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E-book Title: A Guide to Project Management: An Introduction to Principles and Practice
Author: Trevor Cater
Book Description: Whether you are new to project management or have already been involved in a number of projects previously, this no-nonsense introductory guide will help you get the most from projects. As you work through the guide, you can begin using the supplied project templates. The templates are reusable and customizable and cover all of the major project management activities.
This guide will introduce you to every aspect of project management, including initiating projects, project methods and principles, managing stakeholders, risks, issues and changes, conducting reviews and leading a high performance project team, and more. You will quickly get a grasp of the complexity of project management and its terminology with this easy to read guide. Suitable for projects of all types and sizes.
Do the projects you run or participate in:
• deliver a solution that was not asked for?
• continually run over budget and over time?
• frustrate everyone with its constantly changing parameters?
• raise stress levels to the limit with the mad rush to get things finished?
• deliver products and services that are littered with problems?
• leave everyone wondering why the project was started in the first place?
• see tempers flare on a regular basis?
• attract little interest and support from executives and senior managers?
• leave everyone burned out by the end of a project?
Learn about:
• scope creep and how to avoid it
• project documents and how to use them to your advantage
• project stakeholders and how to get them to work for you and not against you
• project risks and issues and how to prevent them from sinking your project
This guide is used by everyone involved in projects, including:
• Project Managers
• Project Team Leaders
• Project Team Members
• Line Managers
• Business Owners
• Project Analysts
• Project Sponsors
• End Users
• Designers
• Project Implementers
Discover the eight key project management disciplines for guiding successful projects and how you can incorporate them into your projects.
Learn how to:
• do things in the right order, saving you time, money and frustration
• focus everyone on the business objectives of the project
• tap into the creative energy of others for great project ideas
• write professional project documents that create value for your project
• make project estimates for minimum disappointment
• stop your project from ballooning out of control
• keep stakeholders on board with effective communications
• build quality into the project from the start
• get the most out of your project team whilst creating a satisfying experience
• receive valuable feedback and apply lessons to future projects
The Project Management Guide is packaged with a set of Microsoft Word reusable and customizable project management templates that you can start using today (40 pages).
Use them to:
• define and register your project
• plan and communicate your project details
• manage risks, issues and scope changes
• produce concise and professional-looking project reports
• conduct post-implementation reviews
Table of Contents:
Preface
1 Introduction 1
1.1 The Purpose of This Book 1
1.2 Project Management - What Is It? 1
1.3 Why Do Project Management? 2
1.4 When and How to Use Project Management? 2
1.5 The Life of a Project 3
2 Initiate 6
2.1 Doing First Things First 6
2.2 Paint the Picture and Tell the Story 6
2.3 Facilitated Kick-off Meeting 7
2.4 Organizing Tools 8
2.5 Finalizing the Initiate Phase 11
2.6 Project Prioritization, Initiation and Registration 11
3 Plan 13
3.1 Developing a Business Case 13
3.2 Writing the Business Case Document 14
3.3 Developing a Project Plan 16
3.4 Estimating for Projects 16
3.5 Scope Creep 19
4 Execute 20
4.1 Stages Within the Execute Phase 20
4.2 Variations Within the Execute Phase 25
4.3 Project Sizing 29
5 Evaluate 31
5.1 Measuring Project Performance 31
5.2 Project Success 32
5.3 Project Failure and Cessation 33
5.4 Post-Implementation Reviews 34
6 Governance 36
6.1 Objectives of Project Governance 36
6.2 Project Governance Model 36
6.3 Project Roles 37
7 Stakeholder Management 39
7.1 Managing Stakeholder Communications 39
7.2 Project Communication Strategy 39
7.3 Project Communication Plan 41
7.4 Observations Log 43
8 Risk Management 45
8.1 Risk Identification, Assessment and Planning 45
8.2 Risk Documentation 46
9 Issues Management 48
9.1 Issue Identification and Resolution 48
9.2 Issues Documentation 48
10 Resource and Task Management 50
10.1 Load Balancing 50
10.2 Gantt Charts 51
10.3 Critical Path Method (CPM) 52
10.4 Program and Evaluation Review Technique (PERT) 52
10.5 Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) 53
11 Project Change Control 54
11.1 Why Control Changes? 54
11.2 Change Assessment and Management 54
11.3 Change Control Process 55
11.4 Change Control Documentation 56
12 Document Control 59
12.1 Why Control Documents? 59
12.2 Managing Document Changes and Distribution 59
13 Quality Management 61
13.1 Why Manage Quality? 61
13.2 Quality Inspection Techniques 61
14 Project Teams 63
14.1 Working in Teams 63
14.2 Team Profiling 63
14.3 Team Ground Rules 64
15 Project Reporting 67
15.1 Why Report on Projects? 67
15.2 Project Reporting Framework 67
16 In Conclusion 71
17 List of Appendices 72
18 Appendix A - Project Definition Template 74
19 Appendix B - Project Registration Form 78
20 Appendix C - Project Plan Template 79
21 Appendix D - Observations Log Template 97
22 Appendix E - Risk Register Template 98
23 Appendix F - Issues Register Template 99
24 Appendix G - Change Control Register Template 100
25 Appendix H - Project Report Template 101
26 Appendix I - Stakeholder Feedback Survey Form 102
27 Appendix J - Project Team Feedback Survey Form 105
28 Appendix K - Meeting Agenda Form 109
29 Appendix L - Meeting Minutes Form 110
30 Appendix M - Project Management Glossary 111
31 Appendix N - Other Resources 116
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