Project management for dummies / by Nick Graham and Stanley E. Portny.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Graham, Nick.

Contributor:

Portny, Stanley E. (Stanley Erwin)

Series:

--For dummies.

--For dummies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Project management.

Industrial management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (411 p.)

Edition:

UK ed.

Place of Publication:

Chichester, West Sussex : John Wiley, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In today's time-pressured, cost-conscious global business environment, tight project deadlines and stringent expectations are the norm. Project Management For Dummies shows business professionals what works and what doesn't by examining the field's best practices. You can learn how to organise, estimate, and schedule projects more efficiently. Discover how to manage deliverables, issue changes, assess risks, maintain communications, and live up to expectations by making the most of the latest technology and software and by avoiding common problems that can trip up even the best project

Contents:

Project Management For Dummies®, UK Edition; Contents at a Glance; Table of Contents; Introduction; About This Book; Conventions Used in This Book; What You're Not to Read; Foolish Assumptions; How This Book Is Organised; Icons Used in This Book; Where to Go from Here; Part I: Understanding Projects and What You Want to Achieve; Chapter 1: Project Management: The Key to Achieving Results; Taking on a Project; Avoiding the Pitfalls; Deciding Whether the Job Is Really a Project; Defining the Project Manager's Role; Do You Have What It Takes?; Chapter 2: Thinking Through the Life of Your Project

Being MethodicalBreaking the Project Down into Stages or Phases; Understanding the Four Main Stages; Chapter 3: Defining the Project and Producing a Business Case; Defining the Scope; Producing a Business Case; Going Back to the Scope; Getting to Grips with Techniques; Chapter 4: Knowing Your Project's Stakeholders; Managing Stakeholders; Handling Opposition; Handling Multiple-Stakeholder Projects; Part II: Building the Plans; Chapter 5: Planning with Deliverables First; Seeing the Logic of Product Planning; Knowing What a Product Is - and Isn't; Finding Good Product Names

Using a Business Project ExampleUsing a Structured Product List; Unleashing the Power of the Work Flow Diagram; Chapter 6: You Want This Project Done When?; Moving From Products to Activities; Drawing Up a First Activity Network; Understanding Float and Its Impact; Identifying the Critical Path; Being More Precise with Dependencies; Working with the Activity Network; Going for Gantt; Estimating Activity Durations; Chapter 7: Looking At Staff Resources; Seeing Why You Need to Plan Staff Use; Matching People to Tasks; Honing Your Task Duration Estimates; Smoothing the Resource

Chapter 8: Planning for Other Resources and Developing the BudgetDetermining Physical Resource Needs; Making Sense of Costs and Budgets; Chapter 9: Planning at Different Times and Levels; Putting the Main Structure in Place; Working with Planning Levels; Chapter 10: Venturing into the Unknown: Dealing with Risk and Uncertainty; Understanding Risks and Risk Management; Working Through the Risk Cycle; Documenting Risk; Getting Some Help from Techniques; Part III: Putting Your Management Team Together; Chapter 11: Organising the Project; Designing the Project Organisation Structure

Defining Three Organisational EnvironmentsChapter 12: Working With Teams and Specialists; Working With Others; Understanding Teams; Making Project Assignments; Showing Roles with a Responsibility Assignment Matrix; Dealing with Micromanagement; Chapter 13: Being an Ef fective Leader; Practising Management and Leadership; Knowing What Motivates, and also What Demotivates; Developing Your Teams; Stoking the Boilers; Part IV: Steering the Project to Success; Chapter 14: Tracking Progress and Staying in Control; Understanding What Underpins Effective Progress Control

Harnessing Product Power for Progress Control

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9786613651815

9780470972984

047097298X

9781280674884

1280674881

9780470972199

047097219X

OCLC:

775868503