Project management essentials for dummies / / by Nick Graham and Stan Portny

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910162718503321
• Autore: Graham Nick
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Chichester, England : , : John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., , 2015; ©2015
• ISBN: 1-119-08871-2; 1-119-08872-0
• Edizione: [2nd ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (323 p.)
• Collana: For Dummies
• Disciplina: 658.404
• Soggetti: Project management; Management
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "A Wiley brand."; Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; About This Book; Conventions Used in This Book; What You're Not to Read; Foolish Assumptions; Icons Used in This Book; Beyond The Book; Where to Go from Here; Part I Understanding Projects and What You Want to Achieve; Chapter 1 Success in Project Management; Taking on a Project; Avoiding the Pitfalls; Deciding whether It's a Project; Grasping the four control areas; Recognising project diversity; Understanding the four stages; The Project Manager's Role; Looking at the Project Manager's tasks; Avoiding shortcuts; Chapter 2 Thinking Through the Life of Your ProjectBeing Methodical; Breaking the Project into Stages; Seeing the advantages of stages; Deciding on the number of delivery stages; Understanding the Main Stages; Starting the project; Organising and preparing; Carrying out the work - delivery stages; Closing the project; Chapter 3 Defining the Scope and Producing a Business Case; Defining the Scope; Managing expectations; Challenging the scope; Grasping the extent of scope; Being clear; Prioritising; Producing a Business Case; Getting to grips with the basics; Updating the Business Case; Justifying the projectUnderstanding the justification; Understanding ; benefits; Writing the Business Case; Going Back to the Scope; Getting to Grips with Techniques; Calculating return on investment; Understanding cost-benefit analysis; Chapter 4 Knowing the Stakeholders; Managing Stakeholders; Identifying stakeholders; Analysing the stakeholders; Understanding the positions; Deciding action; Working with stakeholders; Planning the work; Handling Opposition; Solving the problems; Focusing on the common areas; Realising that you're a threat; Overriding the opposition; Part II Building the Plans; Chapter 5 Planning with Deliverables FirstSeeing the Logic; Thinking 'product' first; Understanding the problems of an activity focus; Knowing What a Product Is - and Isn't; Finding Good Product Names; Using a Business Project Example; Identifying the products; Developing a sequence; Defining the products; Using a Structured Product List; Unleashing WFD Power; Using the WFD for risk; Using the WFD for control; Using the WFD to show stages; Using the WFD for progress reporting; Getting a picture of the project; Chapter 6 Planning the Activities; Moving to Activities; Having multiple tasks; Listing the activities or tasksDrawing Up an Activity Network; Building a Network; Using the Work Flow Diagram; Putting in the time durations; Calculating the length of the project; Understanding Float; Identifying the Critical Path; Watching the critical path; Finding a split critical path; Being Precise with Dependencies; Knowing the dependency types; Staying in touch with reality; Thinking more about sequences; Working with the Network; Working to meet end dates; Backing into the schedule; Going for Gantt; Estimating Activity Durations; Getting the best information; Giving a health warning; Chapter 7 Looking at Resources