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The Project Management Life Cycle reveals the unique Method 123 Project Management Methodology by defining the phases, activities and tasks required to complete a project. Containing hundreds of practical examples to enhance the reader's understanding of project management, the book skilfully moves through the four critical phases of the project life cycle: initiation, planning, execution and closure. Written in a clear, professional and straightforward manner, it avoids the complex terminology rife within the industry. Its prescriptions apply equally well to numerous types of project management, including IT, construction, engineering, telecommunications, and government. Includes more than 150 charts, tables, forms and checklists, plus free online support material.
Following the advice in this guide will not only help your get your project off on the right foot, but will also keep you and your team marching along to its successful conclusion. You'll learn how to put together the best team for the job, how to define your goals and motivate your teammates, how to monitor the teams progress and keep the project on track, and how to stay within budget and time constraints. The book also explains how to use charts and diagrams to detail and define various aspects of the project.
Project Management for Small Projects shows you how to tailor bureaucratic planning processes to a sleek minimum while still keeping your project running like a well-oiled machine. The Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) recommends tailoring the planning processes to fit the size of your project, but it doesn't always fully explain how. Using too much process can be as detrimental to a project as not using a process at all. For years, this book has helped managers of small projects design processes that are neither too big nor too small but "just right." It provides simplified but compliant tools for immediate use in managing small projects. And since most small projects tend to be similar in structure or outcome, a template for one project can be used for future projects. This new edition of Project Management for Small Projects has been updated to align with the latest PMBOK. In addition, there is new material on Agile project management and on the essential leadership skills for small project managers.
Commercial and competitive pressures place ever greater demands on the project manager and their team. Each project presents its own challenges--size, technical complexity, risk, timescale--and professional management skills of the highest order are needed to ensure success. To be fully effective, project managers (and managers of projects!) need to take decisions from a business perspective and know how to identify and harness all the relevant skills required for the job. Mastering Project Management enables the busy manager to review, extend and sharpen their project management skills. It promotes individual development, personal and organisational effectiveness by: reviewing lessons from past projects and exchanges, experience and ideas; enabling experienced project managers to assess and improve performance and methods; providing practical tools and techniques for the busy manager to improve their projects.
Embark on a transformative journey into the world of project management—an exploration of the principles, methodologies, and strategies that drive successful project planning, execution, and delivery. "Mastering Project Management: Navigating Success Through Effective Planning and Execution" is a comprehensive guide that unveils the art of orchestrating complex projects and achieving desired outcomes. Unveiling Project Excellence: Immerse yourself in the art of project management as this book provides a roadmap to understanding the intricacies of managing projects across various industries. From defining project scope to managing stakeholders, from optimizing resources to mitigating risks,...
Project Management in Practice, 7th Edition presents an applied approach to the essential tools, strategies, and techniques students must understand to achieve success in their future careers. Emphasizing the technical aspects of the project management life cycle, this popular textbook offers streamlined, student-friendly coverage of project activity, risk planning, budgeting and scheduling, resource allocation, project monitoring, evaluating and closing the project, and more. Providing new and updated content throughout, the seventh edition’s concise pedagogy and hands-on focus is ideally suited for use in one-semester courses or modules on project management. Clear and precise chapters describe fundamental project management concepts while addressing the skills real-world project managers must possess to meet the strategic goals of their organizations. Integrated throughout the text are comprehensive cases that build upon the material from previous chapters—complemented by wealth of illustrative examples, tables and figures, review questions, and discussion topics designed to reinforce key information.
Successful project management is delivering your projects on time, to brief and within budget. The Definitive Guide to Project Management shows you step by step how to master the techniques of effective project management so that your projects deliver what you want, every time. Suitable for both beginners and more experienced project managers, The Definitive Guide to Project Management is the essential companion for anyone looking to develop their project management skills. Revised and improved to follow the presigious PMI certification scheme, its indispensable advice can be put to work immediately. Inside you will find key exam questions, templates and action checklists to help you at each...
For this edition, the text has been revised and updated. There are new case studies and a particular effort has been made to improve the clarity of the illustrations.
This definitive guide presents a comprehensive set of step-by-step best practice procedures for managing any type of project from concept to completion. It is not academic, it is not of a general nature, but provides working standards and practices in the recognised project management areas.
Modern projects are confronted with complexity and ambiguity. To provide a holistic framework, this book presents a new project management model that is used to identify the nature of a project and develop appropriate project solutions. It also allows a circular planning process, leading to coherence across the project’s elements.