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Project management essentials for dummies /

Whatever your profession, effective project management skills are crucial to developing a successful business career. This comprehensive resource will help you unlock the keys to project management success, gain the know-how to assess your strengths and weaknesses to maximise your project management...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Graham, Nick (Autor)
Otros Autores: Portny, Stanley E. (Stanley Erwin)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Milton, Qld. : Wiley Publishing Australia, [2015]
Colección:--For dummies.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo (Requiere registro previo con correo institucional)

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520 |a Whatever your profession, effective project management skills are crucial to developing a successful business career. This comprehensive resource will help you unlock the keys to project management success, gain the know-how to assess your strengths and weaknesses to maximise your project management potential, find proven ways to motivate your project team, and so much more. It will show you how to put out the fires igniting your workspace and explains how easy it is to organise, estimate and schedule projects more efficiently. You will learn how to develop your plans around a sturdy structure - from start to finish; discover how to select the right people and get the very best from your team; recognise ways to take control and steer your projects to success; get up to speed on mastering the basics of project management. --  |c Edited summary from book. 
505 0 |a Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents at a Glance; Table of Contents; Introduction; About This Book; Foolish Assumptions; Icons Used in This Book; Where to Go from Here; Chapter 1: Project Management: The Key to Achieving Results; Taking on a Project; Avoiding the Pitfalls; Deciding if the Job Is a Project; Grasping the four control areas; Recognising project diversity; The Project Manager's Role; Looking at the Project Manager's tasks; Avoiding 'shortcuts'; Adopting a Project Methodology ; Understanding Project Stages; Breaking the Project into Stages; Starting the project. 
505 8 |a Organising and preparingManaging delivery stages; Closing the project; Chapter 2: Defining the Project and Producing a Business Case; Defining the Scope ; Managing expectations; Challenging the scope; Grasping the extent of scope; Being clear; Prioritising; Producing a Business Case; Getting to grips with the basics; Updating the Business Case; Justifying the project; Understanding the justification; Understanding benefits; Writing the Business Case; Going Back to the Scope; Getting to Grips with Techniques; Calculating return on investment; Understanding cost-benefit analysis. 
505 8 |a Chapter 3: Knowing the StakeholdersManaging Stakeholders; Identifying stakeholders; Analysing the stakeholders; Understanding the positions; Deciding action; Working with stakeholders; Planning the work; Handling Opposition; Solving the problems; Focusing on the common areas; Realising that you're a threat; Overriding the opposition; Chapter 4: Planning with Deliverables First; Seeing the Logic; Thinking 'product' first; Understanding the problems of an activity focus; Knowing What a Product Is; Finding Good Product Names; Using a Business Project Example; Identifying the products. 
505 8 |a Developing a sequenceDefining the products; Using a Structured Product List; Unleashing WFD Power; Managing risk; Effecting control; Showing stages; Progress reporting; Getting a picture of the project; Chapter 5: You Want This Project Done When?; Moving to Activities; Identifying multiple tasks; Listing the activities or tasks; Drawing Up an Activity Network; Building a network; Using the Work Flow Diagram; Putting in the time durations; Calculating the project's length; Understanding Float; Identifying the Critical Path; Watching the critical path; Finding a split critical path. 
505 8 |a Being Precise with DependenciesKnowing the dependency types; Staying in touch with reality; Working with the Network; Working to meet end dates; Backing into the schedule; Going for Gantt ; Chapter 6: Looking at Resources; Seeing the Need for Plans; Dealing with resource conflicts; Checking availability; Monitoring use of staff; Planning the Staff Resource; Working out the needs for skills and knowledge; Growing your people; Fine-tuning your estimates; Factoring in activity timing; Thinking about productivity; Determining Physical Resources; Making Sense of Budgets; Looking at different costs. 
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