{"product_id":"practical-project-management-9780471203032","title":"Practical Project Management","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe author has 39 years of experience implementing project management techniques. * Includes unique material based on the author's experiences that cannot be found elsewhere. * Readers can refer to self-contained chapters for quick reference and problem-solving or read the entire book. .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Preface.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 1. Setting Up the Project Management Operation.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 1.1 About Projects and Project Management.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 1.2 Organizing for Project Management.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 1.3 Does Your Company Need a CPO?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 1.4 Implementing a Computer-based Project Management Capability.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 2. Getting Started.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 2.1 Project Initiation Techniques.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 2.2 Do You Weebis? Clarifying WBS, OBS, and RBS.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 2.3 Project Life Cycles.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 3. Scheduling.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 3.1 Critical Path Scheduling.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 3.2 Critical Path, Critical Chain, and Uncertainty: Exploring Concepts of Shared Contingency.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 3.3 Estimating Task Durations.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 3.4 How Important Are Schedules and Time Compression?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 3.5 Practical Scheduling.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 4. Resource and Workforce Management.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 4.1 An Overview of the Different Elements of Resource Management.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 4.2 Role-based Needs for Managing Resources in a Project-driven Organization.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 4.3 Resource Leveling and Games of Chance.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 4.4 Practical Resource Scheduling.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 5. Budgeting and Cost Control.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 5.1 Concepts and Issues of Project Budgeting and Cost Control.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 5.2 Software Support for Cost Management.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 6. Risk Management and Contingency.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 6.1 Using and Managing Contingency.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 6.2 Risk Management for the Sigmaphobic: Managing Schedule, Cost, and Technical Risk and Contingency.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 6.3 Some Computer-based Approaches to Schedule Risk Analysis.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 7. Maintaining the Plan.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 7.1 Change Control and Scope Management.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 7.2 Real-time Status versus Period Data.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 7.3 Automatic Project Management: A Classic Oxymoron.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 8. Performance Measurement.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 8.1 Measuring the Value of Work Accomplishment.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 9. Project Portfolio Management.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 9.1 Defining and Implementing Project Portfolio Management.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 9.2 Bridging the Gap between Operations Management and Projects Management: The Important Role of Project Portfolio Management.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 9.3 Project Selection and Risk: Risk Management Is an Essential Part of Project Portfolio Management.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 10. Project Management, Enterprise Project Management, and Enterprise Resource Planning.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 10.1 The Search for Automated, Integrated, Enterprise-wide Project Management: Minnesota Smith and the Temple of Unrealized Dreams.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 10.2 Integrating PM and ERP.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 11. Project Management and Professional Services Automation.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 11.1 Defining the PSA Market.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 11.2 Building PSA Solutions.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 12. Tools of the Trade.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 12.1 A Simplified and Balanced Approach to PM Software Selection.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 12.2 New Names for Old Games: Rebadging Sound and Proven PM Concepts.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 12.3 The e Revolution: Collaboration Services, B2B, Gateways.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 13. Making Project Management Work.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 13.1 Implementing Project Management: Commitment and Training Ensure Success.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 13.2 Making Project Communication Work: Everything You Need to Know about Project Communication.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 13.3 Why Project Management Implementation Programs Fail.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 13.4 Teams, Task Forces, and Bureaucrats.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 13.5 The Psychological Contract: How to Stimulate Initiative and Innovation in Any Organization.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 13.6 Shared Rewards.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Index.","brand":"John Wiley \u0026 Sons Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402526433623,"sku":"9780471203032","price":48.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780471203032.jpg?v=1730480669","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/practical-project-management-9780471203032","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}