Managing Projects in the Real World: The Tips and Tricks No One Tells You About When You Start - Softcover

McBride, Melanie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1430265116 ISBN 13: 9781430265115

Publisher: Apress, 2013

Synopsis

Managing Projects in the Real World: The Tips and Tricks No One Tells You About When You Start Managing Projects in the Real World provides clear and actionable advice to project managers for recognizing, anticipating, and overcoming challenges associated with the human component of leading others. The mechanics of project management are rational and straightforward to learn. The art of project management is irrational and complex to learn. Project managers need to develop a repertoire of soft skills that are typically hard for them, since they rose through the ranks to that position by virtue of superior reasoning skills. But if a project manager cannot adjudicate the clash of personalities, finesse the friction between assigned and preferred roles, ...

About this title

About the Author:

Melanie McBride, PMP, is a Technical Project Manager at Intel Corporation. With over 15 years’ experience managing projects in the semiconductor industry, she has worked variously as product development project manager, operations project manager, and vendor development manager. McBride is a recognized subject matter expert at Intel, where she writes a weekly blog on project management best practices. She speaks regularly at such professional conferences as PMI’s Global Congress. She holds an MS in physics from Texas Tech University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Apress
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1430265116
• ISBN 13: 9781430265115
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 267