Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One: The Critical Role of the Functional Manager in Project Success -- Chapter 1 What the Functional Manager Should Know About the Project Organization -- Who Is the Functional Manager? -- The Challenge of Integrating the Project Team into the Organization -- The Functional Manager's Role in Creating an Integrated Project Organization -- The Three Types of Organizational Structure -- The Functional Manager's Impact on Project Success or Failure -- Chapter 2 The Importance of Project Planning -- Creating Foresight -- Why Do You Need a Plan? -- What Is a Good Plan? -- Basic Steps to Planning Projects -- Summary of Project Planning -- Project Plans and Vendors -- Project Planning Tools: What They Do and What They Don't Do -- Challenges to Getting a Good Plan -- Multi-Project Systems -- Chapter 3 Understanding the Business Side of the Project 69 -- The Connection Between Business Knowledge and Requirements -- Writing Good Requirements -- Scope Creep -- Stabilizing Requirements Through the Business Process -- Chapter 4 The Ideal Functional Manager in the Project Organization -- "Get It" . . . or Risk Getting Moved Out -- Part Two: Four Critical Project Management Skills for Functional Managers -- Chapter 5 The Project Management Mystique Unveiled -- A Shared Language -- Project Management Demystified -- Demystifying Methodologies -- Chapter 6 Articulating the Real Customer Need and Business Case for the Project -- Producing a Mission Statement That Conveys Urgency and Vision -- Creating a Meaningful Current and Future State Comparison -- Base Your Requirements on the Business Process -- Prepare a Realistic Business Case -- Chapter 7 Staying Focused on Project Deliverables -- The Deliverable Structure: A Portrait of the Work.

Creating Deliverable Structures -- Case Study 183 -- Chapter 8 Understanding Key Project Dependencies -- Telling Your Story of the Work -- Case Study -- Chapter 9 Being Proactive About Project Risk -- Basics of Risk -- Pushing the Risk Discussion -- Case Study -- Chapter 10 The Power of the Principles -- Index.