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About the Book

Whether organizing an important event or developing a new product range with a large team, running a project can be a daunting process. Project Management is fraught with perils; in fact, it's more common than not for projects to fail.

Effective Project Management reveals what the best project managers know, say and do. Condensing 20 years of hand-on project management experience, it will show you what to do in simple, smart and practical steps. With essential advice that has been tried and tested in real businesses, it covers all the aspects of how to manage a successful project, including:

  • how to plan quality, timescales and budgets
  • how to identify and manage risks
  • how to describe the vision
  • how to engage a management team
  • how to deliver the project

With practical, proven and effective measures to mitigate the risk of project failure, Effective Project Management will boost confidence and encourage you to develop your instinct to pursue the best solutions for any project.

About the Author
Paul Roberts has been managing projects for over 20 years and is a founding director of Fifthday Longview Limited, a provider of project management expertise, education and resource. He has worked with some of the world's largest, most influential companies, and many of the smallest, both in public and private, helping them all to embed the principles, techniques and culture of effective project management.

Table of Contents
  • Introduction
  • What sort of a person is the project manager?
  • What is a project?
  • A project's characteristics
  • A successful project's characteristics
  • How can projects deliver benefits?
  • What is a project?
  • What is a project is not?
  • What is project management?
  • Business success ? delivering project
  • Conclusions
  • Who's responsible for what?
  • The principles of project organizational design
  • A project's hierarchy of management
  • Applying the principles in practice
  • Some example project organization structures
  • Conclusion
  • How do I know what 'success' looks like?
  • The principles of defining project success
  • Applying principles in practice
  • An example of project success criteria
  • Conclusion
  • How do I plan? quality?
  • Understanding a product-based approach to planning
  • Using a product-based approach to planning
  • Conclusion
  • How do I plan?timescales and budgets?
  • Building the plan
  • Refining the plan
  • Conclusion
  • How do I identify and manage the risks?
  • The principles of risk management
  • Applying the principles in practice
  • A word about contingency
  • Conclusion
  • How do I initiate the project?
  • The project life cycle
  • Planning and conducting project initiation
  • Conclusion
  • How can I keep the project under control?
  • Management by exception
  • The control cycle: plan
  • The control cycle: delegate
  • The control cycle: monitor, report and control
  • Conclusion
  • What do I do when it's time to deliver
  • Project closure
  • The post-project period
  • Conclusion
  • What do I do next?
  • Appendix A: Role descriptions
  • Glossary
  • Acronyms
  • Index

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    Product Details
    • ISBN-13: 9780749461577
    • Publisher: Kogan Page
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Height: 213 mm
    • No of Pages: 291
    • Spine Width: 19 mm
    • Width: 138 mm
    • ISBN-10: 0749461578
    • Publisher Date: 28 Mar 2011
    • Depth: 19
    • Language: English
    • Series Title: English
    • Weight: 381 gr

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