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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Indianapolis, Ind.
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2009
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| Edition: | 2nd ed |
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| Collection: | O'Reilly - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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