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The Latest Project Management Data at Your Fingertips
Fully updated throughout, this hands-on guide gives you quick access to current information on project management concepts and practices. Project Manager\'s Portable Handbook. third edition, offers concise, practical details on the fundamental knowledge, skills, and attitudes required to manage projects. Written by world-renowned project management experts, this compact reference summarizes best practices for defining, designing, developing, and producing project results. Handy tables, charts, models, and callout boxes illustrate pertinent information in this essential on-the-job tool.
Easy-to-Find Project Management Topics:
- The discipline of project management
- Project organizational chart
- Alternative project applications
- The strategic context of projects
- Project leadership
- Project initiation and execution Project planning and control
- The project culture
- Improving project management
PRAISE FOR PREVIOUS EDITIONS:
\"It is perhaps the one book that best summarizes a complete knowledge set to be applied in successfully managing projects. It is the one book that project managers should not \'go to work\' without.\" -- Ken Rose, Book Review Editor, Project Management Journal
\"Unique and invaluable...direct, summarized style...wealth of information...annotated bibliography...one book a project manager should not be without.\" -- PM Network'
Synopsis
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The Latest Project Management Data at Your Fingertips
Fully updated throughout, this hands-on guide gives you quick access to current information on project management concepts and practices. Project Manager's Portable Handbook. third edition, offers concise, practical details on the fundamental knowledge, skills, and attitudes required to manage projects. Written by world-renowned project management experts, this compact reference summarizes best practices for defining, designing, developing, and producing project results. Handy tables, charts, models, and callout boxes illustrate pertinent information in this essential on-the-job tool.
Easy-to-Find Project Management Topics:
- The discipline of project management
- Project organizational chart
- Alternative project applications
- The strategic context of projects
- Project leadership
- Project initiation and executionProject planning and control
- The project culture
- Improving project management
PRAISE FOR PREVIOUS EDITIONS:
It is perhaps the one book that best summarizes a complete knowledge set to be applied in successfully managing projects. It is the one book that project managers should not 'go to work' without. -- Ken Rose, Book Review Editor, Project Management Journal
Unique and invaluable...direct, summarized style...wealth of information...annotated bibliography...one book a project manager should not be without. -- PM Network
About the Author
David I. Cleland, Ph.D., is a Fellow of the Project Management Institute (PMI®) and three-time recipient of PMIs “Distinguished Contribution Award.” He has been described as the “Father of Project Management” and is honored annually with the presentation of the “David I. Cleland Project Management Literature Award” sponsored by PMI. Dr. Cleland continues to provide consulting assistance to international organizations. He has authored or edited 40 books in the project management and engineering management fields.
Lewis R. Ireland, Ph.D., is an executive project management consultant based in Tennessee, serving both U.S. and international clients. He is Past President and Chair of the Project Management Institute and a 25-year veteran of PMI®. Dr. Ireland has been recognized by PMI for his contributions by the “Distinguished Contribution Award” and the “Person of the Year Award,” and by being elected a Fellow of the Project Management Institute. He currently serves as Past President of the American Society for the Advancement of Project Management (asapm), a professional society dedicated to better project management practices.
Table of Contents
P=Project / M=Management / PM=Project Management;
Section 1. The Discipline of PM; (Ps as building blocks to success; P Success and Failure; PM: A Distinct and Changing Discipline; PM Competency; Performance competence for PMs; A PM Philosophy; Benefits of PM; Ethics in PM; Ethics of P Professionals; P Life Cycle; PM Bodies of Knowledge (PMBOK) and PM Certification; PM Process; Managerial and technical complexity of Ps);
Section 2. Project Organizational Design Organizing for PM; P Organization Charting; Authority Responsibility Accountability; PM Training; International Ps; Working in Ps; P Office; Setting up a PM office; PM standards, P Team Culture);
Section 3. Alternative Project Applications (Alternative P Teams; Reengineering Through P Teams; Concurrent Engineering; The M of Small Ps; Ming Multiple Ps; Self Managed Production Teams; Benchmarking Teams; Ming Change by PM; New product development using PM);
Section 4. The Strategic Context of Ps (Selling PM to Senior Managers; P Partnering; P Strategic Issue M; P Stakeholder M; The Strategic M of Teams; Senior M and Ps; Board of Directors and Major Ps; Program M; Portfolio M for Ps; P portfolio M; International vis-à-vis national Ps);
Section 5. Project Leadership (Overview of P Leadership; Leadership in Ps; Coaching P Team Members; Ming Conflict in Ps; Team Leadership; PMers decision process; The role of P resource Mers; Trust in P teams; P Team Building; Behavioral aspects of P team members);
Section 6. P Initiation and Execution (P Statement of Work; P Contract Negotiations and Administration);
Section 7. P Planning and Control (Establishing a PM System (PMS); Ming Costs in Ps);
Section 8. The Project Culture;
Section 9. Project Communications (The PM Information System; P Communications);
Section 10. Improving PM (PM Maturity; P Recovery for the Challenged P)