Painless Project Management: A Step-by-Step Guide for Planning, Executing, and Managing Projects
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| Rating | : | 4.94 (648 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0470117214 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 264 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-01-01 |
| Language | : | English |
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Project managers, as well as those who want to learn more about project management, will find this guide to be an indispensable resource for all their projects.. A detailed guide to successful, efficient project management, written by two pros with a combined 55 years "in the trenches!"Project management is a vital and growing component of many organizations and can literally make or break a company. In this step-by-step guide, two project management consultants present a comprehensive guide to effective project management, complete with real stories and case studies from actual project managers. This straightforward guide cuts through the technical jargon to present an easy-to-follow, easy-to-learn approach to executing any project from beginning to end
McGhee is also an adjunct instructor at Baruch College in New York, where she teaches basic and advanced project management. . Ms. PAMELA McGHEE, PMP, President and owner of McGhee Enterprises, a project management and IT consulting firm, has consulted with thousands of project managers at Fortune 500 companies. She is a long-standing faculty member at the American Management Association, where she conducts project management and IT seminars. <
They boil down the basics of project management so you can design a simple, effective plan for any project and follow it through to a successful completion. The authors reveal how the complexity of project management is not in the process itself, but in the people and organizational relationships that must also be managed. Once you do that, they show you how to handle the people and issues that make project management such a challenge, including: Communicating project plans to colleagues and top managementDelegating, organizing, and coordinating dutiesTracking and reporting on project statusManaging resources, budgets, and timelinesChanging tacks and goals on the flyDealing with project disruptionsIncludes downloadable forms atWWW.PAINLESSPROJECTMANAGEMENT.INFO. Painless Project Management makes it simple by cutting through the jargon, formulas, and
Outstanding Product Management Book G. Schwartz As a management consultant, McGhee and McAliney's presentation of project management makes sense - very simple, straight forward and, most important, jargon free. This can be the best friend for front line and mid level managers who have been tasked by their organizations to manage a project - or multiple projects - and need a place to start. Painless Project Management is the playbook they can use to be successful.. great textbook Mariam Kvitsiani It's very well written; most of the textbooks are boring as hell and just reading one page is tiring - but I kept reading this one with unexpected pleasure and interest. Real-life examples helped too. Some concepts that confused me in other textbooks were explained more clearly here; diagrams and charts were easy to understand as well.I bought this book for reviewing before exams, but I imagine it can be very useful for practicing managers.. José said Very good PM book. It is a wonderful and simple book about project management. The book describes the project management with an easy language but with very profundity too.