Project Management Essentials You Always Wanted To Know by Vibrant Publishers

Project Management Essentials You Always Wanted To Know by Vibrant Publishers

• Includes Chapter Summaries and Solutions to Practice Exercises
• Simplified Project Management concepts
• Practical approaches that can be applied to projects
• Best Practices used in contemporary projects
• Project Management Templates

As employees first move towards management, they typically take on management of critical projects. Project Management Essentials You Always Wanted To Know: 4th Edition provides the core information about how to manage the complexity of modern projects. This comprehensive yet compact project management book includes topics such as:

• Overview of project management
• Project Initiation - Constraints, Stakeholders, PMO, Life Cycles
• Project Planning - WBS, PERT/CPM, Budgeting, Risk
• Project Execution - Audits, HR, Communications
• Project Monitoring & Controlling - Tracking, Quality Control, Change Control
• Project Closure

After the reader has mastered the concepts in this book, he or she will be able to complete projects faster, optimize the workload, plan and execute projects successfully, and handle the different responsibilities of the workflow easily.

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