Project Management Essentials, Second Edition
Description
Project management is a critical skill across a broad range of disciplines. Yet most people, regardless of educational background, have never received training in how to plan, manage, and execute projects. Project Management Essentials, Second Edition, is the go-to book for tried and true project management skills combined with the most current ideas from Agile in a concise, up-to-date, user-friendly format.
It follows the project life cycle and provides several ready-to-use templates. Readers can use this book to plan and manage a project from start to finish or as a reference for help with one particular component of project management. Alongside each template is a brief description of what each template is and why it is useful, with an example to illustrate it.
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Content
- Cover
- Project Management Essentials
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- CHAPTER 1: Introduction to Project Management
- What Is Project Management?
- What Is Project Success?
- What Is a Project Life Cycle?
- Key Roles in Project Management
- Overview of Remaining Chapters
- Summary
- CHAPTER 2: Selecting and Initiating a Project
- Portfolio Management
- Project Management Office
- Initiating Projects with a Charter
- Summary
- CHAPTER 3: Engaging Your Team and Other Stakeholders
- Your Team
- Identify and Prioritize Stakeholders
- Summary
- CHAPTER 4: Determining What Your Project Will Deliver
- Collect Requirements
- Define Scope
- Work Breakdown Structure
- Managing Risks
- Establishing Change Control
- Summary
- CHAPTER 5: Project Scheduling
- Defining Work Activities
- Sequencing Work Activities
- Estimating Activity Duration
- Developing the Project Schedule
- Showing Your Schedule on a Gantt Chart
- Assigning Workers
- Identifying Resource Overloads
- Using Software
- Summary
- CHAPTER 6: Budgeting and Baselining Your Project
- Estimate Cost
- Determine Budget
- Consolidate Schedule, Budget, Scope, and Resources into Integrated Plan
- Kickoff Project
- Baseline Consolidated Project Plan
- Summary
- CHAPTER 7: Directing Project Performance
- Continued Planning and Directing
- Maintaining Momentum
- Manage Communications
- Close Project
- Summary
- APPENDIX 1: Templates
- APPENDIX 2: Selecting, Prioritizing, and Resourcing Projects
- About the Authors
- Index
- Ad Page
- Back Cover
