Bonnie Biafore - Successful Project Management: Applying Best Practices and Real-World Techniques with Microsoft Project: Applying Best Practices, Proven Methods, and Real-World Techniques with Microsoft Project

Copyright 2011 Bonnie Biafore

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Acquisitions and Development Editor: Kenyon Brown
Production Editor: Teresa Elsey
Editorial Production: Octal Publishing, Inc.
Technical Reviewer: Ciprian Adrian Rusen
Illustrator: Robert Romano
Indexer: Angela Howard
Cover: Karen Montgomery
Composition: Nellie McKesson

Publishing a book is a project, and for Successful Project Management , I was fortunate to work with a team that has the can-do attitude that every project manager dreams of.

My thanks go to Kenyon Brown, the acquisitions and project editor, who shepherded the manuscript through several iterations; Nancy Sixsmith, the copy editor; Sumita Mukherji, the production manager; and Angela Howard, the indexer, for polishing the manuscript to the pages youre reading now.

I also want to thank the reviewers who made sure that I was clear; provided useful information; and, most important, didnt make things up. For sharing his uncanny project management sense as well as his sense of humor, I thank my friend, Bob McGannon. I also thank Ciprian Rusen for his thorough technical review and valuable suggestions.

In this edition of the book, I have included best practices generously offered by project managers from a variety of industries. I learned a lot from their experiences and suggestions, and, even better, have made some new friends. I would like to introduce you to these contributors:

Max Dufour is a principal with SunGard Global Services. He has been managing global projects for more than 10 years with a focus on strategy formulation, operational effectiveness, risk management, and corporate social responsibility. He holds an MBA from Duke University, has a BA from Northeastern University, and is a PMP.

Jeff Furman ( www.jeff-furman.com ) has 15 years experience as an IT project manager and is author of The Project Management Answer Book (Management Concepts, 2011). He teaches PMP prep and Train-the-Trainer courses for the Microsoft Certified Trainer and CompTIA CTT+ certifications.

Tres Roeder is founder and president of Roeder Consulting, a company that offers A Sixth Sense for Project Management, a system for helping people work through change. The company clients include several Fortune 500 companies. Tres regularly presents at Project Management Institute meetings.

Dr. Robyn Odegaard is the president/owner of Champion Performance Development ( http://champperformance.com ). Robyn speaks nationally on team-building and leadership. She regularly consults with leaders to create and maintain high-performing teams in business and athletics.

Joann Perahia is a business systems facilitator specializing in the requirements analysis and data defining phases of application development. She has saved corporations millions of dollars in software development using her facilitating skills. Joann is currently the Vice-President of Sales and Marketing at Systemic Solutions, while managing her twins acting careers.

Niloufer Tamboly, CPA, is a vice president of and project manager for Open Information Systems Security Group (www.oissg.org). She uncovers simple and profitable solutions for her clients and streamlines processes and workable solutions in business, finance, and technology areas of organizations.

Ron Taylor, PMP, is a project manager, lecturer, author, and consultant. He is the principal and founder of the Ron Taylor Group and past president of PMIs Washington D.C. chapter. During Rons tenure as president, the chapter was named PMI Chapter of the Year, and Ron was named PMIs Leader of the Year. Ron is a contributing author with PMForum, Adjunct Professor of Management at George Mason University, and coauthor of 77 Deadly Sins of Project Management and author of Nurturing Trust . His latest book on leadership will be published in 2011. Ron has an MBA from the University of Kentucky.

Dr. Arthur P. Thomas, Assistant Professor of Practice and Professor of Record for the Project Management Curriculum, has taught in Syracuse Universitys School of Information Studies since 2001. Dr. Thomass career has included IT positions from programmer to chief information officer (CIO) and corporate training positions from training specialist to chief learning officer (CLO). Art is also Chairman and CEO of Counterpoint Holdings LLC, a performance improvement consultancy.