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Are you overwhelmed by project management jargon? Interested in developing a project management career, but bewildered by the plethora of costly courses and qualifications? Then this is the book for you. How to Manage Projects explains the fundamentals of this essential skill in a clear, practical and accessible way, making it the perfect introduction to managing better projects in your current role, or even that first step to developing a professional career as a project manager.
This new 2nd edition features practical exercises and top tips, and takes you through successfully and confidently managing a project from conception to completion. Essential reading for anyone who wants to manage their own projects well without all the unnecessary jargon, How to Manage Projects makes this vital skill easily accessible with one handy, easy-to-use book. The Creating Success series of books.
. . Unlock vital skills, power up your performance and get ahead with the bestselling Creating Success series. Written by experts for new and aspiring managers and leaders, this million-selling collection of accessible and empowering guides will get you up to speed in no time. Packed with clever thinking, smart advice and the kind of winning techniques that really get results, you'll make fast progress, quickly reach your goals and create lasting success in your career.
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- Höfundur: Paul J Fielding
- Útgáfa:2
- Útgáfudagur: 2022-07-03
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- Format:ePub
- ISBN 13: 9781398606258
- Print ISBN: 9781398606166
- ISBN 10: 1398606251
Efnisyfirlit
- Cover: How to Manage Projects
- How to Manage Projects
- Creating Success Series
- Title Page
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- About the author
- Acknowledgements
- 01 Project success is more than just one thing
- How to use this book
- 02 The accidental project manager: What is this going to take?
- What is a project?
- A short, practical definition of what is a project manager: superhero!
- Self-inventory: do I have what it takes to be a project manager?
- 03 Where does a project manager fit in the organization?: The role of the PMO
- If a PMO exists
- What if a PMO does not exist?
- 04 Project governance
- Governance team guidance
- The project’s governance team: fit and function
- The governance team: form
- The governance team: operational considerations
- 05 Project scope: Defining it, managing it, changing it and avoiding creep
- Defining the scope
- Buy-in
- Change control
- Involve your friendly organizational lawyer
- 06 The project quality plan
- Meet the customer’s requirements
- Small mistakes enable big successes (aka prototyping)
- Design for tolerance of variation and interactions
- Regulatory and compliance plan
- 07 Different types of project lifecycle models
- The classic waterfall project lifecycle (aka the predictive method)
- The V-model
- The rapid prototyping lifecycle
- The Agile concept
- The blended lifecycle – reality
- 08 Planning the project: Schedule management (time management)
- What is an activity?
- Sequencing the activities
- Estimating the durations of the activities
- Scheduling the activities
- Managing the schedule
- 09 The project staffing plan
- Staffing
- Defining the resource need – skill traceability
- Schedule timing and resource loading
- Resource management
- 10 Design and configuration management
- A deadly serious example
- So who is responsible for managing configuration management?
- Formally defining configuration management
- Configuration management and project requirements
- Design traceability matrix
- Capturing the configuration and the supporting system for using it
- 11 Cost planning and cost management
- Tendencies towards managing outcomes and money
- Current data, historical data and estimates vs contracted prices
- The project plan, the components and your organization
- Cost management, or driving through the rear-view mirror
- 12 The project’s supply chain plan
- A note on vertical integration
- Take a balanced approach
- How to develop a supply chain plan
- 13 Project execution: Tracking, updating, reporting and acceptance
- The best-laid plans – and doing better than the best-laid plans
- Re-planning and monitoring
- Tracking frequency
- Types of check-in
- Keeping everyone current
- Upward reporting
- Getting acceptance
- 14 Evaluation, lessons learnt and improving the next project
- When boring has exciting implications
- Evaluate like an airline
- Where does a project evaluation fit?
- The accidental, not-so-accidentally successful project manager
- Praise for How To Manage Projects
- All the books in the Creating Success series
- Copyright Page
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