Naked Project Management: The Bare Facts
- 1h 34m
- Dennis Lock
- Ashgate Publishing
- 2013
Books about project management are plentiful. The best of those books are too comprehensive for the person faced for the first time with managing a small and relatively straightforward project, or for the student studying for a degree or business qualification in which project management is only one of several modules. But, at the other extreme too many of the simpler books treat project management lightly, gloss over or ignore some essential processes, and even get the facts wrong and give incorrect examples. Naked Project Management is an introductory guide to the world of project management from one of the world's most accomplished project management authors. Lock has stripped project management down to its bare facts - simplifying everything but trivializing nothing. So there is sound practical advice here on how to organize and manage a small or medium sized project. The book is written in the direct jargon-free style that has become Dennis Lock's hallmark. Everything is carefully explained and supported with clear diagrams. It covers all the essential aspect of project management using astonishingly few words. But this book also provides further instruction by means of an entertaining case study project that flows logically through the chapters from beginning to end. Degree and other students for whom project management is an elective or small part of their course will love this compact time-saving and reasonably priced study resource.
In this Book
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Naked Project Management—The Bare Facts
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Preface
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Projects
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Getting Ready for the Project
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Organization
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Planning and Scheduling
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Contracts and Commerce
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Taking Control
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Task Forces for Special Projects
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Round Up
