Contents -- List of acronyms -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- The Essential Building Blocks Part I -- Projects and project management 1 -- The context of project management 2 -- Focusing Projects on the Business Part II -- Projects and strategic linkages 3 -- The Wrappers™ model 4 -- Implementing Business Focused Project Management 5 -- Objective Directed Project Management (ODPM) Part III -- Introduction to ODPM 6 -- The project initiation phase 7 -- The project definition phase 8 -- The project planning phase 9 -- The project execution phase 10 -- The project close-out phase 11 -- Appendix A - The conference project -- Appendix B - Basic concepts, tools and techniques -- Appendix C - Reasons for failure and guidelines for success -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index.