
Project Management Essentials You Always Wanted To Know
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A short, simple, and practical guide to understanding how to manage all kinds of projects!
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.
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1 Project Management Overview
1.1 Project Definition
1.2 Reasons for Starting a Project
1.3 Project Management
1.4 Program & Portfolio
1.5 Project Management Office (PMO)
1.6 Management by Objectives (MBO)
1.7 Constraints
1.8 Stakeholders
1.9 Organizational Structures
1.10 Life Cycles
1.11 Project Management Phases
2 Project Initiation
2.1 Project Selection
2.2 Project Charter
2.3 Identification of Stakeholders
3 Project Planning - 1
3.1 Scope Planning
3.2 Time Planning
4 Project Planning - 2
4.1 Cost Planning
4.2 Quality Planning
4.3 Human Resource Planning
4.4 Communications Planning
4.5 Risk Planning
4.6 Procurement Planning
4.7 Approval and Kickoff Meeting
5 Project Execution
5.1 Resource Mobilization
5.2 Perform Project Execution
5.3 Team Management
5.4 Quality Audits and Improvements
5.5 Project Communications
5.6 Stakeholder Management
5.7 Procurement & Contracting
6 Project Monitoring and Controlling
6.1 Monitoring
6.2 Control
6.3 Schedule and Cost Tracking
6.4 Project Reporting
6.5 Quality Control
6.6 Risk Monitoring
6.7 Gaining Acceptance
6.8 Managing Contracts
6.9 Handling Changes
7 Project Closure
7.1 Closing Contracts
7.2 Closing Project
8 Agile Overview
8.1 What is Agile?
8.2 Need for Agile
8.3 Agile Characteristics
8.4 Agile Myths
8.5 Agile Manifesto
8.6 Agile Methodologies
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