Project Management Essentials You Always Wanted To Know

by Kalpesh Ashar, Vibrant Publishers

Overview

• 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781636510729
Publisher:	Vibrant Publishers
Publication date:	01/20/2022
Series:	Self-Learning Management Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	234
File size:	9 MB

About the Author

Kalpesh Ashar is a management consultant and corporate trainer holding an MBA (Dean's Award Winner) from SPJIMR, one of Asia's top business schools, and an Engineering degree with honors in Electronics. He has over 24 years of experience in large organizations and start-ups in Asia, USA, and Europe.Kalpesh has worked in several project management roles, like Senior Project Manager, Delivery Manager, and Program Manager. He is passionate about writing on management subjects. His techno-business background gives him a unique position to write on management topics that are easy to understand for non-MBA graduates. His books are authored in a simple to understand manner without unnecessary use of management jargons.
Vibrant Publishers is focused on presenting the best texts for learning about technology and business as well as books for test preparation. Categories include programming, operating systems and other texts focused on IT. In addition, a series of books helps professionals in their own disciplines learn the business skills needed in their professional growth. Vibrant Publishers has a standardized test preparation series covering the GMAT, GRE and SAT, providing ample study and practice material in a simple and well organized format, helping students get closer to their dream universities.

Table of Contents

1 Project Management Overview

1.1 Project Definition 

1.2 Reasons for Starting a Project 

1.3 Project Management 

1.4 Program & Portfolio 

1.5 Project Management Office (PMO) 

1.6 Management by Objectives (MBO) 

1.7 Constraints 

1.8 Stakeholders 

1.9 Organizational Structures 

1.10 Life Cycles 

1.11 Project Management Phases 

2 Project Initiation

2.1 Project Selection 

2.2 Project Charter 

2.3 Identification of Stakeholders 

3 Project Planning - 1

3.1 Scope Planning 

3.2 Time Planning 

4 Project Planning - 2

4.1 Cost Planning 

4.2 Quality Planning 

4.3 Human Resource Planning 

4.4 Communications Planning 

4.5 Risk Planning 

4.6 Procurement Planning 

4.7 Approval and Kickoff Meeting  

5 Project Execution

5.1 Resource Mobilization 

5.2 Perform Project Execution 

5.3 Team Management 

5.4 Quality Audits and Improvements 

5.5 Project Communications 

5.6 Stakeholder Management 

5.7 Procurement & Contracting 

6 Project Monitoring and Controlling

6.1 Monitoring 

6.2 Control 

6.3 Schedule and Cost Tracking 

6.4 Project Reporting 

6.5 Quality Control 

6.6 Risk Monitoring 

6.7 Gaining Acceptance 

6.8 Managing Contracts 

6.9 Handling Changes 

7 Project Closure

7.1 Closing Contracts 

7.2 Closing Project  

8 Agile Overview

8.1 What is Agile? 

8.2 Need for Agile 

8.3 Agile Characteristics 

8.4 Agile Myths 

8.5 Agile Manifesto 

8.6 Agile Methodologies 

Editorial Reviews

A quick reference guide for project management professionals Easy to learn best practices for effective and successful project delivery Presented in structured way using a step by step process oriented approach Key concepts and terminology aligned to PMI (USA) methodology Ready to use templates enable managing of projects easier

-Cmde Parambath Prabhakaran

Adjunct Faculty in Project Management Centre at S.P. Jain Institute of Management & Research

Project Management is a skill that we all need in both our work and home settings. Project Management Essentials takes you through every step of managing a project, including project initiation, planning, execution, monitoring and controlling, and finally, project closure. Filled with easily digestible information and a bonus glossary of terms, Project Management Essentials is a useful tool for anyone who is looking to be a better project manager, leader, or learner.

-Marisa Soltz, MLIS

Reference Supervisor, Canby Public Library

Everyone needs project management skills because everything in this world is essentially a project-including your career and your life. As a scholar and practitioner in project management, I found that this book provides pragmatic knowledge in managing projects and also prepares you to get a certificate from Project Management Institute (PMI) if you are interested to become a professional in project management. You can gain experience by reading this book and apply more than ten templates to manage your projects. There are also many well-designed practical examples to help you have a deep understanding of what you learn. In short, I recommend this book to people who want to know how to manage projects and even become a professional in project management.

-Weichu Xu MBA, Ph.D

Associate Professor of Business Management

East Stroudsburg University

Thank you for the opportunity to preview this book! Offering just the right amount of detail balanced with practical advice, this book is a 'how to' resource for anyone new to project management and an excellent refresher for the seasoned pro!

-Lindy Williams

Chief Creative Officer

Talent Dimensions

The book overall explanation is good and easy to understand.

-Allen Lim

Assistant Professor of Business Management

East Stroudsburg University

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