Improve Your Project Management [electronic resource].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baguley, Phil.

Series:

Teach Yourself Business Skills

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Project management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (290 p.)

Place of Publication:

London : Hodder Education, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Thie book will equip you will all the skills you need to become a great Project Manager!

Contents:

Cover; Book title; Contents; Only got a minute?; Only got five minutes?; Introduction; 1 Projects, projects and projects; Projects old and new; Projects now; How and why; Big or small; Concrete or ideas; Work and play; The Five Fundamentals; Definitions; The project boundaries; The project life cycle; Project priorities; Projects and people; What next?; Top ten messages; 2 Which project?; Choice; Uncertainty and risk; Identify the risk; Reducing the risk; Yes or no; Choosing; Choosing without numbers; Choosing by numbers; What next?; Top ten messages; 3 Your project organization; Organizing

OrganizationsStructures, leaders and people; Projects and organizations - the differences; What sort of project organization?; Project aspects; Project organizations; Your project organization; Programme or portfolio?; Project procedures and specifications; What next?; Top ten messages; 4 Plans for your project; Planning - now or never; Projects and planning; Interdependency; Bars and charts; Networks; Activity on Arrow (AOA) networks; Activity on Node (AON) networks; Resources; Activity slack; What did we do last time?; Project planning with computers; What next?; Top ten messages

5 Managing your projectManagement; Managing projects versus day-to-day management; Projects and managers; Leaders and leadership; Project managers and communication; Project communications; Project managers and negotiation; Negotiating and bargaining; Ways and means; Project managers and motivation; What next?; Top ten messages; 6 Your project team; Why teams?; What is a team?; Good teams and bad teams; How many; Who - and why; The team charter; Team building; Project teams; What next?; Top ten messages; 7 Managing your project money; Money, money and money; Cost, cost and more cost

Hunches, guesstimates and estimatesInformation, data, facts and figures; Top-down or bottom-up; Top-down; Bottom-up; Below and above the line; Budgets; What next?; Top ten messages; 8 Monitoring and controlling your project; Full steam ahead; Monitoring; Project monitoring - what and when; The project plan and monitoring; Milestones; Limits; ABC analysis; The project budget and monitoring; Earned Value; Monitoring - reports and meetings; Controlling; What next?; Top ten messages; 9 Solving your project problems; Problems, problems and problems; A perfect world; Frequency and consequence

Logic or intuitionA nominal group; Force Field analysis; The Ishikawa diagram; Pareto analysis; CUSUM technique; Multiple Cause Diagrams; What next?; Top ten messages; 10 Closing your project; Endings; Closure and the project manager; The closure process; Closing the team; Closing the project data banks; Activity completion; Project outcomes; Project histories; Project audits; Post-project appraisals; What next?; Top ten messages; 11 Small projects; Small, medium or large?; What is small?; Small - a definition; Differences; Choosing a small project; Organizing a small project

Planning for the small project

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-282-95736-8

9786612957369

1-4441-2484-6

OCLC:

701704396