Project Management for the Unofficial Project Manager

an effort to manage projects better, many organizations invest in expensive, sophisticated project management software. Often they become so entranced with managing the project management software, they forget to manage the project

There’s a right way and wrong way to initiate a project. The right way is to invest the time to frontload the project. The return on this investment is vast. If you do not frontload as we’ve described, you’ll end up doing a whole lot of “backloading”—tearing your work up and starting over again and again until the time and money runs out and you can’t deliver

Frontloading is the basic principle of project success. Only a fool would try a project like climbing Mount Everest without careful frontloading