Project Management Essentials You Always Wanted To Know

Simplified explanation of concepts
Chapter Summaries
Solutions to Practice Exercises
Practical approaches for application
Best Practices
Project Management Templates


As employees move into a project management role, they need to learn new skills. These would include management of several different dimensions of a project to deliver the project successfully. Project Management Essentials You Always Wanted to Know: 5th Edition provides the core information about how to manage the complexity of modern projects with improved easy-to-understand explanations, a new WBS template and a new chapter on Agile. The new edition, includes topics such as:
Project management overview
Project Initiation - Constraints, Stakeholders, PMO, Life Cycles
Project Planning - WBS,CPM, Budgeting, Quality, Resources, Communications, Risk, Procurement, Stakeholders
Project Execution - Audits, Resources, Communications
Project Monitoring & Controlling - Tracking, Quality Control, Change Control
Project Closure
Agile Overview (new)

About the Series
The Self-Learning Management series is designed to help students, new managers, career switchers and entrepreneurs learn essential management lessons. This series is designed to address every aspect of business from HR to Finance to Marketing to Operations, be it any industry. Each book includes basic fundamentals, important concepts, standard and well-known principles as well as practical ways of application of the subject matter. The distinctiveness of the series lies in that all the relevant information is bundled in a compact form that is very easy to interpret.