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	Project Manager by T L Young
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Description: The prospect of managing a project forces many people to ask if they have the skills necessary. Designed to give you guidance through the process of managing a project effectively, How to be a better Project Managre will help you to become better at the job. Containing practical and well tested techniques to improve your chances of success, this step-by-step guide will help you to:

¢ Keep the project on track

¢ Ensure that project timetables are set and adhered to

¢ Keep control of costs

¢ Ensure teamwork is effective throughout the project.

Complete with checklists, case studies and steps to improvement, this practical guide covers the entire project management process from defining and planning to implementation and evaluation.

¢ Improve your performance

¢ Update your skills

¢ Learn new techniques

¢ Boost your career prospects

Contents: Introduction: How does this affect you? ¢ Why are projects special?: What are the skills you will need? ¢ What is project management? ¢ Your role as the project manager ¢ The project manager and leadership: The project stakeholders ¢ The dimensions of project leadership: Managing stakeholders ¢ Managing the project dynamic life-cycle ¢ Managing performance ¢ What about teamwork? ¢ A case study ¢ Project Start-Up: Who is the real customer? ¢ Who are the end-users? ¢ How is the customer satisfied? ¢ What are the customer needs? ¢ What are the project constraints? ¢ What documentation is required? ¢ Who owns the project file? ¢ Why use a project log book? ¢ Defining your project: What is necessary to define a project? ¢ Risk assessment ¢ What do I do now? ¢ Getting your project definition approved ¢ Planning your project: Who needs to be involved? ¢ Where does planning start? ¢ Key stages ¢ The project work breakdown structure ¢ Allocating responsibility ¢ Estimating ¢ Identifying the critical path of your project ¢ Analyse your resource requirements ¢ Optimizing your schedule ¢ Review your project risk log ¢ Review the baseline plan ¢ Seeking approval to launch your project ¢ The project launch: How can I confirm resource commitments? ¢ Establishing a milestone schedule ¢ Ensuring effective communication ¢ Project status reports ¢ What meetings do I need ? ¢ Handling project changes ¢ Hold a launch meeting ¢ Controlling the work?: How do I cope with new information? ¢ What is control? ¢ Design your control system ¢ Monitoring progress ¢ How can I manage the issues? ¢ Tracking your project ¢ How do I control costs? ¢ Projects and conflict: Why does conflict occur? ¢ Is conflict good or bad? ¢ Types of conflict ¢ Conflicts and risk ¢ How can I manage conflict? ¢ Encouraging effective use of time: Barriers to effective time management ¢ What can I do? ¢ Working in a matrix: What can I do? ¢ Empires ¢ Have regular one-to-ones ¢ Closing your project: What is project drift? ¢ Have you set the completion criteria? ¢ The acceptance process ¢ Set up a close-out meeting ¢ Evaluation ¢ Post-project appraisals ¢ And for my next trick... ¢ Appendix 1: Case study commentary ¢ Appendix 2: Analysing the logic diagram ¢ Appendix 3: Further reading ¢ Index

About the Author: Trevor Young is a senior consultant for the Industrial Society and is currently advising many organisations on change management development programmes. He is also the author of The Handbook of Project Management

The Industrial Society is a not-for profit organization. Its overarching vision is to unlock the potential of people and organisations by promoting ethical standards, excellence and learning at work.

Target Audience: Project managers.
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ISBN 9788175544253