On Time, On Budget: Managing Projects with Limited Time and Resources

Your ability to manage projects well

is crucial to your organization's success.

The work world is becoming increasingly projectized. More and more of what we do these days is project work. There was a time when projects were what people did in addition to their primary work responsibilities. Today it is the reverse; non-project work is what we do when not working on projects. As a result, success in business increasingly depends on one's ability to manage projects.

There is a wide assortment of approaches to managing projects; success depends on applying the right tools to the right projects in the right way. Given the amount of money currently spent on projects, it is imperative that organizations learn to manage them effectively and efficiently-on time and on budget.

In this concise and readable handbook for today's project managers, you'll learn how to:

- Develop a realistic project plan that maximizes the probability of success

- Create a workable project schedule that maximizes the use of project resources

- Develop an effective project team

- Keep projects on time and on budget

- Make meetings work

- Ensure that the project results meet customer requirements

- Wrap up a project so there are no loose ends

Suitable for individual reference or classroom instruction, On Time, On Budget will be a valued resource for project managers in any field.

John Shoemaker has extensive practical and academic experience in project management. He has managed projects in the advertising, marketing, and marketing research industries and worked as a corporate trainer and seminar speaker throughout the U.S., Canada, Puerto Rico, the United Kingdom, and the United Arab Emirates. His client list includes small businesses, not-for-profit organizations as well as many Fortune 500 companies. John has taught courses in project management, public administration, quality management systems, statistics, research methodology, and marketing research at a number of colleges and universities. He holds a B.A. from Pacific Lutheran University and an M.A. from Western Washington University, and received his Ph.D. at the University of Kentucky after completing his doctoral research at the University of Copenhagen in Copenhagen, Denmark.

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John Shoemaker holds a B.A. from Pacific Lutheran University and an M.A. from Western Washington University. He received his Ph.D. at the University of Kentucky after completing his doctoral research at the University of Copenhagen in Copenhagen, Denmark.John has taught courses in project management, public administration, quality management systems, statistics, research methodology, and marketing research at a number of colleges and universities including Kansas State University and the University of Kansas.Since leaving full-time academic employment, he has held a number of positions in the private, public, and not-for-profit sectors. He is currently an associate faculty member in the MBA program at City University of Seattle. He has also worked at CETYS Universidad in Baja California, Mexico, and the University of International Business and Economics in Beijing, China where he taught project management.John has extensive practical experience in project management. For over 20 years, he managed projects in the advertising, marketing, and marketing research industries. He also worked as a corporate trainer for over 15 years. In this capacity, he conducted more than 200 project management seminars throughout the U.S., Canada, Puerto Rico, the United Kingdom, and the United Arab Emirates. His client list includes many Fortune 500 companies.In addition to project management seminars, he does contract project management, project management consulting, and Merlin-based project management software training and consulting.He has been a senior member of the American Society for Quality and the Project Management Institute and is retired from the Kansas Air National Guard. He lives in Gig Harbor, Washington.John may be contacted through his website at www.pmprof.online.