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201. |  Requirements-Led Project Management: Discovering David's Slingshot By: Suzanne Robertson; James Robertson Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Publication Date: 20-AUG-2004 Insert Date: 18-JUN-2005 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Requirements-Led Project Management: Discovering David's Slingshot Requirements are a crucial ingredient of any successful project.
This is true for any product--software, hardware, consumer
appliance, or large-scale construction. You have to understand its
requirements--what is needed and desired--if you are to build the
right product. Most developers recognize the truth in this
statement, even if they don't always live up to it.
Far less obvious, however, is the contribution that the
requirements activity makes to project management. Requirements,
along with other outputs from the requirements activity, are potent
project management tools.
In...
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202. |  By: Rob Thomsett Publisher: Prentice Hall Publication Date: 15-APR-2002 Insert Date: 14-MAR-2003 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Radical Project Management Project management for today's complex, chaotic business
environments.
XPM: the first radically new approach to project management in
decades!
Designed from the ground up for today's high-speed,
fast-changing projects
Refocusing project management focused on people, relationships,
and adding value!
Innovative new XPM tools: how to make them work in your
organization
Traditional project management doesn't work any more: it's
inward-looking, static, and just can't respond to rapid, constant
change. Radical Project Management looks outward to
stakeholders, management, and...
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203. |  By: Chris Chapman; Stephen Ward Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 27-MAR-2012 Insert Date: 25-APR-2012 Slots: 1.0 |
Since I wrote the Foreword for the second edition of this book, risk management processes have become much more widely used, but controversy about what should be done and how best to do it has grown. Managing risk is a risky business. Chapman and Ward provide an in-depth explanation of why it is important to understand and manage underlying uncertainty in all its forms, in order to realise opportunities more fully and enhance corporate performance. They show what best practice should look like. The implications go well beyond the conventional wisdom of project risk management, providing an...
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204. |  The Project Management Tool Kit: 100 Tips and Techniques for Getting the Job Done Right By: Tom Kendrick Publisher: Amacom Publication Date: 01-APR-2004 Insert Date: 09-DEC-2007 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Project Management Tool Kit: 100 Tips and Techniques for Getting the Job Done Right The Project Management Tool Kit presents proven project
management practices in an accessible, easy-to-apply formatBased on established methodologies used by successful project
managers in many fields, the Tool Kit features comprehensive
summaries of all the processes outlined in the most recent edition
of the PMBOK® (Project Management Body of Knowledge). Complete with checklists and other tools for quick
implementation, here is a practical and complete guide to mastering
any project challenge....
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205. |  Project Management: Get from the idea to implementation successfully, Fourth Edition By: Marion E. Haynes Publisher: Axzo Press Publication Date: 06-NOV-2009 Insert Date: 23-SEP-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Project Management: Get from the idea to implementation successfully, Fourth Edition
Build a building. Develop software. Relocate your office. Whatever initiative you need to accomplish, the proven principles of Project Management will help you achieve success. Developed as a discipline during the U.S. space program, today Project Management helps businesses and their leaders identify and leverage the talent, facilities, techniques and finances to achieve their objectives.
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206. |  Project Management with dotProject By: Lee Jordan; Publisher: Packt Publishing Publication Date: 10-MAY-2007 Insert Date: 28-DEC-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Project Management with dotProject
"A complete beginner’s guide to every aspect of setting up and administering your dotProject installation
Install and use the dotProject project management system
Customize and extend dotProject
Work with reports and Gantt charts
Configure dotProject for LDAP authentication and PostNuke
Customize dotProject to blend with your corporate sites
In Detail
This is a comprehensive beginner’s book on dotProject and deals with the basics of implementing and configuring dotProject. It is a simple guide to setting up an internal project management solution as quickly as...
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207. | 
What Keeps Project Managers from Managing Their Projects? Publisher: FT Press Publication Date: 01-FEB-2010 Insert Date: 27-FEB-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: What Keeps Project Managers from Managing Their Projects? This Element is an excerpt from A
Manager's Guide to Project Management: Learn How to Apply Best
Practices (ISBN: 9780137136902) by Michael B. Bender. Available
in print and digital formats.
What senior managers can do to drive more
effective project execution–and what they need to stop
doing!
