Mastering Project Management: Controlling Time, Money, and Risk

Mastering Project Management is a three-part book series designed for individuals who manage or anticipate managing workplace projects such as technical specialists, apprentices, frontline leaders, engineers, managers, and project stakeholders.

This Book 3, Controlling Time, Money, and Risk, focuses on the business management side of project management. This book aims to help you effectively manage and control your projects. The book also discusses how to measure project performance and adjust as needed to ensure your projects are completed on time and within budget. Effective business management is critical to the success of any project. By mastering the skills and techniques discussed in this book, you can effectively control the time, money, and risk associated with your projects, leading to better outcomes for your organization.

This book also focuses on the competency areas of Resource Usage and Management, Understanding Systems, Financial Management and Budgeting, Self-Direction, Decisiveness, Planning and Evaluation, and Management Controls, which are incorporated into the four chapters outlined below.

Book 3 Controlling Time, Money, and Risk

- Identifying and Mitigating Project Risk

- Controlling Project Costs and Budgets

- Managing Time and Project Meetings

- Completing and Closing Projects

The two companion books, Planning for Performance, and Results Through People, are focused on the technical and leadership sides of project management, respectively.

Although the series is directed toward individuals, faculty teaching in universities and community college programs, as well as trainers in organizations will find it useful as a text or guide to bridge theory and practice.

People in organizations who just want to learn and study more about project management can use the self-paced guidebooks for workshops and seminars or learn-at-lunch programs.

As you proceed through the content and associated learning activities, it is helpful to apply what you learn to projects that you are familiar with. This will help you better understand the concepts, and indicate areas for potential organizational improvement.

This MASTERNING PROJECT MANAGEMENT-Controlling Time, Money, and Risk guidebook focuses primarily on all the competency areas associated with the Resource Management competency cluster or domain. For more information or visit: www.centrestar.com