- Simplified Project Management concepts
- Practical approaches to be applied to projects
- Best Practices used in contemporary projects
- Project Management Templates
Project Management Essentials You Always Wanted To Know covers Project Management concepts in concise and easy-to-understand manner for both practising and budding Project Managers. This book includes PRACTICAL APPROACHES and BEST PRACTICES, including TEMPLATES, to be applied to contemporary projects.
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The topics covered are:
(a) Overview of Project Management
(b) Project Initiation - Constraints, Stakeholders, PMO, Life Cycles
(c) Project Planning - WBS, PERT/CPM, Budgeting, Risk
(d) Project Execution - Audits, HR, Communications
(e) Project Monitoring & Controlling - Tracking, Quality Control, Change Control
(f) Project Closure
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Inhalt
Helpful Templates
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
2. Project Initiation
Project Selection
Project Charter
Identification of Stakeholders
Solved Examples
Practice Exercise
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
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
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
6. Project Closure
Closing Contracts
Closing Project
Solved Examples
Practice Exercise
Glossary