Management of New Product Launches and Other Marketing Projects

Book excerpt: It is the author's conviction that success in performing sales and marketing work is enhanced when formal project management methodology is consistently applied. So the early chapters provide the reader with a clearly articulated project management methodology. At the end of the book he applies the material in the previous chapters to managing new product launches. The reader will find a very ample list of launch program tasks and see how they are related in work breakdown structures. Further, there is a set of "Launch Readiness Checklists" and instructions on using them to control product launch projects.