Project Management Essentials You Always Wanted To Know: Project Planning, Execution, Agile Strategies, and Core Methods for Project Success Simplified (Self-Learning Management Series) - Softcover

Publishers, Vibrant; Ashar, Kalpesh

Softcover

ISBN 10: 163651071X ISBN 13: 9781636510712

Publisher: Vibrant Publishers, 2022

Synopsis

Project Planning, Execution, Agile Strategies, and Best Practices for Project Success Simplified. A short, simple, and practical guide to understanding how to manage all kinds of projects!

 

• Simplified explanation of concepts
• Chapter Summaries
• Solutions to Practice Exercises
• Practical approaches for application
• Best Practices
• Project Management Templates

As employees move into a project management role, they need to learn new skills. These would include management of several different dimensions of a project to deliver the project successfully. Project Management Essentials You Always Wanted to Know: 5th Edition provides the core information about how to manage the complexity of modern projects with improved easy-to-understand explanations, a new WBS template and a new chapter on Agile. The new edition, includes topics such as:

• Project management overview
• Project Initiation - Constraints, Stakeholders, PMO, Life Cycles
• Project Planning - WBS,CPM, Budgeting, Quality, Resources, Communications, Risk, Procurement, Stakeholders
• Project Execution - Audits, Resources, Communications
• Project Monitoring & Controlling - Tracking, Quality Control, Change Control
• Project Closure
• Agile Overview (new)

About the Series
The Self-Learning Management series is designed to help students, new managers, career switchers and entrepreneurs learn essential management lessons. This series is designed to address every aspect of business from HR to Finance to Marketing to Operations, be it any industry. Each book includes basic fundamentals, important concepts, standard and well-known principles as well as practical ways of application of the subject matter. The distinctiveness of the series lies in that all the relevant information is bundled in a compact form that is very easy to interpret.

About this title

About the Author

Kalpesh Ashar is a management consultant and corporate trainer holding an MBA (Dean’s Award Winner) from SPJIMR, one of Asia’s top business schools, and an Engineering degree with honors in Electronics. He has over 24 years of experience in large organizations and start-ups in Asia, USA, and Europe.
Kalpesh has worked in several project management roles, like Senior Project Manager, Delivery Manager, and Program Manager. He is passionate about writing on management subjects. His techno-business background gives him a unique position to write on management topics that are easy to understand for non-MBA graduates. His books are authored in a simple to understand manner without unnecessary use of management jargons.

Vibrant Publishers is focused on presenting the best texts for learning about technology and business as well as books for test preparation. Categories include programming, operating systems and other texts focused on IT. In addition, a series of books helps professionals in their own disciplines learn the business skills needed in their professional growth.

Vibrant Publishers has a standardized test preparation series covering the GMAT, GRE and SAT, providing ample study and practice material in a simple and well organized format, helping students get closer to their dream universities.

Edition details

• Publisher: Vibrant Publishers
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 163651071X
• ISBN 13: 9781636510712
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 234