Practical Project Management (The Career Booster Series Book 3)

The Career Booster series is written by Nick Graham, a successful author of several books in the well- known ‘For Dummies®’ series published by John Wiley. The Career Booster books share the same relaxed but informative style and are written to help you get ahead in your management career whether you have been a manager for a while or are just starting out. This book on projects is the third in the series and explains powerful techniques to help you plan and run a project successfully . . . and helps you avoid a few bear traps along the way.
Project management is now seen as a key management skill, not just something for career project managers. Just about all managers will be involved in a project at some point, and for many they will need to set them up and run them not just play a part on the side-lines. Running a project well is a good way to get noticed as an effective manager who can get the job done. Being successful with projects isn’t normal though, which is one of the reasons you have an opportunity to shine. A huge number of projects continue to go wrong worldwide, sometimes on a very big scale, and mostly for reasons that are both predictable and preventable. The problems often start with poor planning . . . or no real planning at all. This very practical ebook gives you the basics you need to plan and control a project. It includes the enormously powerful product-based planning approach which is very logical for planning your project in the first place, but then for control where it helps with things like progress monitoring and spotting and managing risks.
Practical Project Management isn’t some sketchy outline written by someone who doesn’t really understand. Nick brings long, professional project management expertise to bear in this ebook, but in a way that is easy to understand and easy to apply.
Nick is a member of the Institute of Directors (MIoD) and the Association for Project Management (MAPM) in the UK.