Project Rescue: Avoiding a Project Management Disaster.

• Author: Marshall, Jeffrey
• Position: Book Review

Project Rescue: Avoiding a Project Management Disaster. By Sanjiv Purba and Joseph J. Zucchero. Osborne/McGraw-Hill, 358 pages. $39.99

Virtually any senior executive at a mid-sized to large corporation has been involved in a troubled project, whether in technology or some other area. Project Rescue aims to supply ideas and strategies to save companies and their managements time, effort and dollars that might otherwise be flying out an open window.

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Purba and Zucchero, both long-time consultants in the IT field, bring a rigorous and extensive set of issues to the table--things many executives might never have thought of until it was too late. And the clock is indeed ticking as these projects languish. A project rescue, they write, "is...