A role of growing importance to today's managers is focusing the attention of an entire team on achieving multiple objectives. This book provides a fresh approach for how managers can do this reliably and efficiently. Managing multiple projects is a common and often daunting challenge. Conventional time management strategies, intended for individuals, fall short for tracking multiple activities of even a small team, but formal project management techniques quickly become unwieldy in a fast-moving multiple-project workplace. As a result, managers and their teams often find themselves overwhelmed and frustrated. Managing Multiple Projects provides a place to turn. The authors-a systems engineer and a cognitive psychologist-have written what may be the first book on "group time management."

The book includes systematic methods for seeing trouble early and avoiding unrealistic commitments. It explains the role of managers as leaders in helping people deal with multiple demands and provides techniques managers (or anyone) can use to cope with problems and bring projects to successful conclusion. The book also discusses how to recover from a crisis and offers realistic approaches to change management.

This is an original approach to solving a problem nearly all managers face-successfully managing and completing multiple projects. And, like all titles in the McGraw-Hill Briefcase Books series, it's easy to read, makes frequent use of sidebars to emphasize points, and is loaded with practical advice you can use now.