anage project objectives between supplier and customer. This book introduces a dedicated method for suppliers to follow to ensure supplier and customer expectations are successfully meet. The method integrates a day-to-day high awareness, urgency and focus on the management of all objectives within the project to provide maximum benefit for an organization.

You’ll learn that formal targets are routinely established at the start of a project and captured in a contract or project charter. Customer expectations, such as timelines and budget, are often pitted against internal day-to-day challenges, such as cost increases and other unexpected changes. These challenges can seem even more daunting as a project progresses.

To combat this, you’ll follow detailed instructions on how handle such potential roadblocks by applying the established method. Each chapter expands the dedicated method itself and provides insight into this philosophy. In the end you’ll have all the necessary prerequisites for a successful implementation of these principles within your organization.

You will:

• Handle day-to-day challenges on a project, such as communication, unexpected changes, cost increases, and more
• Facilitate the formal and informal targets and project goals
• Balance customer and supplier expectations

Reitse van der Wekken works as project manager at Allseas, a world-leading contractor in the offshore energy market, where he leads innovative offshore platform decommissioning and installation projects, mostly located on the North Sea in Europe. In 1996 he received his MSc degree in mechanical engineering at the Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands. Thereafter he started working as project manager on international projects at German multinational Siemens, delivering automation, control and electrical systems for harbor cranes. Driven by a long-term interest in offshore engineering and construction, in 2012 Reitse moved on to Allseas. Since then he has continued his research and writing about project objectives management.

He lives with his wife and two children in the city of Delft in The Netherlands. When not reading, writing, or relaxing with his family and friends, you might find him at sea sailing. His book Project Objectives Management and the project management method introduced in it, is the result of more than two decades of interest and writing about project objectives management, a topic that highly interests and challenges him on a daily basis as a project management professional.