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Absolute Beginner s Guide to Project Management
Absolute Beginner s Guide to Project Management
Table of Contents
Copyright
About the Author
Acknowledgments
We Want to Hear from You
Introduction
About This Book
Who Should Read This Book?
How This Book Is Organized
Conventions Used in This Book
Parti.Project Management Jumpstart
Chapter 1. Project Management Overview
What Is Project Management Exactly?
What Is the Value of Project Management?
Why Are Projects Challenging?
Growing Demand for Effective Project Managers?
Trends in Project Management
Chapter 2. The Project Manager
One Title, Many Roles
Key Skills of Project Managers
Qualities of Successful Project Managers
15 Common Mistakes of Project Managers
Chapter 3. Essential Elements for any Successful Project
What Exactly Is a Successful Project?
Learning from Troubled Projects
Learning from Successful Projects
Essential Project Manager Toolkit
Partii.Project Planning
Chapter 4. Defining a Project
Setting the Stage for Success
How Does Defining a Project Relate to Project Planning?
Project Definition Document
Project Definition Checklist
Chapter 5. Planning a Project
Key Project Planning Principles
Important Questions Project Planning Should Answer
Building a Project Plan
Summary of Supplemental Project Plan Components
Project Plan Checklist
Chapter 6. Developing the Work Breakdown Structure
What Is a WBS Exactly?
Why Is the WBS Important?
The Process of Building a WBS
Chapter 7. Estimating the Work
Next Step in the Schedule Development Process
Managing the Risk, Managing the Estimates
Reasons for Estimating Woes
Powerful Estimating Techniques and Methods
Best Practices
Chapter 8. Developing the Project Schedule
The Impact of the Project Schedule
The Goal of the Schedule Development Process
Key Inputs for Building a Schedule
Creating a Schedule
Chapter 9. Determining the Project Budget
The Impact of the Project Budget
Principles of an Effective Budget
Creating a Project Budget
Common Budget Challenges
Partiii.Project Control
Chapter 10. Controlling a Project
What Is Project Control?
Management Fundamentals for Project Control
Powerful Techniques for Project Control
Performance Reporting
Variance Responses
Leveraging Earned Value Management Concepts
Common Project Control Challenges
Lessons from Project Recoveries
Chapter 11. Managing Project Changes
What Exactly Is a Project Change and What s the Big Deal Anyway?
Fundamentals for Managing Project Change
What Causes Unplanned Scope Changes?
Essential Elements of a Project Change Control System
Powerful Techniques for Minimizing Project Changes
Common Project Change Control Challenges
Chapter 12. Managing Project Deliverables
Managing Project Deliverables Means What Exactly?

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