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If you are tired of traditional Project Management Practices, struggling with a high rate of project failures or looking for a “new”, “light” and “engaging” way to manage your Projects then this book is for you.
“How to be a good Manager?” is a question that every Project Manager needs to ask himself/herself for his/her team and consequent project success.The brain friendly radiant thinking approach using Mind Maps can used in projects for effective design thinking, critical thinking, complex decision making and much more. And one of the biggest benefit of Mind Maps is that it impacts Time Management positively since it not only helps you get inside complex topics/situations faster but also dramatically improves individual plus organisational creativity.
This is probably the first book globally which show cases the immense potential for Mind Mapping across the project life cycle from start to finish. What is more with every purchase you get free access to 40 Mind Map templates which you can immediately use, and benefit from, by applying them in your projects. A quick listing of the Mind Map templates included for various Project management aspects in this book are as follows:
– Developing a Project Vision
– Defining a Project Communication Plan
– Benefit versus Cost Analysis for multiple scenarios during negotiation
– Negotiation using the principles in “Getting to Yes” by Roger Fisher
– Problem Solving using 5 Wife & 1 Husband method
– Building a Customers Landscape
– Capturing Learning, Opportunities for Improvement during the project
– Time Management based on Steven Covey’s Importance-Urgency matrix
– Managing Ambiguity
– Project Feasibility Analysis
– Identifying Assumptions in a Project.
– Project Benefit Analysis
– Defining a Project Charter
– Using Mind Maps to effectively apply Kano’s Model
– Capturing the Project Scope
– Top level Milestone Reporting
– Delphi process for Estimating Project Cost
– Project Costing
– Skill Set Gap Analysis
– Communicating a Project Vision
– Stakeholders Communication Need Analysis
– Capturing Risks & Opportunities by Milestones
– Preparing and Conducting a Teleconference
– Effective Conflict Resolution
– Capturing and Communicating Emotions during a Project Lifecycle
– Impact Analysis of a Change to the project
– Tracking Individual Resources Activities
– Reporting and Monitoring Project Critical Path
– A “Directional” Mind Map for use as a Project Dashboard in Agile Scrum
– Quality Planning
– Cause Effect Analysis
– Investigative approach in Quality Control
– Quality Assurance via Deming’s Cycle
– Risk & Opportunities Identification
– Managing Procurement
– “Make” or “Buy’ Decision
– Project Pendency Checklist
– Capturing Project Learning at closure
– Effective Retrospective Meets
– Project Portfolio Management using Mind Maps
Whats more you get free access to these Mind Map templates with the book to kick start your journey of Mind Mapping for effective Project Management. This is the perfect book for you and also to gift to anybody in the project management profession.
