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Definitive Guide to Project Management
The Definitive Guide to Project Management (0273663976) will show you, step by step, how to deliver the right projects in the right way at the right time, while keeping your life in balance. Using the principles critical chain management, the authors help you master the essentials of good project management and then explore the situations where good projects and good business meet. How to manage risks and politics; how to demonstrate the value added by a project; how to communicate upwards and downwards in project teams; how to energise projects; how to turn failing projects around; and how to spot likely problem projects.
It is practical, to the point, and can be used immediately. An essential companion if you want projects to be a source of inspiration not perspiration.
The Project Manager (0273701738)
The steep rise in demand for good project managers in recent years has been mirrored by the publication of book after book setting out the formal processes and mechanics of project management. Whether they are textbooks or books aimed at the practitioner, they all usually cover the same ground - the ABCs of project management.
But anyone who has ever managed a project or overseen the management of a project in the real world knows that there is a significant difference between mastering the ABCs and mastering the practice of project management itself. To go from good to great in project management, you need to shift your focus back to the real basics of management.
In this illuminating book, Richard Newton, a successful project manager with twenty years' experience, will show you several ways you can elevate your game.
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About the Author:
Knowing that you're managing a project that is going well is a good feeling.
That moment when you know that its going to happen on time, that its avoided the pitfalls and delays that could have derailed it, and that people and resources have come together surely and smoothly, is a moment to savour. Fortunately, its a very achievable moment if you have mastered the tools and techniques of great project management.
Developed from the day-to-day experiences of real project managers facing real organizational and logistical challenges, this book is designed to put you on a fast-track to managing projects of every shape and size with speed and accuracy.
The Definitive Guide to Project Management will show you, step by step, how to deliver the right projects in the right way at the right time, while keeping your life balance. Using the principles of both traditional and critical chain project management, the authors help you master the essentials of good project management and then explore the sitiations where good projects and good business meet. How to manage risks and politics; how to demonstrate the value added by a project; how to communicate upwards and downwards in project teams; how to energize projects; how to turn failing projects around; and how to spot likely problem projects. As well as covering all the conceptual tools needed for project management, this book pays special attention to the soft issues involved - how to manage the people side of project management.
Inside you will find key questions, step-by-step guidance and action checklists to help with each stage of a well-executed project:
- Before you start
- Planning
- Preliminary Definition
- Full Definition
- Design
- Build and test
- Implementation
- Shutdown and review
With The Definitive Guide to Project Management, you can deliver results on time, every time.
Sebastian Nokes is a management consultant and has written and edited several management books. He regularly project-manages programmes of a range of sizes, from smaller projects to multi-million pound projects. He is a member of the PMI and has the Institute’s PMP certification.
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- PublisherFinancial Times/ Prentice Hall
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 1405835206
- ISBN 13 9781405835206
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
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