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Title Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; Part I: Understanding Projects and What You Want to Achieve; Chapter 1: Success in Project Management; Chapter 2: Thinking Through the Life of Your Project; Chapter 3: Defining the Scope and Producing a Business Case; Chapter 4: Knowing Your Project's Stakeholders; Part II: Planning Time: Determining What, When and How Much; Chapter 5: Planning with Deliverables First; Chapter 6: Planning the Activities; Chapter 7: Looking At Staff Resources; Chapter 8: Planning for Other Resources and Developing the Budget
Chapter 9: Planning at Different Times and LevelsChapter 10: Venturing into the Unknown: Dealing with Risk and Uncertainty; Part III: Putting Your Management Team Together; Chapter 11: Organising the Project; Chapter 12: Working With Teams and Specialists; Chapter 13: Being an Effective Leader; Part IV: Steering the Project to Success; Chapter 14: Tracking Progress and Staying in Control; Chapter 15: Keeping Everyone Informed; Chapter 16: Bringing Your Project to Closure; Part V: Taking Your Project Management to the Next Level; Chapter 17: Managing Multiple Projects
Chapter 18: Using Technology to Up Your GameChapter 19: Monitoring Project Performance with Earned Value Management; Chapter 20: Project Governance and Why It's Really Important; Chapter 21: ISO 21500:2012; Part VI: The Part of Tens; Chapter 22: Ten Questions to Ask Yourself as You Plan Your Project; Chapter 23: Ten Tips for Writing a Convincing Business Case; Chapter 24: Ten Tips for Being a Better Project Manager; About the Authors; Cheat Sheet; More Dummies Products; End User License Agreement
From the eBook - UK ed.
Project Management For Dummies®, UK Edition --
About the Authors --
Authors' Acknowledgements --
Contents at a Glance --
Introduction --
About This Book --
Conventions Used in This Book --
What You're Not to Read --
Foolish Assumptions --
How This Book Is Organised --
Icons Used in This Book --
Where to Go from Here --
Part I. : Understanding Projects and What You Want to Achieve --
1. : Project Management: The Key to Achieving Results --
Taking on a Project --
Avoiding the Pitfalls --
Deciding Whether the Job Is Really a Project --
Defining the Project Manager's Role --
Do You Have What It Takes?Chapter 2: Thinking Through the Life of Your Project --
Being Methodical --
Breaking the Project Down into Stages or Phases --
Understanding the Four Main Stages --
3. : 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 --
4. : Knowing Your Project's Stakeholders --
Managing Stakeholders --
Handling Opposition --
Handling Multiple-Stakeholder Projects --
Part II. : Building the Plans --
5. : Planning with Deliverables First --
Seeing the Logic of Product Planning --
Knowing What a Product Is -- and Isn'tFinding Good Product Names --
Using a Business Project Example --
Using a Structured Product List --
Unleashing the Power of the Work Flow Diagram --
6. : You Want This Project Done When? --
Moving From Products to Activities --
Drawing Up a First Activity Network --
Understanding Float and Its Impact --
Identifying the Critical Path --
Being More Precise with Dependencies --
Working with the Activity Network --
Going for Gantt --
Estimating Activity Durations --
7. : Looking At Staff Resources --
Seeing Why You Need to Plan Staff Use --
Matching People to Tasks --
Honing Your Task Duration EstimatesSmoothing the Resource --
8. : Planning for Other Resources and Developing the Budget --
Determining Physical Resource Needs --
Making Sense of Costs and Budgets --
9. : Planning at Different Times and Levels --
Putting the Main Structure in Place --
Working with Planning Levels --
10. : Venturing into the Unknown: Dealing with Risk and Uncertainty --
Understanding Risks and Risk Management --
Working Through the Risk Cycle --
Documenting Risk --
Getting Some Help from Techniques --
Part III. : Putting Your Management Team Together --
11. : Organising the ProjectDesigning the Project Organisation Structure --
Defining Three Organisational Environments --
12. : Working With Teams and Specialists --
Working With Others --
Understanding Teams --
Making Project Assignments --
Showing Roles with a Responsibility Assignment Matrix --
Dealing with Micromanagement --
13. : Being an Effective Leader --
Practising Management and Leadership --
Knowing What Motivates, and also What Demotivates --
Developing Your Teams --
Stoking the Boilers --
Part IV. : Steering the Project to Success --
14. : Tracking Progress and Staying in Control --
Understanding What Underpins Effective Progress Control.
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9781119025757
047097219
9781119025740
9781322877105
9780470972199
047097219
9781119025740
9781322877105
9780470972199
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