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Project Manager Street Smarts: A Real World Guide to PMP Skills
Author(s): Linda Kretz Zaval (Author), Terri A. Wagner (Author)
- Publisher: Sybex Inc
- Publication Date: January 1, 2009
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 381 pages
- ISBN-10: 0470479590
- ISBN-13: 9780470479599
Book Description
Hands-on practice for the most common-and most difficult-project management tasks
Breaking into the field of project management is difficult, and the Project Management Institute requires that Project Management Professionals (PMPs) have on-the-job experience before earning their certification. This handy, task-based resource addresses the most common and the most challenging tasks Project Managers face and demonstrates how to perform these tasks.
The Street Smarts series is designed to help current or aspiring professionals put their certification to work for them. Full of practical, real world scenarios, each book features actual tasks from the field and then offers step-by-step exercises that teach the skills necessary to complete those tasks.
- Aimed at anyone looking to gain hands-on experience in the field of project management by offering a unique look at the daily routine of a project manager
- Offers a variety of real-world scenarios, covering everything from the most common tasks to the most demanding roadblocks
- Walks you through step-by-step instructions of working with a project: initiating, planning, executing, monitoring and controlling, and closing
- Demonstrates defining a scope, developing a project charter, creating the work breakdown structure, managing resource allocation, and more
Designed to provide you with an accurate look into the field of project management, this book offers you a unique and insightful perspective on the demands of a project manager on a day-to-day basis.
Editorial Reviews
From the Back Cover
Hit the ground running with the street-smart training you’ll find in this practical guide to project management. Using a “year in the life” approach, it gives you an inside look at the common responsibilities of project managers, with key information organized around the actual day-to-day tasks, scenarios, and challenges you’ll face in the field. This valuable training tool is loaded with hands-on, step-by-step exercises covering all phases of project management, including:
- Initiating and planning the project
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Executing the project
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Monitoring and controlling the project
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Closing the project
An invaluable study tool
This no-nonsense book puts into practice all of the concepts found in A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK Guide), Fourth Edition. Whether you are a Project Management Professional (PMP) seeking to update your skills, or are a novice project management practitioner, this book walks you through every step of managing a project, including:
- Defining and stating the scope
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Developing a project charter
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Building a master project management plan
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Creating and managing the work breakdown structure
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Obtaining approval and resources
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Measuring personnel and project performance
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Closing out contracts as well as the project
The Street Smarts series is designed to help current or aspiring IT professionals put their certification to work for them. Full of practical, real world scenarios, each book features actual tasks from the field and then offers step-by-step exercises that teach the skills necessary to complete those tasks. And because the exercises are based upon exam objectives from leading technology certifications, each Street Smarts book can be used as a lab manual for certification prep.
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