- Simplified explanation of concepts
- Chapter Summaries
- Solutions to Practice Exercises
- Practical approaches for application
- Best Practices
- Project Management Templates
A short, simple, and practical guide to understanding how to manage all kinds of projects!
As employees move into a project management role, they need to learn new skills. These would include management of several different dimensions of a project to deliver the project successfully.
Project Management Essentials You Always Wanted to Know: 5th Edition
provides the core information about how to manage the complexity of modern projects with improved easy-to-understand explanations, a new WBS template and a new chapter on Agile. The new edition, includes topics such as:
- Project management overview
- Project Initiation - Constraints, Stakeholders, PMO, Life Cycles
- Project Planning - WBS,CPM, Budgeting, Quality, Resources, Communications, Risk, Procurement, Stakeholders
- Project Execution - Audits, Resources, Communications
- Project Monitoring & Controlling - Tracking, Quality Control, Change Control
- Project Closure
- Agile Overview (new)
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, be it any industry. Each book includes basic fundamentals, important concepts, standard and well-known principles as well as 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.