Project Management Books

Advanced Project Management Techniques $49.95

Practical Proven Techniques for Larger Projects

  • Defining success in clear unambiguous terms
  • Negotiating scope with multiple stakeholders an manage their expectations
  • Managing a team from different functional areas
  • Estimate work, duration and cost
  • Gain team member commitment to estimates
  • Build an optimized MS Project schedule
  • Track progress and report status
  • Earned value management
  • Risk Management identification, mitigation and tracking
See the techniques applied to a large scale project where the PM writes plans that make expectations crystal clear. The book is designed for teams drawn from multiple departments like operations, design, copy writing, customer service, finance, sales, marketing and other departments.
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Advanced Project Techniques $49.95

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Contents and Sample Pages

Project Planning

  • Negotiating techniques
  • Uncovering requirements
  • Crafting the WBS

Read about conducting project planning meetings with executives with examples of exactly how to ask questions of these stakeholders, define your scope and requirements, following a proven methodology

Advanced Techniques

  • Risk management
  • Estimating time & cost
  • Motivating your team

Read about and see examples of how to apply advanced techniques to your projects such as risk analysis, work packaging, and estimating

MS Project

  • Optimized schedules
  • Fine-tuning
  • Spotting problems early

You learn how to use MS Project and make your project management more effective and track progress efficiently

Templates

  • Work packages
  • WBS decomposition
  • Risk analysis

Clear instructions and diagrams for techniques with templates you can use

The book includes a chapter on managing information technology resources . You'll learn the project lifecycle from strategic planning, scope definition, budgeting, resource scheduling, contract negotiations, and process improvement. It covers work estimating, developing high-performance team cultures, tracking/reporting progress and performing variance analysis. Includes 100's of illustrations and step-by-step instructions for Microsoft Project 2008®. 233 pages, 11 by 8½, soft cover spiral-bound.

 

 

 

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