Product Description

People responsible for managing projects are busy. And their jobs are made more difficult by time pressures, project complexity, and a lack of resources. Their ability to execute a project efficiently and well, especially in unexpected or new situations, is compromised. But it needn't be.

The Project Management Tool Kit presents proven project management techniques in an accessible, easy-to-apply format. Based on the approaches used by successful project managers in many fields, the Tool Kit offers step-by-step methodologies for managing every conceivable project step. Professionals at all levels will get the latest on:

* cost estimating and budgeting * communications and technology * goals for individuals and project teams * negotiation and decision making * establishing and retaining management support * implementing change and process improvement * quality assurance and control * risk assessment and management * scheduling and time management * and more -- 100 subject areas in all!

Complete with checklists and other tools for quick implementation, here is a practical and complete guide to mastering any project challenge.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #466723 in Books
• Published on: 2004-04
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

Review

“This book is a great, quick, easy-to-get-to, no-nonsense refresher.”

— Quality Progress

“…a good reference for experienced, as well as novice project professionals. It is written in a clear and concise style, which makes it refreshing to open and read any chapter at any time.”

— Cost Engineering

From the Back Cover

If you’re a project manager, you know about the permanent crunch caused by limited time, scarce resources, and the sheer intricacy of many projects. The Project Management Tool Kit, Second Edition, supplies the clear, concise information you need to get complex projects done—on time, on budget, and with stellar results.

Completely updated throughout, The Project Management Tool Kit, Second Edition, addresses 100 specific project challenges, including all of the processes identified in A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK®Guide). But unlike the PMBOK Guide,® which focuses on what to do, this accessible book delivers step-by-step “how-to” guidance for professionals at all levels on essential topics such as:

Sponsorship

Stakeholder expectation management

Stakeholder identification

Requirements collection

Inheriting a project

Forecasting project completion

Project metric selection

Project metric implementation

Project life cycles

Complete with checklists and tools for quick implementation, this practical, on-the-job resource will help project managers in any industry master any project challenge.

Tom Kendrick, PMP, is a senior project manager for Visa Inc. He regularly speaks at conferences, associations, and universities, and is the author of Results Without Authority and Identifying and Managing Project Risk. His 35 years of project management experience include 20 years with Hewlett Packard, as well as work for DuPont, General Electric, and as an independent consultant. He holds electrical engineering degrees from Princeton and the University of Pennsylvania, and an MBA from the Wharton School.

About the Author
Tom Kendrick (San Carlos, CA) is currently a program manager with Hewlett-Packard. He has nearly 30 years of project management experience, 12 of which were spent with the HP Project Management Initiative. He is the author of Identifying and Managing Project Risk.

Customer Reviews

A Reference Book, Not Tool Kit
This is a reference book based on PMBOK, with very concise summaries of project management processes. For example, the Project Charter is covered in two pages. It is not for novice project leaders as the book states. There are no examples or templates to show you how you can prepare your documents.

good practical techniques that really work
This book provides a great overview on proven techniques and approaches that really work. This is exactly what project managers are looking for after reading the PMBOK®! It shows the "how to ..." which is missing in the PMBOK®. The tools are easy to grasp, and the approach goes far beyond the pure technical and methodological stuff to the human side--which is the essential part in most projects

Quick and Concise.
Excellent reference tool! Having practiced PM for over 20 years I know that, due to projects' unique elements, no project manager uses all their skills and tools all the time. This book is great to have to go to for a quick, easy to get to, no-nonsense refresher for those skills that may be a little rusty.