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The Principles Of Project Management
"Finally, a common sense approach to project management in less than 200 pages!"
You don’t need to sit through months of boring lectures, painstakingly work your way through 1,000 page plus monstrosities, or take an exam to become project manager. Learn only what really matters with The Principles of Project Management.
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Overview
Every project you manage will be unique. Scope, budgets, team dynamics, and timeframes will differ. As a project manager, the most important factor in achieving project success will be your understanding of 'The Principles Of Project Management'. This book will show you that project management isn’t rocket science: using the information contained in this book, you’ll deliver projects on time and on budget, again and again.
Who Is the Author?
Meri Williams
Meri spends her days managing projects at a large multinational corporation, and her evenings writing at Geek|Manager and developing web sites. She loves going home to beautiful South Africa whenever possible and in her spare time she is an enthusiastic gamer, a novice surfer, and a keen cook.
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What Will You Learn?
With The Principles Of Project Management you’ll:
- Learn how to start every project on the right foot.
- Master the planning, execution, and control of your projects.
- Discover the secrets of effective communication and change management.
- Identify project warning signals and learn to keep your projects on track.
- Understand the benefits of using the right tools, resources, and people.
- Learn how to give a superstar project handover.
- And much, much more…
What’s Inside?
So What Is Project Management Anyway?
This chapter forms an introduction to the art and science of project management.
Here, we talk about the key phases that every project goes through and why project
management skills are increasingly important today.
Getting Started
This chapter covers everything from picking the right projects, and working out
who needs to be involved, through to kick-starting the project itself.
Getting the Job Done
In this chapter, we discuss the real meat of any project—planning what needs
to be done, executing the work, and controlling the project as a whole to keep
things on track.
Keeping It Smooth
Here, we’ll look at communication, collaboration, and how best to deal with change. This chapter is all about the softer side of project management—the
skills that make you not just competent, but great.
Following Through
To wrap up, we’ll look at what’s involved in successfully finishing off your
project and handing over like a superstar.
Who Should Read This Book?
The Principles Of Project Management is ideal for anyone who wants to learn enough project management to ensure their projects succeed. Although some of the examples in this book focus on projects that address technological or systems-related issues—a growing industry in need of skilled project managers!—the book is intended for anyone who needs to manage projects of any sort.
That said, this book won’t teach you to manage the construction of the next space shuttle. For very large and very complex projects, you will probably need a few extra tools—we talk about some of these advances tools in the book.
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Customer Reviews
Live, unmoderated reviews from our customers, typos and all.
Clearly written with helpful guidelines. The case example is in line with the type of projects that I'm exposed to.
Karen Hamilton, Canada 
to point: had downloaded the ebook a while back & a great offer came up for the print version over the holidays so had to grab that also. Nice to have at reach when I'm not connected to a computer or reader for quick reference & getting back on plan. I have other PM writings with broader/detail content, but I like the quick brevity of Meri's text. Personable style yet with expert insightful content.
Frank Soto, USA 
The reason why I bought the book was to better understand PM's and how to make the next project a success i.o. a miserable failure.
I think the author manages to keep a steady rhythm and offers a lot of practical advice to start rethinking the way every team member should contribute to a project. Again the informal style which tries to avoid paternalistic tutoring helps in accepting the ideas in an open way. Nice.
erwin geeraerts, USA
Very timely purchase as my employer has requested I submit my web work under project management contract. Excellent advice and well organized content. Easy to read for comprehension.
Like the index where I can turn to relevant info anytime.
shirley busby, USA
I don't need to comment on the content of the book beyond a simple "it's excellent". What I do need to comment on is the horrible spelling. Often times the author sprinkles a "to" seemingly after every other word and then when it's actually needed it's not there, not to mention the instances of "it's" where it should be "its". Did this book receive no spell checking at all or what?
Arne T., Germany, Germany
I have not yet received the book as the book is still in transit to Australia, yet I received an email ( Wed 28/05/2008 ) requesting a live review ?! Without seeing it I would rate it a 7 and I would be more than likely to buy from your company again if there was some sort of email alert service I could sign up to that alerted me to new Prince2 resources.
regards
Nick Duncan
Nick Duncan, Australia 
Great book, a must read for project management beginners as well as project management professionals already being bored from PMBOK etc...
A real refreshing approach to project management, covering all the topics that really matter.
Christian Metzler, Austria
Product Details
| Edition: |
1st |
| Price: | $39.95 |
| Pages: | 200 |
| ISBN: | 978-0-9802858-6-4 |
| Published: | March 2008 |
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