Facilitating the Project Lifecycle or Behavioral Trading

Facilitating the Project Lifecycle: Skills & Tools to Accelerate Progress for Project Managers, Facilitators, and Six Sigma Project Teams

Author: Janet A Means

Step by step, Facilitating the Project Lifecycle guides the project manager/facilitator in making smart choices about when and how to pull key talent together to spell success for the project and ultimately the organization. The authors will help you understand the benefits of using facilitated group work sessions to get real work done during a project and get it done better and more efficiently than more traditional individual work approaches. In addition, the book includes:

• Recommendations for capitalizing on group knowledge to accelerate the building of key project deliverables and ensure their quality as they are built

• A work session structure for planning, delivering, and following up facilitated work sessions

• Guides for building key project deliverables

• Sample agendas

• Proven techniques for managing the group dynamics

Table of Contents:

1	Old dogs and new tricks	5
2	Facilitation within the project lifecycle	12
3	Who's on first?	25
4	What effective facilitation is and is not	32
5	Making work sessions work	45
6	The work session tightrope	55
7	Preparing for the work session	69
8	Conducting the work session	82
9	Wrapping up the work session	94
10	Establishing the project charter	103
11	Analyzing and designing business processes	116
12	Defining business requirements	135
13	Assessing risks	152
14	Convening work-in-progress reviews	166
15	It's all about communication	189
16	Flip-charting	197
17	Brainstorming	202
18	Facilitated dialogue	206
19	Nominal group and affinity analysis	211
20	Prioritization techniques	217
21	Breakout groups	232
22	Staying on track : agendas, action items, and other focusing techniques	237
23	Creating a purpose statement	253
24	Defining objectives and targets	258
25	Scope framing	267
26	Guiding factors : assumptions, constraints, dependencies, and touch points	276
27	Discovering impacts	282
28	Risk analysis matrices	288
29	Process decomposition	298
30	Process mapping	308
31	Process detail table	323
32	Context diagramming	329
33	Requirements table	345
34	Developing a timeline	357

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Behavioral Trading: Methods for Measuring Investor Confidence and Expectations and Market Trends

Author: Woody Dorsey

Have you ever wondered to what extent investor confidence and expectations, rather than solid financial analysis, impact stock market prices? In Behavioral Trading, stock market contrarian, Woody Dorsey, gives readers for the first time insight into his unique and highly successful market diagnosis technique based on proprietary methodologies, often described as market expectations theory, behavioral finance and most commonly contrary opinion analysis. Although long popular with major investors and the financial media for his macroeconomic perspective that is more than six months ahead of the crowd, Dorsey shows how his technique makes behavioral economics practical, accessible and understandable.

About the Author:
Woody Dorsey studied economics, philosophy and forecasting methodologies at Amherst College, and began publishing market commentary in 1985. His innovations in Market Sentiment Interpretation, Trend Duration Analysis, and Market Correlation Deductions are part of a system of diagnosing the markets. He lives in Vermont.