| Description |
1 online resource (xxiii, 433 pages) : illustrations |
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Business skills series |
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Business skills series (Redmond, Wash.)
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| Summary |
Explains how to use the project management software to build a project schedule, work with a budget, manage project resources, communicate information, manage risk, and archive historical information. |
| Contents |
Getting a Project Started -- 1. Meet Project Management -- 2. Obtaining Approval for a Project -- Planning a Project -- 3. Planning to Achieve Success -- 4. Building a Work Breakdown Structure -- 5. Project Resources -- 6. Building a Project Schedule -- 7. Working with a Budget -- 8. Executing the Project Plan -- 9. Evaluating Project Performance -- 10. Managing Project Resources -- 11. Communicating Information -- Controlling Projects -- 12. Managing Project Changes -- 13. Modifying the Project Schedule -- 14. Balancing the Budget and Other Project Variables -- 15. Managing Risk -- 16. Learning Lessons -- 17. Closing a Project -- 18. Archiving Historical Information -- Beyond Projects -- 19. Selecting and Prioritizing Projects -- 20. Other Project Management Approaches. |
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Introduction -- Getting a Project Started -- Meet Project Management -- What Is a Project -- A Unique Endeavor -- A Specific Goal -- Clear-Cut Start and Finish Dates -- Within Budget -- Something's Gotta Give -- What Is Project Management -- Project Management Processes -- The Benefits of Project Management -- Bottom-Line Benefits -- Benefits for the Project Team -- Summary -- Obtaining Approval for a Project -- Summarizing a Project -- Defining the Problem -- Identifying the Problem -- Documenting the Problem -- Project Goal and Objectives -- Types of Objectives. |
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Characteristics of Good ObjectivesProject Strategy -- Identifying Alternatives -- Factors for Selecting a Project Strategy -- Choosing the Project Strategy -- Gathering Requirements -- Deliverables -- Success Criteria -- The Scope Statement -- Preventing Scope Creep -- Assumptions and Risks -- Working with Project Stakeholders -- Identifying Stakeholders -- How Planning Tasks Help Identify Stakeholders -- Project Customer -- Project Sponsor -- Functional Manager -- Team Member -- Project Manager -- Documenting Project Stakeholders -- Obtaining and Maintaining Commitment -- The Project Charter: Publicizing a Project -- Summary. |
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Planning a ProjectPlanning to Achieve Success -- What Is Project Planning -- Pointing the Team in the Right Direction -- Tracking Progress -- Plans Change -- Project Planning Step by Step -- The Components of a Project Implementation Plan -- Summary -- Building a Work Breakdown Structure -- What's a Work Breakdown Structure -- The Benefits of a WBS -- Building a WBS -- How to Build a WBS from the Top Down -- When to Stop Building a WBS -- Building a WBS from the Bottom Up -- Recording a WBS -- Creating the WBS in Project -- Pasting Tasks into Project -- Detailing Work Packages -- Summary -- Project Resources. |
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The Responsibility MatrixResponsibility Levels -- Creating a Responsibility Matrix -- The Project Organization Chart -- Putting a Project Team Together -- Creating Resources in Project -- Types of Resources -- Adding Resources to Project -- Resource Information -- Summary -- Building a Project Schedule -- Estimating -- Duration or Effort -- Sensible Estimating Practices -- Top-Down Planning -- Defining the Sequence of Work -- Types of Task Dependencies -- Identifying the Correct Dependency Type -- Creating Task Dependencies -- Keeping Dependencies Flexible -- Setting Specific Start and Finish Dates -- Setting Deadlines. |
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Adding Schedule MilestonesTypes of Milestones -- Creating Milestones -- Assigning Resources to Tasks -- Assigning Resources in the Task Sheet -- Assigning Resources in the Task Form -- Using the Assign Resources Dialog Box -- Building Reality into a Schedule -- Accounting for Nonproject Time -- Adjusting Tasks for Resource Productivity -- Managing Part-Time Workers and Multitaskers -- Scheduling Around Nonworking Time -- Shortening a Project Schedule -- The Fast-Track to an Early Finish -- Choosing Tasks to Fast-Track -- Part ial. Overlaps -- Running Tasks in Parallel -- A Crash Course on Project Crashing -- Reducing Scope. |
| Subject |
Microsoft Project.
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Microsoft Project. |
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Microsoft Project |
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Microsoft Project (Computer software) |
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Project management -- Computer programs.
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Project management -- Computer programs |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Biafore, Bonnie. Successful project management. Sebastopol, CA : O'Reilly Media, ©2011 9780735649804 (OCoLC)676727505 |
| ISBN |
9780735661905 (electronic bk.) |
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0735661901 (electronic bk.) |
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9780735661820 (electronic bk.) |
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0735661820 (electronic bk.) |
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