This volume offers practical steps to creating a Structured Project Management (SPM) system in your organization. Based on the ten steps in Fergus O'Connell's previous book, How To Run Successful Projects, it expands on that concept to offer a solution to keeping today's high-tech companies competitive, on budget, and on schedule. Using SPM company-wide, you create a system wherein unforeseen challenges or problems occur on a localized level where they do not affect the system-wide enterprise. All project tasks are described as being both unique and part of a larger scheme, giving definition and a sense of importance to individuals, departments, divisions, and an entire company. From the individual on up, smaller projects are completed and compiled, layer upon layer, until your whole organization is producing at peak levels. If You're Encountering Problems With Projects Or The Personnel Involved With A Project, This Book Is For You. How To Run Successful High-tech Project-based Organizations Delivers The System You've Been Looking For To Help Align Your Organization's Strategic Goals And Daily Operations Along A Single Path.--book Jacket. Here's How To Create A System Wherein Project Tasks Are Clearly Described As Being Both Unique And Part Of A Larger Scheme, Giving Definition And A Sense Of Importance To Individuals, Departments, Divisions, And An Entire Business Enterprise.--jacket. Fixing Projects -- The 10 Steps -- Psi -- Assigning Psis -- Interpreting Psis -- Magicians Vs. Dukes Of Wellington [step 5(b)] -- Objections -- People (steps 4 And 6) -- Why Projects Fail -- Scoping Projects And Making Plans (steps 1-5) -- Scoping The Project (step 1) -- Making The Plan (steps 2-5) -- List Of Jobs -- The Power Of Assumptions -- One Leader -- Assign People To Jobs -- Put Contingency Into The Plan -- Document The Plan -- Present The Plan -- Agree On Next Actions -- Running Projects (steps 6-10) -- Monday Meetings -- Daily Routine -- Code Green -- Code Yellow -- Code Orange -- Code Red -- Status Reporting -- Assessing Project Plans (steps 1-5) -- Assessing Projects (steps 1-10) -- Rescuing Projects: Rescuing = Assessing + Scoping And Planning (steps 1-10) -- Auditing Completed Projects (steps 1-10) -- Running Multiple Projects -- Organization-wide Supply And Demand -- Organization-wide Project Assignment -- Personal Dance Cards -- Building A Historical Database (knowledge Management) -- Data -- Information -- High-level Estimates And Actuals -- Templates For Projects -- Project Performance Information -- Knowledge -- Analyzing Project Management Processes (steps 1-10) -- Comparing Your Methodology/procedures With The 10 Steps -- Adapting Existing Project Management Infrastructure/tools -- User Assistance -- Managing Subcontractors -- Planning -- Choosing The Subcontractor -- Writing The Contract -- Execution Of The Plan -- Implementing Structured Project Management In Organizations (ispmio). Fergus O'connell. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. If you're encountering problems with projects or the personnel involved with a project, this book is for you. "How to run successful high-tech project-based organizations" delivers the system you've been looking for to help align your organization's strategic goals and daily operations along a single path. This book helps you quickly and easily learn to use structured project management company-wide. Using the tools of structured project management and applying them to an organization can help you: - Increase customer satisfaction - Shorten time to market - Gain market edge - Cut costs - Increase revenue and profit - Bolster employee morale Here's how to create a system wherein project tasks are clearly described as being both unique and part of a larger scheme, giving definition and a sense of importance to individuals, departments, divisions, and an entire business enterprise. With this practical, real-world method -developed by best-selling author Ferhus O'Connell- challenges and problems occur on a localized level where they do not affect the entire operation, and smaller projects are completed and compiled until your whole organization is operating at peak levels A practical guide to creating a Structured Project Management (SPM) system in your organization. Based on the ten steps in Fergus O'Connell's "How To Run Successful Projects", it offers a solution to keeping today's high-tech companies competitive, on budget, and on schedule.