This book presents a chronological approach to managing small, medium, and large projects, and is suitable for all majors, including business, engineering, healthcare, and more. Packed with ready-made forms for managing every stage in any project, this book offers both new and experienced project managers an invaluable resource for thorough documentation and repeatable processes.
This book helps you stay organized and on-track, helping you ensure thorough documentation throughout the project life cycle. This title is best viewed on devices with a larger screen area.
The all-inclusive guide to exceptional project management that is trusted by hundreds of thousands of readers—now updated and revised The Fast Forward MBA in Project Management: The Comprehensive, Easy to Read Handbook for Beginners and Pros, 6th Edition is a comprehensive guide to real-world project management methods, tools, and techniques. Practical, easy-to-use, and deeply thorough, this book gives you the answers you need now.
You'll find cutting-edge ideas and hard-won wisdom of one of the field's leading experts, delivered in short, lively segments that address common management issues. Brief descriptions of important concepts, tips on real-world applications, and compact case studies illustrate the most sought-after skills and pitfalls you should watch out for. The book teaches readers how to manage and deliver projects on-time and on-budget by applying the practical strategies and concrete solutions found within.
Whether the challenge is finding the right project sponsor, clarifying project objectives, or setting realistic schedules and budget projections, The Fast Forward MBA in Project Management shows you what you need to know, the best way to do it, and what to watch out for along the way.
A thoroughly updated edition of the classic guide to project management of construction projects For more than thirty years, Construction Project Management has been considered the preeminent guide to all aspects of the construction project management process, including the Critical Path Method CPM of project scheduling, and much more. Now in its Sixth Edition, it continues to provide a solid foundation of the principles and fundamentals of project management, with a particular emphasis on project planning, demonstrated through an example project, along with new pedagogical elements such as end-of-chapter problems and questions and a full suite of instructor's resources.
Readers will also benefit from building construction examples, which illustrate each of the principles of project management. This information, combined with the case studies provided in the appendix, gives readers access to hands-on project management experience in the context of real-world project management problems. Features two integrated example projects—one civil and one commercial—fully developed through the text Includes end-of-chapter questions and problems Details BIM in scheduling procedures, Lean Construction, and Earned Value Analysis, EVA Provides teaching resources, including PowerPoint slides, interactive diagrams, and an Instructor's Manual with solutions for the end-of-chapter questions Construction Management and Civil Engineering students and professionals alike will find everything they need, to understand and to master construction project management in this classic guide.
Presents an introduction to the concepts of project management, discussing such topics as project definition, planning, implementation, methods of control, budgets, teamwork, and common problems. This book is a great textbook for college and university students who want to learn more about project management as well as for practitioners in the field.
This practical guide discusses estimating, purchasing, contract administration, team management, quality control and quality assurance, safety, and other topics essential to completing a project on time and within budget. The project management profession has significantly evolved due to emerging technology, new approaches and rapid market changes. This edition is designed to address practitioners' current and future needs and to help them be more proactive, innovative and nimble in enabling desired project outcomes.
A new edition of the most popular book of project management case studies, expanded to include more than cases plus a "super case" on the Iridium Project Case studies are an important part of project management education and training. This Fourth Edition of Harold Kerzner's Project Management Case Studies features a number of new cases covering value measurement in project management.
Also included is the well-received "super case," which covers all aspects of project management and may be used as a capstone for a course. Fourth Edition. The practical e-guide that gives you the skills to succeed as a project manager. Discover how to improve your project management skills by defining a project brief, identifying stakeholders, and building a strong team. Every project manager has a budget to adhere to. Cost management involves estimating project activity costs, creating the project budget, tracking project expenditures, and keeping overruns to a minimum.
Quality refers to how closely the project deliverables adheres to the stakeholders' requirements. Quality management includes the processes for creating, managing, and executing quality policies. The goal of this knowledge area is to ensure high quality on the project. Resource refers to the people and materials that you will need to complete the project.
Resource management includes the processes to identify the types of resources needed, going out and acquiring the required resources, and managing them throughout the project lifecycle. Project team members communicate with each other to ordinate on project tasks and discuss project strategies.
Communications management includes the processes that ensures the planning, distribution, storage and management of project information is done properly. Risk is an uncertain event that may or may not happen in the future.
A risk can be positive or negative. Risk management includes the processes of identifying and analyzing new risks as well as planning and implementing risk responses. When a project team cannot produce something in-house, they have to obtain a third-party vendor to do it for them.
The processes required to obtain and manage the vendors are called Procurement Management. A stakeholder is anyone who has an interest or stake in your project. Stakeholder management includes the processes required to identify your project stakeholders, analyze their power and impact, and develop appropriate strategies to manage them effectively. The project management process groups are a logical grouping of project management processes to achieve specific project objectives.
Process groups are independent of project phases. Each process has a corresponding knowledge area and process group. Agile originated from the software industry in the early s, and now it is being implemented in a variety of different industries such as education, manufacturing and healthcare.
Agile offers organizations a competitive advantage by being flexible and able to respond to changes quickly. Agile is an umbrella term comprising of a number of different approaches e.
The Agile Practice Guide provides an understanding of various agile approaches along with the tools needed to implement them. Increasingly, it's become vital for project managers who are used to working in the traditional environment to learn and understand agile, especially those who want to work in the IT industry. To obtain your copy, you simply need to login to your online PMI portal, go to your myPMI dashboard, and you can download it from there. In addition to getting the guide in PDF for free, you will also be saving on exam fees.
There will be Process Tailoring, which implies analyzing the project to determine how much emphasis shall be laid on each process based on the scope and size of the project. This concept will be emphasized for the first time in sixth edition. The Project Scope vs. Product Scope concept will also be emphasized for the firs t time. There will be a distinction between "Communication" communication between two people and "Communications" artifacts, such as published e -mails.
Project Managers will now be encouraged to prepare updates on a frequent basis not just at the end of the project. The standard has more voluntary instead of mandatory tone in some areas. Choose any of these that best might fit your current project.
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