Improving Your Project Management Skills
- 1h 47m
- Larry Richman
- AMACOM
- 2006
Each year, thousands of project managers, certified Project Management Professionals (PMPs), and other project-focused professionals enroll in the American Management Association’s project management seminars. Individuals and companies recognize the value of these courses: up-to-date, repeatable project initiatives they can implement throughout their departments and organizations to improve processes, streamline productivity, and drastically reduce costs.
Based on one of the most popular of these renowned seminars, Improving Your Project Management Skills is both a practical reference for beginners and a handy refresher for seasoned professionals. The book covers all the major areas taught in the AMA seminar of the same name: defining project scope, planning and budgeting, scheduling, implementation, project closure, and more.
A powerful learning tool and workplace reference based on a bestselling course, Improving Your Project Management Skills lets project professionals bring the power of the seminar back to their own project environments.
About the Author
Larry Richman is a certified Project Management Professional (PMPÆ) with more than 25 years of experience. He has developed and implemented computer-assisted project management systems and has taught project management for over a decade. He is also the author of Project Management Step-by-Step. Mr. Richman lives in Salt Lake City, Utah.
In this Book
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The Core Concepts
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Leading and Directing Project Teams
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Defining Project Scope and Requirements
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Developing the Project Work Plan: The Work Breakdown Structure
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Defining Activity Dependencies and Creating Network Diagrams
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Estimating Work
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Producing a Project Plan
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Monitoring and Controlling Projects
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Closing a Project
