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10 Minute Guide to Project Management

Introduction

Acknowledgments

Lesson 1. So You're Going to Manage a Project?

The Elements of a Project

Project Planning

Implementation

Control

Possible Project Players

Lesson 2. What Makes a Good Project Manager?

A Doer, not a Bystander

Many Hats All the Time

Principles To Steer You

Seven Ways to Succeed as a Project Manager

Seven Ways to Fail as a Project Manager

Lesson 3. What Do You Want to Accomplish?

To Lead and to Handle Crises

Key Questions

Okay, So What are We Attempting to Do?

Tasks Versus Outcomes

Telling Questions

Desired Outcomes that Lend Themselves to Project Management

Lesson 4. Laying Out Your Plan

No Surprises

The Holy Grail and the Golden Fleece

From Nothing to Something

Lesson 5. Assembling Your Plan

The Critical Path for Completing the WBS

The Chicken or the Egg?

Is Planning Itself a Task?

What About Your Hours?

Internal Resources Versus External Resources

Helping Your Staff When It's Over

What Kinds of Tasks Comprise the WBS?

Keeping the Big Picture in Mind

The Big Picture Versus Endless Minutia

From Planning to Monitoring

Lesson 6. Keeping Your Eye on the Budget

Money Still Doesn't Grow on Trees

Experience Pays

Traditional Approaches to Budgeting

Traditional Measures

Systematic Budgeting Problems

Lesson 7. Gantt Charts

Chart Your Progress

Variations on a Theme

Embellishments Offer Detail

Getting a Project Back on Track

Thinking Ahead

Lesson 8. PERT/CPM Charts

Projects Can Get Complex

Enter the PERT and CPM

A Short Course

What If Things Change?

I Feel the Need, the Need for Speed

Let's Network

Me and My Arrow

Don't Fall in Love with the Technology

Lesson 9. Reporting Results

More Communications Channels Lead to Less Accessibility

Incorporate the Thoughts of Others

Lesson 10. Choosing Project Management Software

With the Click of a Mouse

Leave a Good Thing Alone

Whose Choice Is It?

What's Your Pleasure?

Dedicated PM Software

How Will You Use PM Software?

Lesson 11. A Sampling of Popular Programs

Yesterday's News

Armed and Online

Lesson 12. Multiple Bosses, Multiple Projects, Multiple Headaches

Participating on More Than One Project at a Time

Complexity Happens

A Diffuse Pattern

A Tale of Two Offices

Extravagance is Not Necessary

Reporting to More Than One Boss at a Time

Workaholic For Hire

Lesson 13. A Construction Mini-Case

Helping Construction Site Managers to Be More Effective

Let's Assign It to a Project Manager

Arm Chair Analysis Versus Onsite Observation

Tower of Babel