Gregory M Horine (Indianapolis, IN) is a PMP/CCP-certified business technology and IT project management professional who has achieved nineteen years of successful results across multiple industries through the use of servant leadership principles. His primary areas of expertise and strength include project management and leadership; complex application development; enterprise solution development; business process analysis and improvement; data analysis and transformation; package implementation and integration; vendor and procurement management; regulatory and process compliance; and the effective use of project management tools. He is co-author of PMP Exam Cram 2.
Introduction | p. 1 |
About This Book | p. 1 |
Who Should Read This Book? | p. 3 |
How This Book Is Organized | p. 3 |
Conventions Used in This Book | p. 4 |
Project Management Jumpstart | p. 5 |
Project Management Overview | p. 7 |
What Is Project Managementhellip;Exactly? | p. 8 |
What Is the Value of Project Management? | p. 12 |
Why Are Projects Challenging? | p. 13 |
Growing Demand for Effective Project Managers? | p. 15 |
Trends in Project Management | p. 16 |
The Project Manager | p. 21 |
One Title, Many Roles | p. 22 |
Key Skills of Project Managers | p. 23 |
Qualities of Successful Project Managers | p. 25 |
15 Common Mistakes of Project Managers 27 | |
Essential Elements for Any Successful Project | p. 29 |
What Exactly Is a ldquo;Successfulrdquo; Project? | p. 30 |
Learning from Troubled Projects | p. 31 |
Learning from Successful Projects | p. 34 |
Essential Project Manager Toolkit | p. 36 |
Project Planning | p. 41 |
Defining a Project | p. 43 |
Setting the Stage for Success | p. 44 |
How Does Defining a Project Relate to Project Planning? | p. 44 |
Project Definition Document | p. 45 |
Project Definition Checklist | p. 49 |
Planning a Project | p. 55 |
Key Project Planning Principles | p. 56 |
Important Questions Project Planning Should Answer | p. 58 |
Building a Project Plan | p. 59 |
Summary of Supplemental Project Plan Components | p. 66 |
Project Plan Checklist | p. 69 |
Developing the Work Breakdown Structure | p. 71 |
What Is a WBS Exactly? | p. 72 |
Why Is the WBS Important? | p. 78 |
The Process of Building a WBS | p. 79 |
Estimating the Work | p. 85 |
Next Step in the Schedule Development Process | p. 86 |
Managing the Risk, Managing the Estimates | p. 88 |
Reasons for Estimating Woes | p. 88 |
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