1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996392614903316

Titolo

A vvhip for a drunkard, and a curbe for prophanesse [[electronic resource]] : Being an abstract of all the several statutes in force against Sabbath-breaking, swearing, drunkenesse, and unlawfull gaming; wherein is set forth the severall offences, penalties, and corporall punishments due to the severall offenders, useufll for all persons in these times of reformation

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Printed by Robert White, and are to be sold at his house on Adling Hill, 1646

Descrizione fisica

2 p

Soggetti

Sunday

Swearing - England

Drunkenness (Criminal law) - England

Gambling - Law and legislation - England

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Postscript dated: April. 24. 1646 and signed: Tho. Adams Mayor.

Annotation on Thomason copy: "May 5th".

Reproduction of the original in the British Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0018



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910162718503321

Autore

Graham Nick

Titolo

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

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