This is not a project management training manual. It will wholeheartedly fail to teach you to become a project manager; if you do want to learn about critical path analysis, earned value management,' monte carlo' simulation, work breakdown structures, critical success factors, and terms of reference then put this book back down and pick up a (allegedly) more boring looking one' that is no doubt somewhere else nearby.

Equally it is not a replacement for a good fundamental project management education program. There are, I guarantee, huge parts of the project management skillset and process missing.

It is not an alternative to a project management methodology; definitely not.

And it is not a replacement for experience or from the valuable support from an experienced project management coach.

All these things you should already have in place, achieved or secured, or in not have a plan in place in order to do so.

But it is a sharing of my experience and can act, to some degree, as a virtual coach for you in your project work.

It does describe a way to work smarter.

It is, if applied well, a means to become more productive in what you do for your projects and what you can do outside your projects. It can deliver a better work to life balance.

It works, and has worked, for me and it may work for you as well. I hope so. To be clear again, I have been formally trained in many project management methodologies over the years, I am a certified PMP® through the Project Management Institute  (PMI), and obviously I have had a lot of practical experience over the last 20 years in a wide range of projects and businesses and have been supported by some great project managers in my time.

What this is, what being a Lazy Project Manager is all about, is being focused in your project management efforts and learning to exercise your efforts where it really matters, where it makes the most impact.

There are many, many books that will take you in to every detail of every component of the project management skill set and process steps; this is not one of them.

This is project management from 37,000 feet.

So welcome to the project management 'mile high' club!