Practical Project Management Tips, Tactics, and Tools [Hardcover]

The author has 39 years of experience implementing project management techniques.

• Includes unique material based on the author's experiences that cannot be found elsewhere.
• Readers can refer to self-contained chapters for quick reference and problem-solving or read the entire book.

Acknowledgments.

Preface.

1. Setting Up the Project Management Operation.

1.1 About Projects and Project Management.

1.2 Organizing for Project Management.

1.3 Does Your Company Need a CPO?

1.4 Implementing a Computer-based Project Management Capability.

2. Getting Started.

2.1 Project Initiation Techniques.

2.2 Do You Weebis? Clarifying WBS, OBS, and RBS.

2.3 Project Life Cycles.

3. Scheduling.

3.1 Critical Path Scheduling.

3.2 Critical Path, Critical Chain, and Uncertainty: Exploring Concepts of Shared Contingency.

3.3 Estimating Task Durations.

3.4 How Important Are Schedules and Time Compression?

3.5 Practical Scheduling.

4. Resource and Workforce Management.

4.1 An Overview of the Different Elements of Resource Management.

4.2 Role-based Needs for Managing Resources in a Project-driven Organization.

4.3 Resource Leveling and Games of Chance.

4.4 Practical Resource Scheduling.

5. Budgeting and Cost Control.

5.1 Concepts and Issues of Project Budgeting and Cost Control.

5.2 Software Support for Cost Management.