How to use the power of accountability to give you the authority you need to ensure project success.

Why best practice process is so incredibly powerful, and why the precedence diagram is your most important PM tool, with a $140M example.

How risk management makes the entire project management life-cycle work, with essential tips, eight common risks, and a professional risk register template.

Essential advice for managing risks once the project is underway, how much risk budget you should have left as you proceed, and how to keep as much risk budget as possible when under pressure to reduce it.

Why requirements should be derived from higher-level user scenarios, with an example of how backfitting scenarios helped ensure the success of a $20M project.

Why the Project Manager should make friends with all the supporting departments to make your job easier, and an expensive story about why it is so important to formally close procurements.

Why the top 3 drivers of project success are so important, with a true story about how they could have saved a real project.

Why the PM should broadcast a success oriented mindset to their entire team, with a famous story that illustrates why, and a real example of how it helps.

Why telling the truth is the best thing you can do for your project, your team, your boss, and your career.