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Project Management Essentials You Always Wanted To Know (4th Edition)
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Description
- Includes Chapter Summaries and Solutions to Practice Exercises
- Simplified Project Management concepts
- Practical approaches to be applied to projects
- Best Practices used in contemporary projects
- Project Management Templates
As employees first move towards management, they typically take on management of critical projects. Project Management Essentials You Always Wanted To Know: 4th Edition provides the core information about how to manage the complexity of modern projects, including subjects such as: - A project management overview
- Project Initiation - Constraints, Stakeholders, PMO, Life Cycles
- Project Planning - WBS, PERT/CPM, Budgeting, Risk
- Project Execution - Audits, HR, Communications
- Project Monitoring & Controlling - Tracking, Quality Control, Change Control
- Project Closure
Bibliographic Details
Pages: 176 pages
Paperback (ISBN): 9781949395396
Ebook (ISBN): 9781949395402
Hardback (ISBN): 9781949395709
Trim Size: 5.5” x 8.5”
Category: Business & Economics
Author: Kalpesh Ashar, Vibrant Publishers
Table of Contents
1. Project Management Overview
Project Definition
Reasons for Starting a Project
Project Management
Program and Portfolio
Project Management Office (PMO)
Management by Objectives (MBO)
Constraints
Stakeholders
Organisational Structures
Lifecycles
Project Management Phases
Solved Examples
Practice Exercise
Chapter Summary
2. Project Initiation
Project Selection
Project Charter
Identification of Stakeholders
Solved Examples
Practice Exercise
Chapter Summary
3. Project Planning
Scope Planning
Time Planning
Cost Planning
Quality Planning
Human Resource Planning
Communications Planning
Risk Planning
Procurement Planning
Approval and Kickoff Meeting
Solved Examples
Practice Exercise
Chapter Summary
4. Project Execution
Resource Mobilisation
Perform Project Execution
Team Management
Quality Audits and Improvements
Project Communications
Stakeholder Management
Procurement and Contracting
Solved Examples
Practice Exercise
Chapter Summary
5. Project Monitoring and Controlling
Monitoring
Control
Schedule and Cost Tracking
Project Reporting
Quality Control
Risk Monitoring
Gaining Acceptance
Managing Contracts
Handling Changes
Solved Examples
Practice Exercise
Chapter Summary
6. Project Closure
Closing Contracts
Closing Project
Solved Examples
Practice Exercise
Chapter Summary
Glossary
Author
Kalpesh Ashar is a management consultant and corporate trainer holding an MBA (Dean’s Award Winner) from SPJIMR, one of Asia’s top business schools, and an Engineering degree with honors in Electronics. He has over 24 years of experience in large organizations and start-ups in Asia, USA, and Europe. Kalpesh has worked in several project management roles, like Senior Project Manager, Delivery Manager, and Program Manager. He is passionate about writing on management subjects. His techno-business background gives him a unique position to write on management topics that are easy to understand for non-MBA graduates. His books are authored in a simple to understand manner without unnecessary use of management jargons.
Vibrant Publishers is focused on presenting the best texts for learning about technology and business as well as books for test preparation. Categories include programming, operating systems and other texts focused on IT. In addition, a series of books helps professionals in their own disciplines learn the business skills needed in their professional growth.
Vibrant Publishers has a standardized test preparation series covering the GMAT, GRE and SAT, providing ample study and practice material in a simple and well organized format, helping students get closer to their dream universities.
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.
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This book does an excellent job explaining how consumers process price information. The insights are detailed and backed by solid research. A must-read!
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