Managing Performance Improvement Projects: Preparing, Planning, Implementing

For years, we in HRD have been poor at delivering results to the organization on time and under budget. I never could understand the books on project management. They always used way more project management effort than I needed. The examples never made sense either. This book has to be the best resource ever given to the HRD community. The tools are simple and easy to use. I found that I could scale the project managment efforts to match the need. The examples are great and really bring home the point. The ongoing case story of Bill and Karen are fun. I found myself reading ahead just to find out what they did, and how their stories turned out.

This has to be one of the best business books ever written. I found that I was able to take the practices and put them to work right away. My manager can't believe the difference it's made in my ability to get project results. I highly recommend this book to any manager or project manager.