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One-stop guide to effectively manage and lead projects successfully the first time.

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• Introduction
• About This Book
• Who Should Read This Book?
• How This Book Is Organized
• Conventions Used in This Book
• I Project Management Jumpstart
• 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
• 2 The Project Manager
• One Title, Many Roles
• Key Skills of Project Managers
• Qualities of Successful Project Managers
• 15 Common Mistakes of Project Managers
• 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
• II Project Planning
• 4 Defining a Project
• Setting the Stage for Success
• How Does Defining a Project Relate to Project Planning?
• Project Definition Document
• Project Definition Checklist
• 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
• 6 Developing the Work Breakdown Structure
• What Is a WBS Exactly?
• Why Is the WBS Important?
• The Process of Building a WBS
• 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
• 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
• 9 Determining the Project Budget
• The Impact of the Project Budget
• Principles of an Effective Budget
• Creating a Project Budget
• Common Budget Challenges
• III Project Control
• 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
• 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

Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics

Absolute Beginner's Guide to Project Management About the Author

Gregory M. Horine is a published author ( PMP Exam Cram 2 ) and certified project management and business technology professional (PMP, CCP) with more than 16 years of consulting experience across multiple industries. His primary areas of professional expertise include

Project management and leadership

Complex application development

Enterprise solution development

Business process analysis and improvement

Data analysis and transformation

Package implementation and integration

Vendor and procurement management

Regulatory and process compliance

Project management tools

Computer systems validation

Testing processes

Quality and risk management

In addition, Mr. Horine holds a master's degree in computer science from Ball State University and a bachelor's degree in both marketing and computer science from Anderson College (Anderson, IN).

Through his "servant leadership" approach, Mr. Horine has established a track record of empowering his teammates, improving project communications, overcoming technical and political obstacles, and successfully completing projects that meet the targeted objectives.

Mr. Horine is grateful for the guidance and the opportunities that he has received from many mentors throughout his career. Their patience and influence has resulted in a rewarding career that has been marked by continuous learning and improvement.

You can access a recent interview of Mr. Horine by the Canadian Information Processing Society (CIPS) and the Networking Professionals Association (NPA) at these respective websites:

http://www.npanet.org/public/interviews/careers_interview_121.cfm

http://www.stephenibaraki.com/cips/feb04/ghor.asp

When not engaged in professional endeavors, Mr. Horine hones his project management skills at home with his lovely wife, Mayme, and his five incredible children: Michael, Victoria, Alex, Luke, and Elayna.

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