The fast forward MBA in project management / Eric Verzuh.
This practical, easy-to-use guide gives you instant access to the cutting-edge ideas and hard-won wisdom of one of today's leading experts on project management. In short, lively segments using real-world examples, it delivers the information you need to navigate complex project management issu...
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Table of Contents:
- Project management in a changing world
- Project management: an emerging career track
- The increasing pace of change
- Everyone benefits from understanding project management
- Project management: art informed by science
- End point
- The project environment
- Projects require project management
- The evolution of a discipline
- The definition of success
- The cost-schedule-quality equilibrium
- The ultimate challenge: no damage
- Project management functions
- Project life cycle
- Organizing for projects
- Project managers are leaders
- End point
- Defining the project
- Project stakeholders
- Stakeholders are the heart of a successful project
- Stakeholder roles: project manager
- Stakeholder roles: project team
- Stakeholder roles: management
- Stakeholder roles: sponsor
- Stakeholder roles: the customer
- Lead the stakeholders
- End point
- Making the rules
- Project rules are the foundation
- Publish a project charter
- Write a statement of work
- Statement of work: minimum content
- Responsibility matrix
- Creating a communication plan
- End point
- The planning process
- Risk management
- All project management is risk management
- The risk management framework
- Identify the risks
- Developing a response strategy
- Control
- End point
- Work breakdown structure
- Defining the work breakdown structure
- Building a work breakdown structure
- Criteria for a successful work breakdown structure
- Work package size
- Planning for quality
- Breaking down large programs.