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Successful Project Management - Business Skills Series

Applying Best Practices and Real-World Techniques with MS Project

Learn best practices and proven methods from project management professionals - and apply these skills as you work with Microsoft® Project. In this practical guide, project management expert Bonnie Biafore shows you how to manage projects efficiently and effectively, sharing the real-world experiences of project managers in several industries. You´ll learn how to put the best practices and hard-won lessons of experts to work on your critical projects.

Sharpen the skills you need to manage projects expertly - from start to finish

• Communicate effectively with project stakeholders, management, and team members
• Apply methods to break down the project into small, manageable pieces
• Define work assignments, choose resources, and build project schedules
• Accurately estimate project costs and work with a budget
• Identify project changes and manage risks
• Track progress and balance priorities without sacrificing quality
• Document project history and lessons learned to help improve future projects

The Table of Contents

Getting a Project Started

• Meet Project Management
• Obtaining Approval for a Project

Planning a Project

• Planning to Achieve Success
• Building a Work Breakdown Structure
• Project Resources
• Building a Project Schedule
• Working with a Budget

Carrying Out a Project

• Executing the Project Plan
• Evaluating Project Performance
• Managing Project Resources
• Communicating Information

Controlling Projects

• Managing Project Changes
• Modifying the Project Schedule
• Balancing the Budget and Other Project Variables
• Managing Risk

Closing Projects

• Learning Lessons
• Closing a Project
• Archiving Historical Information

Beyond Projects

• Selecting and Prioritizing Projects
• Other Project Management Approaches

About the Author Bonnie Biafore:

Bonnie Biafore has always been a zealous planner, whether setting up software demos, cooking gourmet meals, or scheduling a vacation to test the waters of spontaneity. Ironically, fate, not planning, turned this obsession into a career as a project manager. When she isn´t managing projects for clients, Bonnie writes about project management, small business accounting, personal finance, investing, and technology. She´s also branching out into other "dry" topics with articles for the Wine Enthusiast. As an engineer, she´s fascinated by how things work and how to make things work better. She has a knack for mincing dry subjects like accounting and project management into easy to understand morsels and then spices them to perfection with her warped sense of humor.

Bonnie is the award-wining author of more than a dozen books including Quicken 2009: The Missing Manual, QuickBooks 2009: The Missing Manual, Project 2007: The Missing Manual, the Better Investing Stock Selection Handbook (which won an APEX Award of Distinction), Online Investing Hacks, and On Time! On Track! On Target!. She also writes regularly about financial topics for Better Investing bankrate.com and interest.com. When unshackled from her computer, she hikes in the mountains, cycles, rehabilitates horses, cooks gourmet food, and, most importantly, tries saying no to additional work assignments.