Project management essentials you always wanted to know / Kalpesh Ashar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ashar, Kalpesh, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Project management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (186 pages)

Edition:

Fifth edition.

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Vibrant Publishers, [2022]

Summary:

• Simplified explanation of concepts • Chapter Summaries • Solutions to Practice Exercises • Practical approaches for application • Best Practices • Project Management Templates A short, simple, and practical guide to understanding how to manage all kinds of projects! As employees move into a project management role, they need to learn new skills. These would include management of several different dimensions of a project to deliver the project successfully. Project Management Essentials You Always Wanted to Know: 5th Edition provides the core information about how to manage the complexity of modern projects with improved easy-to-understand explanations, a new WBS template and a new chapter on Agile. The new edition, includes topics such as: • Project management overview • Project Initiation - Constraints, Stakeholders, PMO, Life Cycles • Project Planning - WBS,CPM, Budgeting, Quality, Resources, Communications, • Risk, Procurement, Stakeholders • Project Execution - Audits, Resources, Communications • Project Monitoring & Controlling - Tracking, Quality Control, Change Control • Project Closure • Agile Overview (new) About the Series The Self-Learning Management series is designed to help students, new managers, career switchers and entrepreneurs learn essential management lessons. This series is designed to address every aspect of business from HR to Finance to Marketing to Operations, be it any industry. Each book includes basic fundamentals, important concepts, standard and well-known principles as well as practical ways of application of the subject matter. The distinctiveness of the series lies in that all the relevant information is bundled in a compact form that is very easy to interpret.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright Page

About the Author

What experts say about this book!

Preface

Who can benefit from the book

How to use this book

Helpful Templates

Table of Contents

1 Project Management Overview

1.1 Project Definition

1.2 Reasons for Starting a Project

1.3 Project Management

1.4 Program &amp

Portfolio

1.5 Project Management Office (PMO)

1.6 Management by Objectives (MBO)

1.7 Constraints

1.8 Stakeholders

1.9 Organizational Structures

1.10 Life Cycles

1.11 Project Management Phases

Solved Examples

Practice Exercises

Chapter Summary

2 Project Initiation

2.1 Project Selection

2.2 Project Charter

2.3 Identification of Stakeholders

3 Project Planning - 1

3.1 Scope Planning

3.2 Time Planning

Case Study

4 Project Planning - 2

4.1 Cost Planning

4.2 Quality Planning

4.3 Human Resource Planning

4.4 Communications Planning

4.5 Risk Planning

4.6 Procurement Planning

4.7 Approval and Kickoff Meeting

5 Project Execution

5.1 Resource Mobilization

5.2 Perform Project Execution

5.3 Team Management

5.4 Quality Audits and Improvements

5.5 Project Communications

5.6 Stakeholder Management

5.7 Procurement &amp

Contracting

6 Project Monitoring and Controlling

6.1 Monitoring

6.2 Control

6.3 Schedule and Cost Tracking

6.4 Project Reporting

6.5 Quality Control

6.6 Risk Monitoring

6.7 Gaining Acceptance

6.8 Managing Contracts

6.9 Handling Changes

Chapter Summary.

7 Project Closure

7.1 Closing Contracts

7.2 Closing Project

8 Agile Overview

8.1 What is Agile?

8.2 Need for Agile

8.3 Agile Characteristics

8.4 Agile Myths

8.5 Agile Manifesto

8.6 Agile Methodologies

Glossary.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781636510729

1636510728

OCLC:

1479752359