Project management

Content

Introduction

Introduction

Introduction

About This Book

Welcome to PROJECT MANAGEMENT.

This book was written to serve as a practical, hands-on guide for anyone tasked with leading projects from initial concept through to final delivery. In today’s fast-moving work environments, project success requires a pragmatic balance: enough structure to ensure predictability, and enough flexibility to adapt to changing market realities.

Who This Book Is For

  • Practitioners & Project Managers looking for structured, real-world tools to streamline execution.
  • Team Leads & Managers taking on project responsibilities without formal PM training.
  • Executives & Sponsors seeking to improve organizational alignment and project delivery success rates.

How to Use This Book

This guide is structured to mirror the lifecycle of a project while offering standalone modules you can consult as needed:

  1. Foundations & Alignment: Establishing purpose, scope, and stakeholder expectations.
  2. Planning & Risk: Resource allocation, scheduling, and risk management strategies.
  3. Execution & Control: Maintaining momentum, tracking metrics, and navigating change control.
  4. Leadership & Closure: Stakeholder communication, team dynamics, and post-project optimization.

Rather than advocating for a one-size-fits-all framework, this book focuses on adaptable principles you can tailor directly to your industry, team structure, and organizational goals.

Target audience

How to use this book

1 Introduction
1.1 [[About the book]]
1.2 [[Target audience]]
1.3 [[How to use this book]]

2 The Personas

  1. A complete beginner
  2. A business graduate thrown in at the deep end…
  3. The (naturally agile) software developer
  4. The change manager
  5. The HR professional
  6. The web agency boss
  7. The heiress to a medium-sized company
  8. The Questions
  9. Beginner questions
  10. Basic project management knowledge?
  11. What is a project?
  12. Should I aim to become a Scrum Master or a Product Owner?
  13. Do I need to go agile?
  14. Who could help me?
  15. How and where can I learn more?
  16. Business graduate questions
  17. What are the next steps?
  18. Contract management in agile projects?
  19. Cost and performance accounting in program management?
  20. I don’t have time for these useless steering committee meetings—what should I do?
  21. The (naturally agile) software developer
  22. How do I integrate DevOps, CI/CD, and test automation?
  23. Which type of agility is best?
  24. Scrum doesn’t seem to be working for us—what are we doing wrong?
  25. What are others doing?
  26. Is this right for me?
  27. What is my “sandbox”?
  28. What are the next steps?
  29. The change manager
  30. We’re facing extreme resistance from the workforce. What should we do?
  31. New ideas keep popping up during the monthly board meeting.
  32. Employees aren’t using the new software. What happened?
  33. The current release simply doesn’t work in practice. What should we do?
  34. The HR professional
  35. Who do I find when I search for “project manager”?
  36. What training should future agile practitioners receive? 6. The Web Agency Boss
  37. Somehow, all my projects end up being too expensive and/or late…
  38. My client wants something completely different halfway through…
  39. I have too many projects going on at once—what should I do?
  40. My client has their own process, but it’s useless. What should I do?
  41. Everyone here starts out as a junior project manager. Is that a good idea?
  42. How do I keep my fixed-price clients happy amidst all this agile stuff?
  43. The Heir to a Mid-Sized Company
    1.Where do I start?
  44. Everyone says we need to go agile. What should I do? –> [[The SAFe Serpent]]
  45. My project managers are doing things I don’t need. What should I do?
  46. We’ve been hacked. What should I do? 4. The Answers
  47. [[Project Management Fundamentals]]
  48. Agile and/or non-agile process models
  49. Cynefin and Stacey Matrix
  50. The SAFe Snake
  51. [[Agile Anti-Patterns]]
  52. Agile islands in non-agile organizations
  53. The boss remains the boss
  54. Change, or: “A Real Programmer can write FORTRAN programs in any language”
  55. Tools
  56. Introducing something new
  57. Standard procedures according to ITIL 4
  58. Organizational change
  59. Project change
  60. Certifications
  61. Appendix
  62. [[Standards]]
  63. PRINCE2: Market position, variants, links, literature
  64. PMI/PMBOK: Market position, variants, links, literature
  65. IPMA/GPM: ​​Market position, variants, links, literature
  66. V-Modell XT Bund: Market position, variants, links, literature
  67. Kanban: Market position, variants, links, literature
  68. Scrum: Market position, variants, links, literature
  69. XP: Market position, variants, links, literature
  70. SAFe, LeSS, Nexus, Spotify: Market position, variants, links, literature
  71. Glossary
  72. Literature