Project Management Essentials You Always Wanted To Know

Includes Chapter Summaries and Solutions to Practice ExercisesSimplified Project Management concepts Practical approaches that can be applied to projects Best Practices used in contemporary projects Project Management Templates

As employees first move towards management, they typically take on management of critical projects. Project Management Essentials You Always Wanted To Know: 4th Edition provides the core information about how to manage the complexity of modern projects. This comprehensive yet compact project management book includes topics such as:

Overview of project managementProject Initiation - Constraints, Stakeholders, PMO, Life CyclesProject Planning - WBS, PERT/CPM, Budgeting, Risk Project Execution - Audits, HR, Communications Project Monitoring & Controlling - Tracking, Quality Control, Change ControlProject Closure

After the reader has mastered the concepts in this book, he or she will be able to complete projects faster, optimize the workload, plan and execute projects successfully, and handle the different responsibilities of the workflow easily.

About the Series

The Self-Learning Management Series is designed to help students, new managers, career switchers and entrepreneurs learn essential management lessons. This series is designed to address every aspect of business from HR to Finance to Marketing to Operations, across any and every industry. Each book includes basic fundamentals, important concepts, standard and well-known principles, and practical ways of application of the subject matter. The distinctiveness of the series lies in that all the relevant information is bundled in a compact form that is very easy to interpret.