How to Prepare a Project: Recipes for Creating Successful Products and Teams

Deadlines are tight, tasks are lost, the team is struggling, and the end result is disappointing? You are not alone. Project management can be an unpredictable nightmare - but what if you had a clear, understandable, and proven recipe for... doing everything right?

Yegor Ganin is a professional who has launched and "failed" projects at Yandex and Mail.ru Group (now VK), has gone through chaos, facing difficulties and failures, but based on this experience found a way to turn disorder into a clear system, understood how to properly set tasks, manage deadlines and priorities, bringing projects to successful completion.

This book is the result of many years of working with real projects and teams, which helps to look at projects not as a set of disparate tasks, but as an interconnected system, regardless of their scale and complexity:

Build the right goals for the project to avoid stagnation from the first steps.
Prioritize tasks and learn to effectively focus on what really matters.
Use "pushing tables" to accelerate the movement of tasks and increase productivity.
Move to a new level of management - from project manager to product manager, revealing the secrets of effective product management.
Optimize the project management process and achieve stable and predictable results.
The author uses the metaphor of cooking and culinary arts, making complex project management concepts accessible even to those who have not encountered project management before. This makes the book easy to digest, yet rich in useful ideas.