- 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.
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Helpful Templates
1. Project Management Overview
Project Definition
Reasons for Starting a Project
Project Management
Program and Portfolio
Project Management Office (PMO)
Management by Objectives (MBO)
Constraints
Stakeholders
Organisational Structures
Lifecycles
Project Management Phases
Solved Examples1
Practice Exercise1
Chapter Summary1
2. Project Initiation
Project Selection
Project Charter
Identification of Stakeholders
Solved Examples
Practice Exercise
Chapter Summary
3. Project Planning
Scope Planning
Time Planning
Cost Planning
Quality Planning
Human Resource Planning
Communications Planning
Risk Planning
Procurement Planning
Approval and Kickoff Meeting
Solved Examples
Practice Exercise
Chapter Summary
4. Project Execution
Resource Mobilisation
Perform Project Execution
Team Management
Quality Audits and Improvements
Project Communications
Stakeholder Management
Procurement and Contracting
Solved Examples
Practice Exercise
Chapter Summary
5. Project Monitoring and Controlling
Monitoring
Control
Schedule and Cost Tracking
Project Reporting
Quality Control
Risk Monitoring
Gaining Acceptance
Managing Contracts
Handling Changes
Solved Examples
Practice Exercise
Chapter Summary
6. Project Closure
Closing Contracts
Closing Project
Solved Examples
Practice Exercise
Chapter Summary
Glossary
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