Project Management Essentials You Always Wanted to Know

by Vibrant Publishers, Kalpesh Ashar

Overview

• Includes Chapter Summaries and Solutions to Practice Exercises
• Simplified Project Management concepts
• Practical approaches that can be applied to projects
• Best Practices used in contemporary projects
• Project Management Templates

As employees first move towards management, they typically take on management of critical projects. Project Management Essentials You Always Wanted To Know: 4th Edition provides the core information about how to manage the complexity of modern projects. This comprehensive yet compact project management book includes topics such as:

• Overview of project management
• Project Initiation - Constraints, Stakeholders, PMO, Life Cycles
• Project Planning - WBS, PERT/CPM, Budgeting, Risk
• Project Execution - Audits, HR, Communications
• Project Monitoring & Controlling - Tracking, Quality Control, Change Control
• Project Closure

After the reader has mastered the concepts in this book, he or she will be able to complete projects faster, optimize the workload, plan and execute projects successfully, and handle the different responsibilities of the workflow easily.

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, across any and every industry. Each book includes basic fundamentals, important concepts, standard and well-known principles, and 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:	9781949395396
Publisher:	Vibrant Publishers
Publication date:	09/07/2019
Series:	Self-Learning Management , #12
Edition description:	4th ed.
Pages:	178
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.38(d)

About the Author

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.

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 21 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.

Table of Contents

Helpful Templates

1. Project Management Overview

Project Definition

Reasons for Starting a Project

Project Management

Program and Portfolio

Project Management Office (PMO)

Management by Objectives (MBO)

Constraints

Stakeholders

Organisational Structures

Lifecycles

Project Management Phases

Solved Examples1

Practice Exercise1

Chapter Summary1

2. Project Initiation

Project Selection

Project Charter

Identification of Stakeholders

Solved Examples

Practice Exercise

Chapter Summary

3. Project Planning

Scope Planning

Time Planning

Cost Planning

Quality Planning

Human Resource Planning

Communications Planning

Risk Planning

Procurement Planning

Approval and Kickoff Meeting

Solved Examples

Practice Exercise

Chapter Summary

4. Project Execution

Resource Mobilisation

Perform Project Execution

Team Management

Quality Audits and Improvements

Project Communications

Stakeholder Management

Procurement and Contracting

Solved Examples

Practice Exercise

Chapter Summary

5. Project Monitoring and Controlling

Monitoring

Control

Schedule and Cost Tracking

Project Reporting

Quality Control

Risk Monitoring

Gaining Acceptance

Managing Contracts

Handling Changes

Solved Examples

Practice Exercise

Chapter Summary

6. Project Closure

Closing Contracts

Closing Project

Solved Examples

Practice Exercise

Chapter Summary

Glossary