According to various studies only very few projects add to the value of a company. Many are
even destined to fail from the start. Yet projects do not usually fail due to the methods and
instruments but due to people. Successful project management requires a corporate culture of
reliability trust communication team-oriented leadership and an entrepreneurial philosophy.
Here the authors show in a very impressive and practical way the influence of corporate
culture on the success of a project and how project leaders can make their projects a success
despite pathological cultural elements such as departmental thinking mistrust alibi-behavior
or unreliability. It is against this background that the four factors for success in project
management are explained - project efficacy project efficiency project participation and
project management. In so doing they describe useful instruments and approaches to the main
aspects of project management such as clarifying aims and jobs project organization project
planning milestone planning selection of project members leading project groups and
efficient project meetings. Concrete examples from practice illustrate the contents and
heighten the success of the project and company. The whole is rounded off by checklists for the
course of the project and practical working documentation - such as project sketches and
project guidelines.
