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Project Sponsor's Tools & Templates

By Dick Billows, PMP, GCA

Summary: It is not just project managers who have to learn good project techniques. Managers at all levels needing to know how to sponsor a project correctly or they will have very high failure rates.
Project sponsors who achieve consistent project success exercise strategic control over their projects rather that attempting to micro-manage their project managers and teams.

Our Achievement-driven Project Methodology gives you the tools to control projects at the strategic level with a focus on measured business achievement not frenzied technical activity. In our project sponsor seminar you also learn to control project managers (internal or consultants) so you aren't surprised by big problems that appear when it's too late to fix them.

Articles for project sponsors and executive stakeholders

Managing with achievements rather than activities
Looking at Project Reach as a strategic issue
Achievement-Driven Project Management:   Making project management work in your organization
Project Approval Games: Two Fantasies and a Puppy
The Project Manager's Control Tower approach to successful projects
The Project-based Organization
Project Planning Principal Steps
Activities Don't Count , So Don't Count Them
Saga of the Project From Hell

Overview of the Control Tower Approach

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