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The bestselling 'bible' of project management
In today's time-crunched, cost-conscious global business environment, tight project deadlines and stringent expectations are the norm. So how can you juggle all the skills and responsibilities it takes to shine as a project management maven? Updated in a brand-new edition, Project Management For Dummies offers everything you need to successfully manage projects from start to finish--without ever dropping the ball.
Written by a well-known project management expert, this hands-on guide takes the perplexity out of being a successful PM, laying out all the steps to take your organizational, planning, and execution skills to new heights. Whether it's managing distressed projects, embracing the use of social media to drive efficiency and improve socialization, or resolving conflicts that occur during a project, the soup-to-nuts guidance inside will help you wear your project management hat more prominently--and proudly.
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Auteur
Stanley E. Portny, PMP®, is an internationally recognized expert in project management and project leadership. During the past 30 years, he has provided training and consultation to more than 150 public and private organizations. He is a Project Management Institutecertified Project Management Professional (PMP®).
Résumé
The bestselling 'bible' of project management In today's time-crunched, cost-conscious global business environment, tight project deadlines and stringent expectations are the norm. So how can you juggle all the skills and responsibilities it takes to shine as a project management maven? Updated in a brand-new edition, Project Management For Dummies offers everything you need to successfully manage projects from start to finishwithout ever dropping the ball. Written by a well-known project management expert, this hands-on guide takes the perplexity out of being a successful PM, laying out all the steps to take your organizational, planning, and execution skills to new heights. Whether it's managing distressed projects, embracing the use of social media to drive efficiency and improve socialization, or resolving conflicts that occur during a project, the soup-to-nuts guidance inside will help you wear your project management hat more prominentlyand proudly.
Contenu
Introduction 1
About This Book 2
Foolish Assumptions 2
Icons Used in This Book 3
Beyond the Book 4
Where to Go from Here 4
Part 1: Getting Started with Project Management 7
Chapter 1: Project Management: The Key to Achieving Results 9
Determining What Makes a Project a Project 10
Understanding the three main components that define a project 10
Recognizing the diversity of projects 11
Describing the four phases of a project life cycle 13
Defining Project Management 14
Starting with the initiating processes 16
Outlining the planning processes 17
Examining the executing processes 18
Surveying the monitoring and controlling processes 19
Ending with the closing processes 20
Knowing the Project Manager's Role 20
Looking at the project manager's tasks 20
Staving off excuses for not following a structured project-management approach 21
Avoiding shortcuts 22
Staying aware of other potential challenges 23
Do You Have What It Takes to Be an Effective Project Manager? 24
Questions 24
Answer key 25
Relating This Chapter to the PMP Exam and PMBOK 6 26
Chapter 2: Beginning the Journey: The Genesis of a Project 27
Gathering Ideas for Projects 28
Looking at information sources for potential projects 29
Proposing a project in a business case 29
Developing the Project Charter 31
Performing a cost-benefit analysis 32
Conducting a feasibility study 34
Generating documents during the development of the project charter 35
Deciding Which Projects to Move to the Second Phase of Their Life Cycle 36
Chapter 3: Knowing Your Project's Stakeholders: Involving the Right People 37
Understanding Your Project's Stakeholders 38
Developing a Stakeholder Register 38
Starting your stakeholder register 39
Ensuring your stakeholder register is complete and up-to-date 44
Using a stakeholder register template 45
Determining Whether Stakeholders Are Drivers, Supporters, or Observers 47
Deciding when to involve your stakeholders 48
Using different methods to involve your stakeholders 51
Making the most of your stakeholders' involvement 52
Displaying Your Stakeholder Register 53
Confirming Your Stakeholders' Authority 54
Assessing Your Stakeholders' Power and Interest 56
Relating This Chapter to the PMP Exam and PMBOK 6 57
Chapter 4: Clarifying What You're Trying to Accomplish And Why 59
Defining Your Project with a Scope Statement 60
Looking at the Big Picture: Explaining the Need for Your Project 64
Figuring out why you're doing the project 64
Drawing the line: Where your project starts and stops 74
Stating your project's objectives 75
Marking Boundaries: Project Constraints 80
Working within limitations 80
Dealing with needs 83
Facing the Unknowns When Planning: Documenting Your Assumptions 83
Presenting Your Scope Statement in a Clear and Concise Document 84
Relating This Chapter to the PMP Exam and PMBOK 6 85
Chapter 5: Developing Your Game Plan: Getting from Here to There 87
Divide and Conquer: Breaking Your Project into Manageable Chunks 88
Thinking in detail 88
Identifying necessary project work with a work breakdown structure 90
Dealing with special situations 98
Creating and Displaying Your Work Breakdown Structure 101
Considering different schemes to create your WBS hierarchy 102
Using one of two approaches to develop your WBS 103
Categorizing your project's work 104
Labeling your WBS entries 106 Displaying your WBS in diffe...