Project Management Essentials You Always Wanted to Know

Includes Chapter Summaries and Solutions to Practice Exercises

Simplified Project Management concepts

Practical approaches that can be applied to projects

Best Practices used in contemporary projects

Project Management Templates

As employees first move towards management, they typically take on management of critical projects. Project Management Essentials You Always Wanted To Know: 4th Edition provides the core information about how to manage the complexity of modern projects. This comprehensive yet compact project management book includes topics such as:

Overview of project management

Project Initiation - Constraints, Stakeholders, PMO, Life Cycles

Project Planning - WBS, PERT/CPM, Budgeting, Risk

Project Execution - Audits, HR, Communications

Project Monitoring & Controlling - Tracking, Quality Control, Change Control

Project Closure

After the reader has mastered the concepts in this book, he or she will be able to complete projects faster, optimize the workload, plan and execute projects successfully, and handle the different responsibilities of the workflow easily.

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, across any and every industry. Each book includes basic fundamentals, important concepts, standard and well-known principles, and 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.

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 21 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.

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