Includes index.

Time for a new project mindset -- Project alignment to corporate strategy -- Relentless engagement -- Plan, adapt, and if necessary, change -- The business case? Your most important tool -- Have an insatiable thirst for feedback -- Strengthen the foundation of your project -- Establish and enhance the benefits realization plan and processes -- Strategically transform your project -- Possess an incessant focus on the business.

"Projects are volatile endeavors filled with numerous uncertainties, dependencies, contingencies, and risks--not to mention the personalities and competing interests; they require a lot of attention and enhancement! It's time to shift out of cruise control and start driving our projects toward their intended business objectives. Organizations that remain competitive are the ones making smart business decisions on how they invest their money in strategic initiatives (i.e., projects) and how they manage, adjust, and enhance those project investments until the desired business returns are realized. This book shows how to optimize project management to ensure strategic investments generate their intended results. Anyone involved in the end-to-end delivery of project investments--from project ideation to business improvement to benefit realization--should consider this book a must read"--