Project Management Toolkit: The Basics for Project Success: Expert Skills for Success in Engineering, Technical, Process Industry and Corporate Projects - Softcover

Melton, Dr. Trish

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0750684402 ISBN 13: 9780750684408

Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann, 2007

Synopsis

This book provides you with the tools required to approach and manage projects. These effective skills will impact positively on the success of both the projects you are involved with and of your organization. Key features * A practical handbook for both career project managers and those involved intermittently with projects throughout their career * Provides simple step-by-step tools for understanding and managing each of the project value-add stages: - Developing a business case - Robust planning - Staying in control - Delivering benefits * Focussed on the needs of engineering and other technical project managers, but generic enough to support projects in other areas * Brief and visually led, the Toolkit is designed to get you up and running fast and to increase the certainty of a positive project outcome from day one * Comprehensive real world case studies demonstrate the use of tools * Supported by downloadable online project planning templates that enable the techniques developed in the book to be applied in practice Project Management Toolkit introduces the whole project life-cycle. It is the first of four project management titles that separately build skills in critical PM areas and together provide a powerful project management resource.

About this title

About the Author

Director of MIME Solutions Ltd, a UK-based PM Consultancy. She has worked for organizations including AstraZeneca, GSK, and Eli Lilly, and has clients in the UK and US.

Edition details

• Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0750684402
• ISBN 13: 9780750684408
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 304