Project Management For Dummies

Project Management For Dummies, 4th Edition
Autor:	Stanley E. Portny
Datum publikace:	22.4.2013
Vydavatel:	For Dummies
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Web:	http://my.safaribooksonline.com/book/project-management/9781118497135
ISBN:	978-1-118-49723-4

PART I. Getting Started with Project Management

1. Project Management: Key to Achieving Results

• Determining what makes a project a project
• Defining project management
• Knowing the project manager's role
• Do you have what it takes to be and effective project manager
• Relating this chapter to the PMP Exam and PMBOK 5

2. Knowing Your Project's Audience: Involving the Right People

• Understanding your project's audiences
• Developing an audience list
• Considering the drivers, supporters and observers in your audience
• Displaying your audience list
• Confirming your audience's authority
• Assessing your audience's power and interest
• Relating this chapter to the PMP Exam and PMBOK 5

3. Clarifying What You're Trying to Accomplish - And Why

• Defining your project with a scope statement
• Looking at the big picture: Explaining the need for your project
• Marking boundaries: Project contraints
• Facing the unknowns when planning: Documenting your assumptions
• Presenting your scope statement in a clear and concise document
• Relating this chapter to the PMP Exam and PMBOK 5

4. Developing Your Game Plan: Getting from Here to There

• Divide and Conquer: breaking your project into manageable chunks
• Creating and displaying your work breakdown structure
• Identifying risks while detailing your work
• Documenting what you need to know about your planned project work
• Relating this chapter to the PMP Exam and PMBOK 5

PART II: Planning Time: Determining When and How Much

5. You Want This Project Done When

• Picture this: Illustrating a work plan with a network diagram
• Analyzing a network diagram
• Working with your project's network diagram
• Developing your project's schedule
• Estimating activity duration
• Displaying your project's schedule
• Relating this chapter to the PMP Exam and PMBOK 5

6. Establishing Whom You Need, How Much and When

• Getting the information you need to match people to tasks
• Estimating needed commitment
• Ensuring your project team members can meet their resource commitments
• Relating this chapter to the PMP Exam and PMBOK 5

===7. Planning for other resources and developing the budget

• Determining nonpersonnel resource needs
• Making sense of the dollars: Project costs and budgets
• Relating this chapter to the PMP Exam and PMBOK 5

8. Venturing into the Unknown: Dealing with Risk

• Defining Risk and risk management
• Focusing on risk factors and risks
• Assessing risks: probability and consequences
• Getting everything under control: managing risk
• Preparing a risk-management plan
• Relating this chapter to the PMP Exam and PMBOK 5

PART III: Group Work: Putting Your Team Together

9. Aligning the Key Players for Your Project

• Defining three organizational environments
• Recognizing the key players in a matrix environment
• Working successfully in a matrix environment
• Relating this chapter to the PMP Exam and PMBOK 5

10. Defining Team Member's Roles and Responsibilities

• Outlining the key roles
• Making project assignements
• Picture this: Depicting roles with a responsibility assignement matrix
• Dealing with micromanagement
• Relating this chapter to the PMP Exam and PMBOK 5

11. Starting Your Project Team Off on the Right Foot

• Finalizing your project's participants
• Developing your team
• Laying the groundwork for controlling your project
• Hear ye, hear ye! Announcing your project
• Setting the stage for your post-project evaluation
• Relating this chapter to the PMP Exam and PMBOK 5

PART IV: Steering the Ship: Managing Your Project to Success

12. Tracking Progress and Maintaining Control

• Holding on the reins: Project control
• Establishing project management information systems
• Putting your control process into action
• Reacting responsibly when changes are requested
• Relating this chapter to the PMP Exam and PMBOK 5

13. Keeping Everyone Informed

• I said what I meant and I meant what I said: Successful communication basics
• Choosing the appropriate medium for project communication
• Preparing a written project-progress report
• Holding key project meetings
• Preparing a project communications management plan
• Relating this chapter to the PMP Exam and PMBOK 5

14. Encouraging Peak Performance by Providing Effective Leadership

• Exploring the difference between leadership and management
• Recognizing the traits people look for in a leader
• Developing personal power and influence
• You can do it! Creating and sustaining team member motivation
• Relating this chapter to the PMP Exam and PMBOK 5

15. Bringing Your Project to Closure

• Staying the course to completion
• Handling administrative issues
• Providing a smooth transition for team members
• Surveying the results: the post-project evaluation
• Relating this chapter to the PMP Exam and PMBOK 5

PART V: Taking your project management to the next level

16. Using Technology to Enhance Project Planning and Management

• Using computer software effectively
• Using social media to enhance project management
• Relating this chapter to the PMP Exam and PMBOK 5

17. Monitoring Project Performance with Earned Value Management

• Defining Earned Value Management
• How-To: applying earned value management to your project
• Determining a task's earned value
• Relating this chapter to the PMP Exam and PMBOK 5

PART VI: Part of Tens

18. Ten Questions to Ask Yourself as You Plan Your Project

• What's the purpose of your project
• Whom do you need to involve
• What results will you produce
• What constraints must you satisfy
• What assumptions are you making
• What work has to be done
• When does each activity start and end
• Who wil perform the project work
• What other resources do you need
• What can go wrong

19. Ten Tips for Being a Better Project Manager

• Be a "Why" Person
• Be a "Can do" person
• Think about the big picture
• Think in detail
• Assume cautiously
• View people as allies
• Say what you mean and mean what you say
• Respect other people
• Acknowledge good performance
• Be a manager and a leader

Appendix: Combining the techniques into Smooth-Flowing Processes

• Preparing Your Project Plan
• Controlling Your Project during Performance
• Cheat Sheet

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