Project Management Essentials For Dummies, Australian and New Zealand Edition
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Portny Stanley E.. Project Management Essentials For Dummies, Australian and New Zealand Edition
Introduction
Chapter 1. Project Management: The Key to Achieving Results
Taking on a Project
Avoiding the Pitfalls
Deciding if the Job Is a Project
The Project Manager’s Role
Adopting a Project Methodology
Understanding Project Stages
Breaking the Project into Stages
Chapter 2. 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 3. Knowing the Stakeholders
Managing Stakeholders
Handling Opposition
Chapter 4. Planning with Deliverables First
Seeing the Logic
Knowing What a Product Is
Finding Good Product Names
Using a Business Project Example
Using a Structured Product List
Unleashing WFD Power
Chapter 5. You Want This Project Done When?
Moving to Activities
Drawing Up an Activity Network
Understanding Float
Identifying the Critical Path
Being Precise with Dependencies
Working with the Network
Going for Gantt
Chapter 6. Looking at Resources
Seeing the Need for Plans
Planning the Staff Resource
Determining Physical Resources
Making Sense of Budgets
Chapter 7. Planning at Different Times and Levels
Putting in the Main Structure
Working with Planning Levels
Chapter 8. Managing the Risk
Understanding Risk
Working Through the Risk Cycle
Writing a Risk Management Plan
Using Risk Techniques
Chapter 9. Organising the Project
Designing the Project Structure
Looking at the Organisation
Chapter 10. Working with Teams and Specialists
Working with Others
Delegating Project Assignments
Chapter 11. Tracking Progress and Staying in Control
Understanding Progress Control
Harnessing Product Power
Preparing a Comms Plan
Taking Action When Off Track
Monitoring Work and Costs
Dealing with Change
Chapter 12. Closing the Project
Staying the Course to Completion
Planning Closure
Providing a Good Transition
Reviewing the Project
Passing Work On
Chapter 13. Ten Questions to Ask Yourself for Project Planning
What Are the Objectives?
Who Do You Need to Involve?
What Will You Produce?
Are There Any Constraints?
What Are the Assumptions?
What Work Has to Be Done?
When Will Each Activity Happen?
Who Will Do the Project Work?
Do You Need Other Resources?
What Can Go Wrong?
About the Authors
Dedications
Authors’ Acknowledgements
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Projects have been around since ancient times. Noah building the ark, Leonardo da Vinci painting the Mona Lisa, Edward Gibbon writing The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire and Dr Fiona Wood inventing spray-on skin for burn victims – all projects. And, as you know, these projects were all masterful successes. (Well, the products were a spectacular success, even if schedules and resource budgets were sometimes overrun!)
Why, then, is the topic of project management of such great interest today? The answer is simple: The audience has changed and the stakes are higher.
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Project Management Essentials For Dummies is an introductory guide to project management that covers the essentials. But don’t be misled – the text still navigates all the critical tools and techniques you’ll need to support your project planning, scheduling, budgeting, organising and controlling.
Each chapter is self-contained, so you can read the chapters that interest you the most first, without feeling lost because you haven’t read the book from front to back.
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