Includes Chapter Summaries and Solutions to Practice Exercises
Simplified Project Management concepts
Practical approaches that can 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. This comprehensive yet compact project management book includes topics such as:
Overview of project management
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
After the reader has mastered the concepts in this book, he or she will be able to complete projects faster, optimize the workload, plan and execute projects successfully, and handle the different responsibilities of the workflow easily.
About the 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, across any and every industry. Each book includes basic fundamentals, important concepts, standard and well-known principles, and 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.