Improving Your Project Management Skills

Every project is unique, a specific set of tasks aligned to meet stated requirements. But a skilled project manager uses universal processes, terms, and metrics to bring consistency and results to one project after another.

Whether you are a veteran project professional or a rookie, you too can adopt these core project management principles and improve execution of tasks and entire projects in any environment.

Improving Your Project Management Skills gives you step-by-step guidelines for:

• Better project team leadership

• Defining project scope and requirements

• Developing a work breakdown structure

• Diagramming the activity sequence and network

• Estimating work, including risk analysis and time/cost/resource trade-offs

• Producing project plans, including schedules, budgets, control processes, and more

• Monitoring and controlling projects at every stage

• Project closure and documentation

Improving Your Project Management Skills is based on the best-selling American Management Association seminar of the same name, attended by thousands of project professionals every year. The book covers the same extensive array of critical topics and provides the same powerful tools as the course, with the added advantage that you can absorb the material at your own pace and access it right in your project environment, making implementation a snap.

Your organization demands and deserves superior project execution. These powerful project tools, based on a world-class learning program and proven, universal project management tenets, will help you streamline processes, reduce costs, and ramp up productivity in your project environment.

Larry Richman is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP®) with more than 25 years of experience. He has developed and implemented computer-assisted project management systems and has taught project management for over a decade. He is also the author of Project Management Step-by-Step.

Larry Richman is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP®) with more than 20 years of experience. He has developed and implemented computer-assisted project management systems and has taught project management for over a decade.