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ePub A Survival Guide for Project Managers download
Author:
Dr. Jim Taylor
ISBN13:
978-0814408773
ISBN:
081440877X
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Publisher:
AMACOM; 2nd edition (May 5, 2006)
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Subcategory:
Management & Leadership
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1267 kb
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Rating:
4.5
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"Jim Taylor has provided the working project manager with an invaluable tool kit for effectiveness in challenging work environments. - Thomas S. Myerchin, National Director of Education Department of the Treasury, Internal Revenue Service. "This book provides a refreshingly lively and personal presentation of what could be a dull topic.

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Jim Taylor is an internationally recognized authority on the psychology of sport and parenting. His professional expertise encompasses sport psychology, child development and parenting, and coaches education. Dr. Taylor has worked with professional, world-class, collegiate, and junior-elite athletes in tennis, skiing, cycling, triathlon, track and field, swimming, football, golf, baseball, car racing, and many other sports. He is the author of 15 books and has been an invited speaker throughout North and South America, Europe, and the Middle East.

While the technical side of project management is important, it's often "people problems" that derail even the most meticulously planned of projects

While the technical side of project management is important, it's often "people problems" that derail even the most meticulously planned of projects. A Survival Guide for Project Managers gives you a complete understanding of what it takes to successfully finish a project, giving you not only valuable tools like Work Breakdown Schedule, Gantt Charts, and Network Analysis, but also tools to communicate, negotiate, listen, and lead.

Автор: Taylor Название: A survival guide for project managers Издательство: McGraw-Hill Классификация .

It presents practical techniques for managing a variety of projects from simple presentations to consumer web sites and applications (e-commerce).

James Taylor's A survival guide for project managers, investigates the various human. and technical tools and skills needed for project management and how to apply them in the. project life cycle. The book is divided into two vast parts each containing seven chapters

James Taylor's A survival guide for project managers, investigates the various human. The book is divided into two vast parts each containing seven chapters. In the. first part of the book, the author evaluates human skills and technical tools project management. Further, under human skills, the book explores four major areas per chapter which include. project management skills, communication skills, negotiation skills, and leadership skills.

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Maybe you’re a technical project manager who has fifteen AI patents to your name, an MBA with a concentration in marketing, and you build tiny homes for the homeless in your free time. Kudos and a virtual high five. You’re a corporate recruiter’s dream. How is he able to consistently grow his business from referrals and word-of mouth while many other contractors have to constantly chase new business?

While the technical side of project management is important, it's often "people problems" that derail even the most meticulously planned of projects. A Survival Guide for Project Managers gives you a complete understanding of what it takes to successfully finish a project, giving you not only valuable tools like Work Breakdown Schedule, Gantt Charts, and Network Analysis, but also tools to communicate, negotiate, listen, and lead. This practical, user-friendly guide walks you through the entire project life cycle, and shows you how to: * Develop the managerial and business skills required of a project manager. * Resolve conflicts and improve negotiation capabilities. * Understand and apply the technical tools of project management. * Establish project teams, and foster collaboration among team members, and more. Now in its second edition, the book has been revised to reflect the latest version of the PMBOK® Guide, and includes new material on topics including project risk, cost-schedule index, the project management office, and emotional intelligence as it applies to project management. Packed with useful forms, charts, and other tools, this is the ultimate resource for project managers.
  • The review for this book is for a busy individual that needs educational guidance and it will work if you heed it's advice.

  • When I am asked to recommend a good book on project management I always recommend Visualizing Project Management by Forsberg, Cotterman and Mooz. That book teaches project management the right way, in my opinion, by laying a solid foundation. However, at some point you will master the material through application and experience, and you'll want to go to the next level. That is where this excellent book will take you.
    As you mature as a project manager you eventually discover that the technical aspects are a great foundation, but the 'soft skills' are essential to success. The book starts with these. The author provides some excellent material on how to make effective oral and written presentations, negotiation skills and leadership.
    Don't get the impression that this book does not cover technical material. It does, and it goes pretty deep into some advanced techniques. For example, the author provides a very comprehensive discussion of work breakdown structures (WBS) and how to develop them. In my opinion the biggest failure of projects is the fact that a WBS is never developed before the estimating and scheduling is performed. I really liked the network analysis chapter. It presented in clear prose how to risk-adjust a critical path, which is something I learned over a decade ago, but am met with blank stares when I mention this to most project manager. Indeed, most project managers don't know what a critical path is (they use the term often enough, they just don't know what it means), much less how to perform a critical path analysis. This book will provide this information and a few easy-to-learn techniques as well. I thought that the chapter on earned value was adequate. I was glad to see it included in the book and give the author credit for his comprehensive treatment, but I almost fell asleep here. I recommend that serious project managers augment the earned value knowledge in this book with Earned Value Project Management, 2nd Edition by Quentin Fleming and Joel Koppleman. That book was written by authors who developed the 32 earned value criteria for the Project Management Body of Knowledge (2000 version).
    The part of the book that covers managing a project is filled with great advice. I thought the chapter on project selection was particularly valuable because it is objective and based on financial formulae that should be applied to these kinds of decisions. The sample reports are also good templates that should be in every project manager's tool kit.
    Overall, this book will give a seasoned project manager much sound advice and provide him or her with an array of advanced techniques. It is truly a project manager's survival guide earning it a solid five stars and a place on the list of the handful of books that I always recommend.

  • This book is exactly what I was looking for. I took a Project Management Course back in College, but did not remember much of it. I needed a book that would give the basics of this subject, without being too involved in particular software.
    This book does exactly that, and also lists some of the most frequent pitfalls for projects, with half the book emphasizing the human side of Project Management.

  • I've only just started using this book, but so far I've found it a great resource. It doesn't go into a huge amount of detail about the technical tools to use when managing a project, but it does tell you what to use and when. However the sections on managing resources, communications and negotiating are a great addition and just as important as knowing what technical tools to use.