As a seminar leader and management
consultant, I frequently find that clients have skilled project
managers, yet their organizations still struggle to complete
projects on time and budget. A variety of issues can plague even
the best project managers. Here, let’s examine the crucial
influence senior...
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208. |  On Time! On Track! On Target! Managing Your Projects Successfully with Microsoft® Project By: Bonnie Biafore Publisher: Microsoft Press Publication Date: 15-MAR-2006 Insert Date: 14-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: On Time! On Track! On Target! Managing Your Projects Successfully with Microsoft® Project Keep your project on time, on track, and on target! This practical guide focuses on the core skills you need to successfully manage any project with Microsoft Project. Includes a companion CD with sample Project templates....
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209. |  OpenProj: The Open Source Solution for Managing Your Projects By: Lisa A. Bucki Publisher: Course Technology PTR Publication Date: 23-SEP-2008 Insert Date: 05-JUN-2009 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: OpenProj: The Open Source Solution for Managing Your Projects Accelerating demand for project management skills and tools has created a hunger for solutions. Businesses and individuals want a disciplined way to manage projects, and until recently, most project management programs and enterprise solutions have been costly. OpenProj solves this problem. It provides a free, open source desktop alternative to Microsoft Project. Since its release in January 2008, OpenProj has already been downloaded over 375,000 times in over 142 countries and has quickly become one of the most popular open source applications. OpenProj: The Open Source Solution for Managing...
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210. |  The Juggler’s Guide to Managing Multiple Projects By: Michael Singer Dobson Publisher: Project Management Institute Publication Date: 01-DEC-1999 Insert Date: 28-AUG-2005 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Juggler’s Guide to Managing Multiple Projects In the past, most project management books have focused on managing
one project, but in today’s increasingly busy and stressful
world, it has become necessary to calmly and efficiently manage
more than one project—often several
projects—successfully at the same time. This learned skill is
valuable not only for project managers, but also for anyone
responsible for the successful outcome of multiple projects,
whether it is at the office or in the home! Dobson says that you
must first have a strong foundation in time management and priority
setting, then introduces the concept of Portfolio...
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211. |  Project Management: Intermediate By: Axzo Press LLC Publisher: ILT Publication Date: 01-JAN-2002 Insert Date: 13-MAR-2004 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Project Management: Intermediate
Axzo Press ILT manuals facilitate your learning by providing structured interaction with the software itself. It provides text to explain difficult concepts,
the hands-on activities are the focus of our courses. The basic approach of setting expectations, delivering instruction, and providing summary and review afterwards.
Coverage includes—
To use Axzo Press ILT manuals in
general.
To use course objectives to properly set your
expectations for the course.
Re-key this course after class.
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212. |  Project Management Accounting: Budgeting, Tracking, and Reporting Costs and Profitability By: Kevin R. Callahan; Gary S. Stetz; LynneBrooks M. Brooks Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 06-APR-2007 Insert Date: 06-DEC-2007 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Project Management Accounting: Budgeting, Tracking, and Reporting Costs and Profitability Praise for Project Management Accounting: Budgeting,
Tracking, and Reporting Costs and Profitability"You don't need to be a Six Sigma Black Belt or a CPA to
understand the principles and the practical tools presented by
Callahan, Stetz, and Brooks in Project Management
Accounting. Their approach focuses on sound financial practices
that will improve the ROI of your project whether it is your first
or your hundred-and-first experience."
—Barry Van Dyck, PhD
Director of Degree Programs, Executive Education, Mendoza College
of Business, University of Notre Dame"Project Management Accounting...
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213. |  Project Management in the Real World By: Elizabeth Harrin Publisher: British Informatics Society Limited Publication Date: 23-NOV-2006 Insert Date: 04-OCT-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Project Management in the Real World
Success in project management terms is measured as work completed on time, within budget, delivering what the customer asked for. This book offers hints and tips on controlling budget, time, scope and people. It explores: managing project budgets; managing project scope; managing project teams; managing project plans; and, managing yourself.
