Many projects fail to deliver on time or on budget, or even to deliver a workable product that satisfies the customer. While good project management goes a long way towards ensuring success, managers often fail to follow the plans they implement. This unique guide helps you understand and successfully handle project management, once and for all. Covering practical ways to solve problems you’ll typically face when managing actual projects, this pragmatic book takes you through a full project management lifecycle. You’ll find ample tips, tricks, and best practices–all richly illustrated with real case studies.
Find out how to plan for risk, get wayward projects back on track, manage a whole portfolio of projects, and much more. Each topic in the book is mapped to the exam topics of the PMP® Certification Exam, so PMP certification candidates can also use this book for test prep. The book’s companion web site offers downloadable forms, templates, and checklists.
Explains project management for the real world using a pragmatic approach that includes field-tested techniques, case studies to illustrate concepts, helpful tips and tricks, and downloadable content
Guides you to project management success by providing friendly advice, as if you had a friend or project management consultant at your side, discussing issues
Explores how to run successful meetings, how to get wayward projects back on track, planning for risk, and how to manage multiple projects
Manage your next project with a personal consultant: your own copy of Your Project Management Coach: Best Practices for Managing Projects in the Real World.
(PMP is a registered marks of the Project Management Institute, Inc.)
Editorial Reviews
From the Inside Flap
If you manage projects, meet your coach!
Many projects fail to deliver “on time and within budget.” These failures are often the result of poor project management skills. Your Project Management Coach provides a hands-on, pragmatic approach to solving real-world project management problems. Using richly illustrated case examples, the authors show how to apply proven project management techniques to achieve optimum results. The companion website provides forms and templates you can use to put the ideas in the book into action. Whether you’re an experienced project manager looking for specififi c solutions or are new to project management, you’ll fifi nd a gold mine of practical, fifi eld-tested advice.
WHAT YOUWILL LEARN
Elements that define a project, including the problem, goal, objectives, and success criteria
How to plan a project, including how to identify and estimate the work and cost
Best practices for building a realistic schedule, using work estimates, resource availability, and more
How to manage quality, risk, and change
Techniques for evaluating progress and performance
Methods for balancing scope, time, and cost, as well as resources, quality, and risk
Why you want to document lessons learned and archive project information
When your organization needs a project management offiffi ce or project portfolio management
You can also use this book to assist in your preparation for the PMP Certifification Exam.
From the Back Cover
If you manage projects, meet your coach!
Many projects fail to deliver “on time and within budget.” These failures are often the result of poor project management skills. Your Project Management Coach provides a hands-on, pragmatic approach to solving real-world project management problems. Using richly illustrated case examples, the authors show how to apply proven project management techniques to achieve optimum results. The companion website provides forms and templates you can use to put the ideas in the book into action. Whether you’re an experienced project manager looking for specififi c solutions or are new to project management, you’ll fifi nd a gold mine of practical, fifi eld-tested advice.
WHAT YOUWILL LEARN
Elements that define a project, including the problem, goal, objectives, and success criteria
How to plan a project, including how to identify and estimate the work and cost
Best practices for building a realistic schedule, using work estimates, resource availability, and more
How to manage quality, risk, and change
Techniques for evaluating progress and performance
Methods for balancing scope, time, and cost, as well as resources, quality, and risk
Why you want to document lessons learned and archive project information
When your organization needs a project management offiffi ce or project portfolio management
You can also use this book to assist in your preparation for the PMP Certifification Exam.
About the Author
Bonnie Biafore is a PMI-certified project manager, as well as a trainer and award-winning author. She has written numerous books on project management, small business accounting, and other topics. Teresa Stover is a technical communications and project management consultant for software, manufacturing, and education. Both are prolific writers and conduct training on project management.
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