Project Management for Mere Mortals: The Tools, Techniques, Teaming, and Politics of Project Management

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For anyone who wants to master project management–from
novices to experienced PMs who want to successfully run more complex projects.

 
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changing programming technologies? Want expert help, but don’t have the time
or energy to read a book? Can’t find classroom training worth the money?
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the world’s leading technology experts.

LiveLessons are three-to-four hour video courses, on DVD with a
book supplement, that are organized into bite-sized, self-contained
lessons–you’ll learn key skills in as little as fifteen minutes!
Each lesson begins with well-defined learning objectives and ends with
comprehensive summaries, which help you track your progress.
Follow along as your instructor shows how to get results in today’s top
development environments.
In this LiveLesson–which contains 7+ hours of hands-on
video training–top project management trainer Claudia Baca makes real-world
project management simpler and easier than ever before.
 
Project Management for Mere Mortals®
is a comprehensive video training course that teaches key techniques, using a
live case study that covers all five process groups of project management:
initiation, planning, execution, monitoring/controlling, and closing.
 
Learn at your own pace and get practical, common-sense
help with scoping, scheduling, budgeting, organizing work, building teams,
setting quality goals, identifying risks, coping with politics, controlling
changes, baselining, ending projects, and much more!
Table of Contents

 Preface v
About the Author ix
Session 1: Setting the Project Management
Context 1
Session 2: You’ve Been Assigned a Project!
5
Session 3: How Big Is This Project?
9
Session 4: Creating Product Requirements
13
Session 5: Laying Out the Work 17
Session 6: The Art of Estimating 23
Session 7: Quality—How Good Does It Have to Be?
37
Session 8: Communication—What Do You Think about
My Project? 45
Session 9: Risk—What Should You Worry About?
63
Session 10: Creating the Schedule 71
Session 11: Budgeting—How Much? 81
Session 12: The Rhythm of Project Execution
87
Session 13: Keeping the Project on Track
89
Session 14: Controlling Changes 91
Session 15: Success!—Closing the Project
97
Session 16: Building Effective Teams
101
Session 17: Working Project Politics
103