Delivery Tools
Eight interactive workbenches, one for each instrument in the book. Where the book explains why a discipline matters, these let you practise the how — with your own project's numbers.
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How to use these with the book
Read the chapter end to end. The narrative is what makes the instrument make sense; the guide on its own is just a form to fill in.
Open the matching guide and work the built-in Atlas example until the mechanics feel obvious. Every guide uses the same project the book follows.
Replace the Atlas numbers with your own. This is the point of the whole exercise — the guide is a calculator, not a quiz.
Print to PDF or copy the result into your project workspace. Nothing persists when you close the tab.
The eight guides
Listed in the order the book installs them.
Project Management Basics
The lifecycle, the iron triangle, methodologies and the key documents — the ground rules everything else sits on.
The Project Charter
Authority, SMART objectives and scope boundaries — plus the out-of-scope fence that most charters leave off.
Statement of Work
The clauses that actually win and lose disputes, and how to write acceptance criteria that are measurable and binary.
WBS, Scheduling & Critical Path
Decomposition to the 100% rule, three-point estimation, dependency types, float and the chain that governs your date.
Project & Program Financials
Rate cards, fully loaded cost, utilization and the difference between a budget and a forecast.
Risk Management
Risk versus issue, the assumption you never wrote down, scoring, and the five responses to a threat.
Vendor Management
The vendor lifecycle, the contract clauses that give you teeth, and the governance that most failures actually lack.
Earned Value Management
PV, EV and AC in both waterfall and Scrum — and the two numbers that tell you whether recovery is a plan or a fantasy.
About the book
The Discipline of Delivery: The Complete Clarity System for Project Managers follows one troubled project — Atlas — from the meeting where everyone is lost to the one where no one is, installing the instruments that answer each unanswerable question.
These guides are free whether or not you own the book, but they are built to be used alongside it. See all books →