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214. |  Lessons in Project Management, Second Edition By: Tom Mochal; Jeff Mochal Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 12-SEP-2011 Insert Date: 06-SEP-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Lessons in Project Management, Second Edition
Most of the project management books on the market are basically textbooks. They are dry to begin with, and don't focus on the practical advice that most people need to run their projects. Lessons in Project Management, Second Edition does not assume that you are a project manager building a nuclear reactor or sending a man to the moon. Instead, it focuses on the millions of people who manage normal, medium-to-large projects on an ongoing basis.
Each case study in Lessons in Project Management contains an accessible, easy-to-read analysis of the challenges of real-world project...
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215. |  By: Bill Shackelford Publisher: American Society for Training & Development Publication Date: 15-DEC-2002 Insert Date: 17-SEP-2005 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Project Managing E-Learning
Launching and managing a successful e-learning project is much easier when you use the proven steps and strategies in this practical guide. Learn why e-learning projects often fail and how to avoid technical issues that can bring an e-learning project to a halt. Practical hands-on exercises and worksheets and a companion website with helpful downloads make it easier and quicker to improve a current project or plan future e-learning initiatives.
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216. |  Identifying and Managing Project Risk: Essential Tools for Failure-Proofing Your Project By: Tom Kendrick Publisher: AMACOM Publication Date: 14-MAR-2003 Insert Date: 22-OCT-2004 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Identifying and Managing Project Risk: Essential Tools for Failure-Proofing Your Project There's a good reason project risk management is one of the most vital of the nine content areas of the Project Management Body of Knowledge (TM). Important projects tend to be time constrained, pose huge technical challenges, and suffer from a lack of adequate resources. It's no wonder that project managers are increasingly focusing their attention on risk identification.
Identifying and Managing Project Risk is a practical guide to minimizing the possibility of failure in critical projects. The book takes readers step by step through every phase of a project, showing them how to consider...
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217. |  Goal Directed Project Management, 4th Edition By: Erling Erling Andersen Publisher: Kogan Page Publication Date: 03-JUN-2009 Insert Date: 06-NOV-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Goal Directed Project Management, 4th Edition Goal Directed Project Management (GDPM) is a unique methodology that has been developed and refined by the authors over a period of more than 20 years. In this time, organizations all over the world have adopted it as a standard approach.
The central focus of GDPM is to develop understanding, commitment and involvement while managing successful and lasting change. Throughout the text, the authors emphasise the need for a 'PSO' (People, System and Organization) perspective that goes beyond the technical aspects dealt with by most project management literature, enhancing and prolonging the...
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218. |  Making It Happen: A Non-Technical Guide to Project Management By: Mackenzie Kyle Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 16-JUL-1998 Insert Date: 11-MAY-2009 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Making It Happen: A Non-Technical Guide to Project Management
Making It Happen: A Non-Technical Guide to Project Management provides a fresh and clear approach to project management. Written in the form of a novel, it covers the basics of project management in a friendly, interesting, and memorable way.
Will Campbell, a reasonably competent middle manager, is suddenly thrust into managing a high-profile project that could make or break his career. With no project management experience, and armed only with the guidance of his eccentric menror, Martha, Will learns the hard way. As Will navigates the rough seas of company politics, treacherous...
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219. |  Managing Health Programs and Projects By: Beaufort B. Longest Jr. Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publication Date: 08-JUL-2004 Insert Date: 13-FEB-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Managing Health Programs and Projects
This essential resource shows how to effectively organize, implement, and evaluate health programs and projects. Managing Health Programs and Projects clearly defines and describes the work of managers in health programs and projects. The book explores the decision-making process, defines the process of communicating, probes the fundamentals of program planning, explains budgeting, covers staffing for programs and projects, and explains how leaders motivate participants in health programs and projects.
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220. |  By: Axzo Press LLC Publisher: ILT Publication Date: 01-JAN-2002 Insert Date: 13-MAR-2004 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Project Management: Basic
Axzo Press ILT manuals facilitate your learning by providing structured interaction with the software itself. It provides text to explain difficult concepts,
the hands-on activities are the focus of our courses. The basic approach of setting expectations, delivering instruction, and providing summary and review afterwards.
Coverage includes—
To use Axzo Press ILT manuals in
general.
To use course objectives to properly set your
expectations for the course.
Re-key this course after class.
...
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