Absolute beginner's guide to project management

Why learn project management the hard way? Absolute Beginner's Guide to Project Management, Second Edition will have you managing projects in no time! Here's a small sample of what you'll learn: Key concepts and fundamentals behind best-practice project management techniques The minds...

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Main Author: Horine, Greg
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Indianapolis, Ind. Que 2009
Edition:2nd ed
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Collection: O'Reilly - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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505 0 |a Cover -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- About This Book -- Who Should Read This Book? -- How This Book Is Organized -- Conventions Used in This Book -- I: Project Management Jumpstart -- 1 Project Management Overview -- What Is Project Management ... Exactly? -- What Is the Value of Project Management? -- Why Are Projects Challenging? -- Growing Demand for Effective Project Managers? -- Trends in Project Management -- 2 The Project Manager -- One Title, Many Roles -- Key Skills of Project Managers -- Qualities of Successful Project Managers -- 15 Common Mistakes of Project Managers -- 3 Essential Elements for Any Successful Project -- What Exactly Is a "Successful" Project? -- Learning from Troubled Projects -- Learning from Successful Projects -- Essential Project Manager Toolkit -- II: Project Planning -- 4 Defining a Project -- Setting the Stage for Success -- How Does Defining a Project Relate to Project Planning? -- Project Definition Document --  
505 0 |a Project Definition Checklist -- 5 Planning a Project -- Key Project Planning Principles -- Important Questions Project Planning Should Answer -- Building a Project Plan -- Summary of Supplemental Project Plan Components -- Project Plan Checklist -- 6 Developing the Work Breakdown Structure -- What Is a WBS Exactly? -- Why Is the WBS Important? -- The Process of Building a WBS -- 7 Estimating the Work -- Next Step in the Schedule Development Process -- Managing the Risk, Managing the Estimates -- Reasons for Estimating Woes -- Powerful Estimating Techniques and Methods -- Best Practices -- 8 Developing the Project Schedule -- The Impact of the Project Schedule -- The Goal of the Schedule Development Process -- Key Inputs for Building a Schedule -- Creating a Schedule -- 9 Determining the Project Budget -- The Impact of the Project Budget -- Principles of an Effective Budget -- Creating a Project Budget -- Common Budget Challenges -- III: Project Control -- 10 Controlling a Project --  
505 0 |a The Goals, Objectives, and Principles of Project Issue Management -- Key Features of Issue Management System -- Options for Issue Log -- Best Practices -- Some Special Situations -- 14 Managing Project Risks -- Key Risk Management Principles -- The Essential Process for Managing Project Risks 
505 0 |a What Is Project Control? -- Management Fundamentals for Project Control -- Powerful Techniques for Project Control -- Performance Reporting -- Variance Responses -- Leveraging Earned Value Management Concepts -- Common Project Control Challenges -- Lessons from Project Recoveries -- 11 Managing Project Changes -- What Exactly Is a Project Change and What's the Big Deal Anyway? -- Fundamentals for Managing Project Change -- What Causes Unplanned Scope Changes? -- Essential Elements of a Project Change Control System -- Powerful Techniques for Minimizing Project Changes -- Common Project Change Control Challenges -- 12 Managing Project Deliverables -- "Managing Project Deliverables" Means What Exactly? -- Why Do This? It's Too Much Work -- Identify, Protect, and Track: The Principles of Managing Work Products -- Best Practices -- Configuration Management Plan -- Common Challenges and Pitfalls -- 13 Managing Project Issues --  
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520 |a Why learn project management the hard way? Absolute Beginner's Guide to Project Management, Second Edition will have you managing projects in no time! Here's a small sample of what you'll learn: Key concepts and fundamentals behind best-practice project management techniques The mindset and skill set of effective project managers Project techniques that work in any industry, with any tools The common elements of successful projects Lessons from failed projects The value and importance of project leadership versus project management How to manage growing project trends and tough project types that first-time project managers are likely to encounter How to make better use of Microsoft Project How to respond when project reality does not match textbook scenarios Expert insight on key project management concepts and topics You've just been handed your department's biggest project. Absolute Beginner's Guide to Project Management will show you exactly where to start-and walk you step by step through your entire project! Expert project manager Gregory Horine shows you exactly what works and what doesn't, drawing on the field's proven best practices. Understand your role as a project manager ... gain the skills and discover the personal qualities of great project managers ... learn how to organize, estimate, and schedule projects effectively ... manage deliverables, issues, changes, risks, quality, vendors, communications, and expectations ... make the most of technology ... manage virtual teams ... avoid the problems that trip up new project managers! This new edition jumpstarts your project management expertise even faster, with all-new insights on Microsoft Project, challenging project situations and intriguing project management topics of the day