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Why learn project management the hard way? Absolute Beginner's Guide to Project Management, Second Edition will have you managing projects in no time! Here's a small sample of what you'll learn: Key concepts and fundamentals behind best-practice project management techniques The minds...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Horine, Greg
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Indianapolis, Ind. : Que, ©2009.
Edición:2nd ed.
Temas:
Project management.
Gestion de projet.
Project management
Acceso en línea:Texto completo (Requiere registro previo con correo institucional)
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Table of Contents
  • Introduction
  • About This Book
  • Who Should Read This Book?
  • How This Book Is Organized
  • Conventions Used in This Book
  • I: Project Management Jumpstart
  • 1 Project Management Overview
  • What Is Project Management ... Exactly?
  • What Is the Value of Project Management?
  • Why Are Projects Challenging?
  • Growing Demand for Effective Project Managers?
  • Trends in Project Management
  • 2 The Project Manager
  • One Title, Many Roles
  • Key Skills of Project Managers
  • Qualities of Successful Project Managers
  • 15 Common Mistakes of Project Managers
  • 3 Essential Elements for Any Successful Project
  • What Exactly Is a "Successful" Project?
  • Learning from Troubled Projects
  • Learning from Successful Projects
  • Essential Project Manager Toolkit
  • II: Project Planning
  • 4 Defining a Project
  • Setting the Stage for Success
  • How Does Defining a Project Relate to Project Planning?
  • Project Definition Document
  • Project Definition Checklist
  • 5 Planning a Project
  • Key Project Planning Principles
  • Important Questions Project Planning Should Answer
  • Building a Project Plan
  • Summary of Supplemental Project Plan Components
  • Project Plan Checklist
  • 6 Developing the Work Breakdown Structure
  • What Is a WBS Exactly?
  • Why Is the WBS Important?
  • The Process of Building a WBS
  • 7 Estimating the Work
  • Next Step in the Schedule Development Process
  • Managing the Risk, Managing the Estimates
  • Reasons for Estimating Woes
  • Powerful Estimating Techniques and Methods
  • Best Practices
  • 8 Developing the Project Schedule
  • The Impact of the Project Schedule
  • The Goal of the Schedule Development Process
  • Key Inputs for Building a Schedule
  • Creating a Schedule
  • 9 Determining the Project Budget
  • The Impact of the Project Budget
  • Principles of an Effective Budget
  • Creating a Project Budget
  • Common Budget Challenges
  • III: Project Control
  • 10 Controlling a Project
  • What Is Project Control?
  • Management Fundamentals for Project Control
  • Powerful Techniques for Project Control
  • Performance Reporting
  • Variance Responses
  • Leveraging Earned Value Management Concepts
  • Common Project Control Challenges
  • Lessons from Project Recoveries
  • 11 Managing Project Changes
  • What Exactly Is a Project Change and What's the Big Deal Anyway?
  • Fundamentals for Managing Project Change
  • What Causes Unplanned Scope Changes?
  • Essential Elements of a Project Change Control System
  • Powerful Techniques for Minimizing Project Changes
  • Common Project Change Control Challenges
  • 12 Managing Project Deliverables
  • "Managing Project Deliverables" Means What Exactly?
  • Why Do This? It's Too Much Work
  • Identify, Protect, and Track: The Principles of Managing Work Products
  • Best Practices
  • Configuration Management Plan
  • Common Challenges and Pitfalls
  • 13 Managing Project Issues
  • The Goals, Objectives, and Principles of Project Issue Management
  • Key Features of Issue Management System
  • Options for Issue Log
  • Best Practices
  • Some Special Situations
  • 14 Managing Project Risks
  • Key Risk Management Principles
  • The Essential Process for Managing Project Risks.

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