Books in the ESI International Project Management Series series

The work breakdown structure (WBS) helps project managers communicate with their teams, clients, and management. This book offers an eight-step process that facilitates the development of the WBS. It features a process that defines the project through its deliverables and validates the initial target date by critical path analysis.

Revised edition of: PMP exam challenge! / J. LeRoy Ward, Ginger Levin. 5th ed.

A book on project management.

From enterprise vision and mission to business requirements to project initiation and management to operations, this guide explains the basic elements needed for project success and integrates them into a balanced life-cycle continuum. It includes a decision tree for determining the most appropriate level of project documentation.

A practical, step-by-step guide to managing web-based projects, this hands-on approach demystifies even the most daunting tasks. Using common sense tips and proven tools, international consultant Edward B. Farkas outlines a typical project lifecycle including project integration, scope and scope change, and work breakdown structures. He addresses concepts such as risk, time, human resources, communications, and quality management. Dozens of templates, schedules, checklists, and flow charts, prepare you to become a project management professional, fully versed in and aligned with the nine knowledge areas and five processes codified by the internationally accepted standards of the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK®).

This book details what it takes to initiate, develop, implement, and govern a strategy that delivers the benefits expected by all stakeholders. It presents insights gained by the author¿s organization over the last 25 years helping their clients succeed with their strategic initiatives. It illustrates wide-ranging situations where the author¿s company helped clients reach important business objectives. Readers can use the book to look up examples that describe the various ways to use agile methods and techniques for critical business functions, including stakeholder identification, team building, project and program quality management, and procurement of resources.

Illustrating the why, what, and how of project management, Project Management Concepts, Methods, and Techniques will help readers develop and refine the skills needed to achieve strategic objectives. It presents a balanced blend of detailed explanatory texts and more than 200 illustrations to supply readers with actionable knowledge that can be put to use immediately. Completely aligned with the Project Management Institute Body of Knowledge (PMBOK®), this book is the ideal platform for developing the understanding needed to plan, schedule, and deliver successful projects.

Explores various competency models for program management. This book delineates a competency model that follows the framework of PMI's model for project managers but is applied to program managers with performance and personal competencies.

Suitable for project managers in the internetworking industry, this title walks you through a typical project life cycle, and provides you with the tools and definitions needed to take charge and instill confidence in your staff and your customers.