Stanley E. Portny - Project Management All-in-One For Dummies

Project Management All-in-One For Dummies

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ISBN 978-1-119-70026-5 (pbk); ISBN 978-1-119-70027-2 (ebk); ISBN 978-1-119-70028-9 (ebk)

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4. Book 4 Chapter 1
5. Book 4 Chapter 3
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7. Book 7 Chapter 2

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2. Book 1 Chapter 2
3. Book 1 Chapter 3
4. Book 2 Chapter 1
5. Book 2 Chapter 2
6. Book 2 Chapter 3
7. Book 3 Chapter 3
8. Book 3 Chapter 4
9. Book 4 Chapter 1
10. Book 4 Chapter 2
11. Book 4 Chapter 3
12. Book 4 Chapter 4
13. Book 4 Chapter 5
14. Book 5 Chapter 1
15. Book 5 Chapter 2
16. Book 5 Chapter 3
17. Book 5 Chapter 4
18. Book 5 Chapter 5
19. Book 5 Chapter 6
20. Book 6 Chapter 1
21. Book 6 Chapter 2
22. Book 6 Chapter 3
23. Book 6 Chapter 4
24. Book 7 Chapter 2

No matter where you work or what you do, chances are you need to start, plan, execute, monitor, and complete projects smoothly. Project Management All-in-One For Dummies is your guide to effectively developing and using the skills you need.

Project Management All-in-One For Dummies helps you acquire and cultivate some of the most important attributes needed for carrying out successful projects. Here, you get pointers on starting, planning, controlling, and finishing projects; using checklists and software to help you work; trying popular new project management methods like agile and scrum; and preparing for Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.

A quick note: Sidebars (shaded boxes of text) dig into the details of a given topic, but they arent crucial to understanding it. Feel free to read them or skip them. You can pass over the text accompanied by the Technical Stuff icon, too. The text marked with this icon gives some interesting but nonessential information about increasing influence.

One last thing: Within this book, you may note that some web addresses break across two lines of text. If youre reading this book in print and want to visit one of these web pages, simply key in the web address exactly as its noted in the text, pretending as though the line break doesnt exist. If youre reading this as an e-book, youve got it easy just click the web address to be taken directly to the web page.

Here are some assumptions about you, dear reader, and why youre picking up this book:

• Youre an experienced project manager who wants to take your skills to new heights.
• Youre new to project management and youve never been on a project team, but youre eager to find out more.
• Youre interested in finding out about different tools you can use to manage projects.
• Youre curious about different types of project management methods, such as agile, scrum, and enterprise agility.
• You want to brush up on some basics as you prepare for the PMP exam.

Like all For Dummies books, this book features icons to help you navigate the information. Heres what they mean.

If you take away anything from this book, it should be the information marked with this icon.

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This icon highlights especially helpful advice about developing and using project management skills.

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In addition to the material in the print or e-book youre reading right now, this product comes with some access-anywhere goodies on the web. Check out the free Cheat Sheet for info on the phases of a project life cycle, project management processes, and a project managers basic tasks. To get this Cheat Sheet, simply go to