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The Project Manager : Mastering the Art of Delivery.

By: Material type: TextCopyright date: ©2013Publisher: Harlow : Pearson Education, Limited, 2010Edition: 2nd edDescription: 1 online resource (330 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780273723226
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 658.4/04
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Contents:
Front Cover -- The Project Manager -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- The secret art -- Why read this book? -- A brief word on job titles -- Work-streams, projects, programmes and portfolios -- A short overview of the contents -- Some basics -- What is a project? What is project management? -- What is a project manager? -- Who are projects for? -- What is success? -- Listening and talking -- The most important chapter in the book -- Your audience - whom you must listen and talk to -- Listening - learning to understand what the customer wants -- Communicating with your audience -- What actually is your project? -- The importance of understanding scope -- The key scoping questions -- Some key traits -- The sense of ownership and involvement -- Good judgement - project management style -- Project management judgements - summary -- A touch of creativity -- Getting your project started -- Planning -- Estimating -- Resourcing -- Budgeting -- Thinking about contingency and risk -- Mobilising -- Projects in the real world - common practical issues to overcome -- Personal styles -- Styles to avoid -- Styles to encourage -- Managing your project -- What should you manage? -- How do you know when to take management action? -- How should you manage? -- Change control and management -- Decision making -- The team -- Getting the best from the project team -- The limits of knowledge -- The generalist vs the specialist -- What should project managers not do? -- Specialist skills that should be recognised as not being the project manager's job -- The mechanics of project management -- The project manager's toolkit -- What more can you learn? -- Knowing when to say 'no' -- When do you actually need a project manager? -- Knowing the danger signals -- Constructively killing projects off -- Just say 'no' -- The wider context -- Strategy and projects.
Operations and projects -- Programme management -- Portfolio management -- Change management -- Benefits management -- Governance -- Closing thoughts -- Quick reference guide - summary contents -- Index -- Back Cover.
Summary: Successful project management is ultimately about effective communication, and more broadly, effective people management. Most books, however, deal largely with process - the mechanical, methodological side, and play down the human side. The Project Manager is a fresh approach to project management: it moves beyond the formal methodologies and techniques to shed light on the core skills that will make you a great project manager. It puts the project manager centre stage and provides you with an invaluable set of experience-based lessons, tips, and advice to help you consistently deliver the results you want. Whether you are a project manager yourself, or someone who works with or recruits project managers, this book will be essential reading. The full text downloaded to your computer With eBooks you can: search for key concepts, words and phrases make highlights and notes as you study share your notes with friends eBooks are downloaded to your computer and accessible either offline through the Bookshelf (available as a free download), available online and also via the iPad and Android apps. Upon purchase, you will receive via email the code and instructions on how to access this product. Time limit The eBooks products do not have an expiry date. You will continue to access your digital ebook products whilst you have your Bookshelf installed.
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Front Cover -- The Project Manager -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- The secret art -- Why read this book? -- A brief word on job titles -- Work-streams, projects, programmes and portfolios -- A short overview of the contents -- Some basics -- What is a project? What is project management? -- What is a project manager? -- Who are projects for? -- What is success? -- Listening and talking -- The most important chapter in the book -- Your audience - whom you must listen and talk to -- Listening - learning to understand what the customer wants -- Communicating with your audience -- What actually is your project? -- The importance of understanding scope -- The key scoping questions -- Some key traits -- The sense of ownership and involvement -- Good judgement - project management style -- Project management judgements - summary -- A touch of creativity -- Getting your project started -- Planning -- Estimating -- Resourcing -- Budgeting -- Thinking about contingency and risk -- Mobilising -- Projects in the real world - common practical issues to overcome -- Personal styles -- Styles to avoid -- Styles to encourage -- Managing your project -- What should you manage? -- How do you know when to take management action? -- How should you manage? -- Change control and management -- Decision making -- The team -- Getting the best from the project team -- The limits of knowledge -- The generalist vs the specialist -- What should project managers not do? -- Specialist skills that should be recognised as not being the project manager's job -- The mechanics of project management -- The project manager's toolkit -- What more can you learn? -- Knowing when to say 'no' -- When do you actually need a project manager? -- Knowing the danger signals -- Constructively killing projects off -- Just say 'no' -- The wider context -- Strategy and projects.

Operations and projects -- Programme management -- Portfolio management -- Change management -- Benefits management -- Governance -- Closing thoughts -- Quick reference guide - summary contents -- Index -- Back Cover.

Successful project management is ultimately about effective communication, and more broadly, effective people management. Most books, however, deal largely with process - the mechanical, methodological side, and play down the human side. The Project Manager is a fresh approach to project management: it moves beyond the formal methodologies and techniques to shed light on the core skills that will make you a great project manager. It puts the project manager centre stage and provides you with an invaluable set of experience-based lessons, tips, and advice to help you consistently deliver the results you want. Whether you are a project manager yourself, or someone who works with or recruits project managers, this book will be essential reading. The full text downloaded to your computer With eBooks you can: search for key concepts, words and phrases make highlights and notes as you study share your notes with friends eBooks are downloaded to your computer and accessible either offline through the Bookshelf (available as a free download), available online and also via the iPad and Android apps. Upon purchase, you will receive via email the code and instructions on how to access this product. Time limit The eBooks products do not have an expiry date. You will continue to access your digital ebook products whilst you have your Bookshelf installed.

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