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1. |  90 Days to Success as a Project Manager By: Paul Sanghera Ph.D. Publisher: Course Technology PTR Publication Date: 20-FEB-2009 Insert Date: 05-JUN-2009 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: 90 Days to Success as a Project Manager 90 Days to Success as a Project Manager will help first-time project managers hit the ground running with any project during the critical first 90 days on the job. The book introduces readers to, and is organized around, the five keys to successful project management: initiating, planning, executing, monitoring and controlling, and closing the project. It covers all nine knowledge areas of project management: integration management, scope management, time management, cost management, quality management, human resource management, communication management, risk management, and procurement...
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2. |  97 Things Every Project Manager Should Know, 1st Edition By: Barbee Davis Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Publication Date: 14-AUG-2009 Insert Date: 13-AUG-2009 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: 97 Things Every Project Manager Should Know, 1st Edition
If the projects you manage don't go as smoothly as you'd like,
97 Things Every Project Manager Should Know offers knowledge
that's priceless, gained through years of trial and error. This
illuminating book contains 97 short and extremely practical tips --
whether you're dealing with software or non-IT projects -- from
some of the world's most experienced project managers and software
developers. You'll learn how these professionals have dealt with
everything from managing teams to handling project stakeholders to
runaway meetings and more.
While this book highlights software projects, its...
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3. |  A GUIDE TO THE PROJECT MANAGEMENT BODY OF KNOWLEDGE (PMBOK® Guide) By: Project Management Institute Publisher: Project Management Institute Publication Date: 01-JAN-2008 Insert Date: 03-SEP-2009 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: A GUIDE TO THE PROJECT MANAGEMENT BODY OF KNOWLEDGE (PMBOK® Guide)
"The PMBOK® Guide – Fourth Edition continues the tradition of excellence in project management with a standard that is even easier to understand and implement, with improved consistency and greater clarification.
What's new?
• Standard language has been incorporated throughout the document to aid reader understanding.
• New data flow diagrams clarify inputs and outputs for each process.
• Greater attention has been placed on how Knowledge Areas integrate in the context of Initiating, Planning, Executing, Monitoring & Controlling, and Closing process groups.
• Two new...
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4. |  A Manager’s Guide to Project Management: Learn How to Apply Best Practices Publisher: FT Press Publication Date: 10-JUL-2009 Insert Date: 25-JUL-2008 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: A Manager’s Guide to Project Management: Learn How to Apply Best Practices This is the Safari online edition of the printed book.
THE FIRST EXECUTIVE’S GUIDE TO
DRIVING GREATER ORGANIZATIONAL VALUE THROUGH PROJECT
MANAGEMENT!
• Align project management with
business strategy
• Choose the right projects and
oversee them effectively
• Structure your organization to
promote better project decision-making
• Manage multiple projects in complex
globalized environments
As an executive, you know there’s only
one reason to start a project: to add value. Now there’s a
project management book that shares your perspective: a book that
helps you optimize the value of...
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5. |  A Survival Guide for Project Managers, Second Edition By: James Taylor Publisher: Amacom Publication Date: 05-MAY-2006 Insert Date: 09-DEC-2007 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: A Survival Guide for Project Managers, Second Edition Seeing a project through to completion involves not just technical
knowledge--of tools like Work Breakdown Schedule, Gantt Charts, and
Network Analysis--but also human skills, such as the ability to
communicate, negotiate, listen, and lead. After all, it's people
who do most of the work on projects, and "people problems" can
derail even the most meticulously planned project. Practical and
user-friendly, A Survival Guide for Project Managers covers
both the technical side and the human side.
Now in an affordable paperback edition, the book has been
revised to reflect the latest version of the...
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6. |  Absolute Beginner’s Guide to Project Management, Second Edition By: Greg Horine Publisher: Que Publication Date: 16-JAN-2009 Insert Date: 06-SEP-2008 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Absolute Beginner’s Guide to Project Management, Second Edition This is the Safari online edition of the printed book.
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...
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7. |  Absolute Beginner's Guide to Project Management Publisher: Que Publication Date: 22-APR-2005 Insert Date: 12-JUL-2005 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Absolute Beginner's Guide to Project Management A new edition of this title is available,
ISBN-10: 078973821X ISBN-13: 9780789738219
You've just been handed your department's
biggest project and you probably aren't sure where to even begin.
Whether you have 6 months or 6 weeks to complete it, being an
effective project manager can make all the difference to the end
result. Absolute Beginner's Guide to Project Management can
help you quickly become an effective and efficient project manager
when time matters most. Through topics such as "building a project
budget and schedule" to "managing vendors," this book will guide
you through what...
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8. |  Applied Software Project Management, 1st Edition By: Andrew Stellman; Jennifer Greene Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Publication Date: 18-NOV-2005 Insert Date: 02-DEC-2005 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Applied Software Project Management, 1st Edition
"If you're looking for solid, easy-to-follow advice on estimation,
requirements gathering, managing change, and more, you can stop
now: this is the book for you." --Scott Berkun, Author of The
Art of Project Management
What makes software projects succeed? It takes more than a good
idea and a team of talented programmers. A project manager needs to
know how to guide the team through the entire software project.
There are common pitfalls that plague all software projects and
rookie mistakes that are made repeatedly--sometimes by the same
people! Avoiding these pitfalls is not hard, but it...
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9. |  By: Charles T. Betz Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publication Date: 20-NOV-2006 Insert Date: 26-MAR-2009 Slots: 1.0 | How would you feel if you visited your financial planner's office
and saw past-due credit card notices on their desk? Would you trust
an auto mechanic whose car backfires and produces black smoke? A
dentist with bad teeth? A banker in shabby clothes? An interior
designer whose offices are a shambles?
This is the position of the IT capability in many large
organizations. The designated custodian of critical business
processes and data does not manage its own processes and data
reliably. A response in the form of Enterprise Resource Planning
for Information Technology is emerging from major...
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10. |  Beautiful Architecture, 1st Edition By: Diomidis Spinellis; Georgios Gousios Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Publication Date: 20-JAN-2009 Insert Date: 14-JAN-2009 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Beautiful Architecture, 1st Edition
What are the ingredients of robust, elegant, flexible, and
maintainable software architecture? Beautiful Architecture
answers this question through a collection of intriguing essays
from more than a dozen of today's leading software designers and
architects. In each essay, contributors present a notable software
architecture, and analyze what makes it innovative and ideal for
its purpose.
Some of the engineers in this book reveal how they developed a
specific project, including decisions they faced and tradeoffs they
made. Others take a step back to investigate how certain
architectural...
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