the planning in stakeholder complex projects, and how to plan for innovation.

Despite claims to the contrary, there is no single approach to planning a project, but for a given project, there is a best one. This book takes you through many planning situations you will meet. The authors use stories of real projects to show how planning decisions alter depending on the project context. They discuss how resource-constrained planning differs from end-date schedule planning and look at what is different between cost-constrained plans and time boxing.

The text explores why you must plan when using agile approaches, how to approach the planning in stakeholder complex projects, and how to plan for innovation. For project managers, getting involved with increasingly complex projects, it's all about developing your judgment. The crucial judgments remain how to plan and structure a project. Through the exploration of many types of projects and the introduction of models and an approach to planning this book will aid your journey into high performance project management.

Author Biography

Louise Worsley has been a project management consultant, lecturer, and coach for nearly 30 years. She is a visiting lecturer at the University of Cape Town on the MSc in project management, a judge on the PMO Global Awards, and the Chairperson of the judging committee for the PMO South Africa Awards. Louise is a regular contributor to project management online forums, providing articles and case studies in a variety of areas related to project and program management. As the joint leader of the Success Stories Shared initiative to encourage learning across the South African project manager community, she has captured and shared project stories with a particular focus on effective stakeholder engagement strategies.