Managing Projects

Expert Solutions to Everyday Challenges

Buch | Softcover

100 Seiten

2006
Harvard Business Review Press (Verlag)
978-1-4221-0187-2 (ISBN)

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When a new project is handed to them, readers can use this guide to help juggle the gamut of tasks required to get the job done. The handy tools and checklists offer guidance on how to: * Identify necessary resources * Develop schedules and set deadlines * Set and monitor budgets * Communicate progress and problems

"Managing Projects" provides proven strategies for making sure any size task achieve its goal - on time and on budget. Covering the gamut of tasks involved in managing any project, this portable guide develops ideas about planning, team building, motivation, mid-course assessment and correction, and after-project review. It helps managers determine whether and how to make the critical tradeoffs between time, cost, and quality that are the essence of project management. Managers at any level can use this portable guide to become more efficient and effective multi-taskers. It instructs readers how to: scope out a project and identify resources needed; develop schedules and set deadlines; monitor budgets and keep projects on track; communicate progress and problems to stakeholders; and, overcome some typical project snags.

Mary Grace Duffy, Ed.D, is a founding partner of Cambridge Hill Partners, Inc, as well as an adjunct faculty member of the Harvard University Extension School and Simmons Graduate School of Management.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.4.2006
Reihe/Serie	Pocket Mentor Series
Mitarbeit	Zusammenstellung: Harvard Business Review
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations
Sprache	englisch
Maße	127 x 177 mm
Gewicht	124 g
Themenwelt	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Projektmanagement
ISBN-10	1-4221-0187-8 / 1422101878
ISBN-13	978-1-4221-0187-2 / 9781422101872
Zustand	Neuware