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Absolute Beginner’s Guide to Project Management, Second Edition
By: Greg Horine
Publisher: Que
Pub. Date: January 16, 2009 Most Recent Edition
Print ISBN-10: 0-7897-3821-X
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-7897-3821-9
Web ISBN-10: 0-7686-8746-2
Web ISBN-13: 978-0-7686-8746-0
Pages in Print Edition: 432
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Overview
Why learn project management the hard way?
Absolute Beginner’s Guide to Project Management, Second Edition will have you managing projects in no time! Here’s a small sample of what you’ll learn:
Key concepts and fundamentals behind best-practice project management techniques
The mindset and skill set of effective project managers
Project techniques that work in any industry, with any tools
The common elements of successful projects
Lessons from failed projects
The value and importance of project leadership versus project management
How to manage growing project trends and tough project types that first-time project managers are likely to encounter
How to make better use of Microsoft Project
How to respond when project reality does not match textbook scenarios
Expert insight on key project management concepts and topics
You’ve just been handed your department's biggest project. Absolute Beginner's Guide to Project Management will show you exactly where to start–and walk you step by step through your entire project! Expert project manager Gregory Horine shows you exactly what works and what doesn’t, drawing on the field’s proven best practices. Understand your role as a project manager...gain the skills and discover the personal qualities of great project managers...learn how to organize, estimate, and schedule projects effectively...manage deliverables, issues, changes, risks, quality, vendors, communications, and expectations...make the most of technology...manage virtual teams...avoid the problems that trip up new project managers! This new edition jumpstarts your project management expertise even faster, with all-new insights on Microsoft Project, challenging project situations and intriguing project management topics of the day.
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"Good for beginner's " - by Anonymous on 10-FEB-2013
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"This book is useful to me" - by Tiger on 22-MAR-2010
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This book has critically highlighted many areas essential to become a project manager. Although it does not illustrate nor share experiences of a successful project manager, it does lay down, as I said, the areas which are important. I will come back to this book when one day I review myself against my project management ability. This book is a good beginner but comprehensive guide, and in-depth knowledge is all subjected to your explorer.
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