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Teach Yourself Project Management
Edition: 1st
Author(s): Baguley, Philip
ISBN10:  0658000780
ISBN13:  9780658000782
Format:  Paperback
Pub. Date:  3/1/2000
Publisher(s): McGraw-Hill

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SummaryTable of Contents
Teach Yourself Project Management is a practical introduction to the craft of project management. With diagrams, useful ideas, appropriate methods, check lists, and tools, it explains and illustrates the what, why, when, and how of this form of management. The ultimate guide for all who wish to develop the shills of effective project management. The book shows you how to:
  • manage, plan and organize your project from start to finish
  • create an effective project team estimate and manage your project budgets
  • solve problems, and monitor and control the activities of your project
Phil Baguley is an experienced business writer and lecturer. He has held senior management roles in multinational corporations and worked as a management consultant.
Introduction 1(2)
Projects, projects and projects
3(14)
Projects old and new
3(1)
Projects now
4(1)
How and why
4(2)
Big or small
6(1)
Concrete or ideas
7(1)
Work and play
7(1)
The Five Fundamentals
8(2)
Definitions
10(1)
The project boundaries
11(2)
The project life cycle
13(2)
Project priorities
15(1)
Projects and people
15(1)
Summary
16(1)
Which project?
17(13)
Choice
17(1)
Uncertainty and risk
18(1)
Identify the risk
19(1)
Reducing the risk
20(2)
Yes or No
22(1)
Choosing
22(1)
Choosing without numbers
23(3)
Choosing by numbers
26(3)
Summary
29(1)
Your project organization
30(16)
Organizing
30(1)
Organizations
31(1)
Structures, leaders and people
32(1)
Projects and organizations -- the differences
33(1)
What sort of project organization?
34(1)
Project aspects
35(1)
Project organizations
36(3)
The Integrated project organization
36(1)
The Stand Alone project organization
37(1)
The Matrix project organization
38(1)
Your project organization
39(2)
Project procedures and specifications
41(4)
Summary
45(1)
Plans for your project
46(19)
Planning -- now or never
46(1)
Projects and planning
47(3)
Interdependency
50(2)
Bars and charts
52(4)
Networks
56(5)
Resources
61(1)
Activity slack
61(1)
What did we do last time?
62(1)
Project planning with computers
62(2)
Summary
64(1)
Managing your project
65(13)
Management
65(1)
Managing projects vs day-to-day management
66(1)
Projects and managers
67(1)
Leaders and leadership
68(3)
Project managers and communication
71(1)
Project communications
71(1)
Project managers and negotiation
72(1)
Negotiating and bargaining
73(1)
Ways and means
74(1)
Project managers and motivation
75(2)
Summary
77(1)
Your project team
78(14)
Why teams?
78(1)
What is a team?
79(1)
Good teams and bad teams
80(1)
How many
81(1)
Who -- and Why
82(2)
The Team Charter
84(1)
Team building
85(2)
Project teams
87(3)
Summary
90(2)
Managing your project money
92(12)
Money, money and money
92(1)
Cost, cost and more cost
92(1)
Hunches, guesstimates and estimates
93(2)
Information, data, facts and figures
95(2)
Top-down or bottom-up
97(1)
Top-down
97(2)
Bottom-up
99(1)
Below and above the line
100(1)
Budgets
101(2)
Summary
103(1)
Monitoring and controlling your project
104(15)
Full steam ahead
104(1)
Monitoring
105(1)
Project monitoring -- what and when
106(2)
The project plan and monitoring
108(1)
Milestones
109(1)
Limits
109(1)
ABC analysis
110(1)
The project budget and monitoring
111(1)
Earned value
112(2)
Monitoring -- reports and meetings
114(1)
Controlling
115(2)
Summary
117(2)
Solving your project problems
119(14)
Problems, problems and problems
119(1)
A perfect world
120(1)
Frequency and consequence
120(1)
Logic or intuition
121(1)
A Nominal Group
122(1)
Force Field analysis
123(1)
The Ishikawa diagram
124(2)
Pareto analysis
126(4)
CUSUM technique
130(2)
Summary
132(1)
Closing your project
133(11)
Endings
133(1)
Closure and the project manager
134(1)
The closure process
135(1)
Closing the team
136(1)
Closing the project data banks
137(1)
Activity completion
138(1)
Project outcomes
139(1)
Project histories
140(1)
Project audits
141(1)
Post-project appraisals
142(1)
Summary
143(1)
Key issues for project management
144(8)
Key issues
144(5)
Conclusion
149(3)
Glossary 152(5)
Further information 157(1)
Books 157(2)
Professional associations 159(2)
Some useful web sites 161(1)
Index 162

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