Practical Project Management with CD-ROM
Autor R.G. Ghattas, Sandra L. McKeeen Limba Engleză Mixed media product – 20 sep 2000
Unique in format, approach, and content, this text follows a fictional training seminar given to six management professionals who are “trainees” in project management. In the seminar, the trainees work through two major projects and several other smaller projects—each highlighting and refining different issues that will make the managers better at controlling a complex process and in avoiding and eliminating unnecessary stress for the project, themselves, and their employees. Exceptionally practical and applied, the text guides students through a proven strategy for success and provides them with the tools they need to handle any project's unique combination of people, processes, and tasks.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 0130953091
Pagini: 294
Dimensiuni: 210 x 255 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.75 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Pearson Education
Colecția Prentice Hall
Locul publicării:Upper Saddle River, United States
Cuprins
1. Introduction to Project Management.
2. Change.
3. Leadership and Motivation.
4. Communication.
5. Teams.
6. Diversity.
7. Setting Goals and Securing Commitment
8. Scheduling.
9. Network Analysis and Duration Estimating.
10. Resource Management.
11. Project Control.
12. Project Control Techniques.
Appendices.
Caracteristici
- Accessible—Features an easy-to-read conversational style and down-to-earth approach, and doesn't assume a lot of prior statistical analysis knowledge or industry experience.
- Allows students to concentrate on the ideas and strategies being presented—not on dry technical material. Ex.___
- Allows students to concentrate on the ideas and strategies being presented—not on dry technical material. Ex.___
- A training-seminar format—The text follows a training seminar given to six management professionals. The seminar is led by a two-person team (the facilitator and the content area specialist), chronicles the experiences of a group of trainees who are studying project management. Through a unique dialogue feature, the trainees offer their experiences, questions, concerns and even arguments regarding the material.
- This “class-within-a-class” format engages the reader and helps present a variety of concerns and points of view from several different industries and backgrounds while interjecting a critical thinking element plus real-world examples into the text's conceptual content. Ex.___
- This “class-within-a-class” format engages the reader and helps present a variety of concerns and points of view from several different industries and backgrounds while interjecting a critical thinking element plus real-world examples into the text's conceptual content. Ex.___
- “Interview with an Expert”—At the end of each chapter, these interviews feature practicing project managers from a variety of industries.
- Shows students how text concepts have been applied in the real world. Ex.___
- Shows students how text concepts have been applied in the real world. Ex.___
- “Skill extras”—Interspersed throughout. Addresses specific skills, such as conflict resolution, problem-solving in groups.
- Gives students an understanding of the variety of skills they will need to be successful project managers. Ex.___
- Gives students an understanding of the variety of skills they will need to be successful project managers. Ex.___
- “Tool Box Tips”—Interspersed throughout and noted with a special toolbox icon.
- Provides students with operational suggestions for applying recommendations from text material. Ex.___
- Provides students with operational suggestions for applying recommendations from text material. Ex.___
- Free Microsoft Project software packaged with each book—120-day evaluation software provided, along with exercises at the end of every chapter.
- Allow students to harness the power of this best-selling project management tool. Ex.___
- Allow students to harness the power of this best-selling project management tool. Ex.___
- Questions and problem applications—At the end of each chapter. Some applications are problems to be solved with project management planning or monitoring tools (e.g., Microsoft Project), while some are continuations of on-going example problems and “people” problems described throughout the book. All applications are modeled after real challenges that project managers face in industry.
- Project Challenge: Applying What You Know—These projects and cases are drawn directly from the authors' experiences or represent composites of client situations the authors have handled. They build upon each other and follow the typical flow of a project: Goal; Plan; Implementation; Monitoring Problem Solutions.
- Gives students valuable practice problem solving and working through projects like those they will face on the job. Ex.___
- Gives students valuable practice problem solving and working through projects like those they will face on the job. Ex.___
- The role of change—In the project process and on methods of fostering a constructive change environment.
- Helps students develop leadership and motivational skills necessary for an ever-changing environment. Ex.___
- Helps students develop leadership and motivational skills necessary for an ever-changing environment. Ex.___
- Communication skills and approaches—For situations involving working with teams, cultural diversity, etc.
- Teaches students how to effectively convey ideas with any kind of employee mix. Ex.___
- Teaches students how to effectively convey ideas with any kind of employee mix. Ex.___
- Advanced concepts—e.g., Work Breakdown Structure (to ensure that all elements and activities of a project are recognized in the planning stages-not in the crisis stage); Networking Techniques (to create the visual images of a project's schedule that can be understood and used by the multiple disciplines involved in a project); how to determine the Critical Path (to focus efforts on the most important activities).
- Introduces students to key strategies that will greatly aid in the timely completion of a project with less stress on the project manager. Ex.___
- Introduces students to key strategies that will greatly aid in the timely completion of a project with less stress on the project manager. Ex.___
- Key Terms—Definitions are highlighted in the chapter margins.
- Provide an easy reference for student review. Ex.___
- Provide an easy reference for student review. Ex.___
Textul de pe ultima copertă
Using an easy-to-read conversational style and down-to-earth approach, this book follows a fictional training seminar given to six management professionals who are "trainees" in project management. In the seminar, the trainees work through two major projects and several others--each project highlighting and refining different issues that will make the managers better at controlling a complex process and in avoiding and eliminating unnecessary stress for the project, themselves, and their employees. Exceptionally practical and applied, the book guides readers through a proven strategy for success and provides them with the tools they need to handle "any" project's unique combination of people, process, and tasks. Features dialogues in which the "trainees" discuss concepts presented and their own personal experiences in project management; interviews with expert project managers; special Skill and Tool boxes; and applications and problems for practice, some using project management software. Introduction to Project Management. Change. Leadership and Motivation. Communications. Teams. Diversity. Organization. Organization. Network Analysis and Duration Estimating. Managing Resources. Project Control concepts. Project Control Techniques. Final Project Challenge: Applying What You Know. For first-time project leaders in industry.