Project management for dummies

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Hauptverfasser: Portny, Jonathan L. (VerfasserIn), Portny, Stanley E. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Hoboken, New Jersey Wiley [2022]
Ausgabe:6th edition
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • Intro
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Table of Contents
  • Introduction
  • About This Book
  • Foolish Assumptions
  • Icons Used in This Book
  • Beyond the Book
  • Where to Go from Here
  • Part 1 Getting Started with Project Management
  • Chapter 1 Project Management: The Key to Achieving Results
  • Determining What Makes a Project a Project
  • Understanding the three main components that define a project
  • Recognizing the diversity of projects
  • Describing the four phases of a project life cycle
  • Adopting a Principled Approach to Project Management
  • Starting with stewardship and leadership
  • Continuing with team and stakeholders
  • Delivering value and quality
  • Handling complexity, opportunities, and threats
  • Exhibiting adaptability and resilience
  • Thinking holistically and enabling change
  • What Happened to Process Groups and Knowledge Areas?
  • Do You Have What It Takes to Be an Effective Project Manager?
  • Questions
  • Answer key
  • Relating This Chapter to the PMP Exam and PMBOK 7
  • Chapter 2 I'm a Project Manager! Now What?
  • Knowing the Project Manager's Role
  • Looking at the project manager's tasks
  • Staving off excuses for not following a structured project management approach
  • Avoiding shortcuts
  • Staying aware of other potential challenges
  • Aligning with the Four Values that Comprise the Code of Ethics
  • The price of greatness is responsibility
  • R-e-s-p-e-c-t, find out what it means to. . .your project
  • Maintaining fairness
  • Honesty is the best policy
  • Relating This Chapter to the PMP Exam and PMBOK 7
  • Chapter 3 Beginning the Journey: The Genesis of a Project
  • Gathering Ideas for Projects
  • Looking at information sources for potential projects
  • Proposing a project in a business case
  • Developing the Project Charter
  • Performing a cost-benefit analysis
  • Conducting a feasibility study
  • Generating documents during the development of the project charter
  • Deciding Which Projects to Move to the Second Phase of Their Life Cycle
  • Tailoring Your Delivery Approach
  • For the organization
  • For the project
  • Identifying the Models, Methods, and Artifacts to Use
  • Relating This Chapter to the PMP Exam and PMBOK 7
  • Chapter 4 Knowing Your Project's Stakeholders: Involving the Right People
  • Understanding Your Project's Stakeholders
  • Developing a Stakeholder Register
  • Starting your stakeholder register
  • Using specific categories
  • Considering stakeholders that are often overlooked
  • Examining the beginning of a sample stakeholder register
  • Ensuring your stakeholder register is complete and up-to-date
  • Using a stakeholder register template
  • Determining Whether Stakeholders Are Drivers, Supporters, or Observers
  • Deciding when to involve your stakeholders
  • Drivers
  • Supporters
  • Observers
  • Using different methods to involve your stakeholders
  • Making the most of your stakeholders' involvement