How to manage projects
essential project management skills to deliver on-time, on-budget results
- ISBN: 9781398621565
- Editorial: Kogan Page Ltd.
- Fecha de la edición: 2025
- Lugar de la edición: London. Reino Unido
- Colección: Creating Success
- Encuadernación: Rústica
- Medidas: 22 cm
- Nº Pág.: 216
- Idiomas: Inglés
Are you overwhelmed by project management jargon? Interested in developing a project management career, but bewildered by the plethora of costly courses and qualifications? Then this is the book for you.
How to Manage Projects explains the fundamentals of this essential skill in a clear, practical and accessible way, making it the perfect introduction to managing better projects in your current role, or even that first step to developing a professional career as a project manager.
This new 3rd edition features practical exercises and top tips, and takes you through successfully and confidently managing a project from conception to completion. Essential reading for anyone who wants to manage their own projects well without all the unnecessary jargon, How to Manage Projects makes this vital skill easily accessible with one handy, easy-to-use book.
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Section - 00: Introduction
Chapter - 01: Project success is more than just one thing
Section - 02: The accidental project manager – What is this going to take?
Section - 03: Where does a project manager fit in the organization? The role of the PMO
Section - 04: Project governance
Section - 05: Project scope – Defining it, managing it, changing it and avoiding creep
Section - 06: The project quality plan
Section - 07: Different types of project lifecycle models
Section - 08: Planning the project – Schedule management (time management)
Section - 09: The project staffing plan
Section - 10: Design and configuration management
Section - 11: Cost planning and cost management
Section - 12: The project’s supply chain plan
Section - 13: Project execution – Tracking, updating, reporting and acceptance
Section - 14: Evaluation, lessons learnt and improving the next project