Books by practitioners for practitioners

Book 1 in the Screwing Up series

The Dutch language version is being published.

471 pages

366 ways to screw up projects

If you are a business leader, manager or sponsor of a project, along with accountability comes a deep awareness of what’s at stake. It’s not just money, resources and business reputations on the line. Project failure takes a heavy personal toll, causing anguish, damaging self-confidence and derailing careers.

There is no shortage of “how-to” guides that expound project management theory, focusing on standard measures of performance like scope, cost, schedule, risk and quality. What’s usually ignored or glossed over is the human factor – the behavioural patterns of stakeholders and participants that threaten project success.

Prashant was curious about why projects were failing in the real world despite the abundance of textbooks and methodologies. This led to a ten year deep dive into his experience managing projects large and small, across multiple sectors and geographies to identify an array of things that could go wrong, and torpedo a project.

Any day of the year (even if it’s a leap year), you can open the book on any page and find something to fall prey to that will cause the screw up of your project. Think of this unique book as a “how-not-to”. It will help you identify behaviours that are early warning signs of danger, and tell you what you can do to keep your project on track.

Beyond 366 ways to destroy projects, the book features:

  • over 1200 behaviours that sabotage projects
  • over 1100 potential consequences from these behaviours, and
  • over 1100 actions you can take to fix screwed-up projects.
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