Project Management Checklists For Dummies

ISBN-13: 9781118931431 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 320 str.

Nick (Inspirandum) Graham

Opis

Your must-have tool for perfect project management Want to take your career to the next level and be a master of planning, organising, motivating and controlling resources to meet your goals? This easy-to-use guide has you covered Project Management Checklists For Dummies takes the intimidation out of project management, and shows you step by step how to use rigorous self-check questions to save significant time--and headaches--in managing your projects effectively. Project Management Checklists For Dummies gives you to-do lists, hands-on checklists and helpful guidance for managing every phase of a project from start to finish. Before you know it, you'll be a star project manager as you organise, estimate and schedule projects in today's time-crunched, cost-conscious global business environment.

• Includes useful to-do lists and checklists to ensure all the necessary steps are completed
• Offers simple exercises to help clarify needs and requirements along the way
• Provides templates to complete, which can also be downloaded from Dummies.com and customised to suit your unique requirements
• Supplies hints and tips to help you along the way

If you're a project manager--or any professional charged with managing a project and wondering where to start--Project Management Checklists For Dummies is your ready-made tool for success.

Spis treści

Introduction 1

Part I: The Questions 7

Chapter 1: Getting Started with Algebra Basics 9

Chapter 2: Solving Some Equations and Inequalities 15

Chapter 3: Function Basics 21

Chapter 4: Graphing and Transforming Functions 29

Chapter 5: Polynomials 37

Chapter 6: Exponential and Logarithmic Functions 45

Chapter 7: Trigonometry Basics 53

Chapter 8: Graphing Trig Functions 61

Chapter 9: Getting Started with Trig Identities 67

Chapter 10: Continuing with Trig Identities 73

Chapter 11: Working with Triangles and Trigonometry 79

Chapter 12: Complex Numbers and Polar Coordinates 89

Chapter 13: Conic Sections 97

Chapter 14: Systems of Equations and Inequalities 103

Chapter 15: Sequences and Series 111

Chapter 16: Introducing Limits and Continuity 117

Part II: The Answers 125

Chapter 17: Answers 127

Index

O autorze

Nick Graham founded the consultancy and training company, Inspirandum Ltd and is a member of the Association for Project Management and of the Institute of Directors. This is his fourth For Dummies book.

Blurb

Learn to:

• Develop projects with confidence
• Use checklists and self–check questions to save time in your projects
• Make sure all key actions and steps are carried out
• Complete vital project documents (with handy templates)

Your ready–made tool for project management success

Want to become a master of planning, organising, motivating and controlling resources to meet your goals? Packed with handy checklists, this easy–to–use guide takes the pain out of project management, showing you step by step how to use rigorous self–check questions to save significant time and headaches in managing your projects effectively.

• Got projects? Check! get expert guidance and find out how to use checklists in line with best practices and the ISO standard
• Sketch it out get lots of checklists that will help you think a project through, from identifying the benefits and justification of the potential project to who should do what if the project goes ahead
• It s a plan use handy checklists and templates to develop the range of plans you ll need in your project: resource, risk, quality, communications, stakeholder and procurement
• Be in control discover helpful checklists for keeping control of your project through every stage of its lifecycle
• Master the miscellany take over someone else s project partway through or audit someone else s project with ease and confidence

Open the book and find:

• How to use checklists and templates in projects
• The best way to kick off a project
• Checklists and templates for planning
• The importance of roles and responsibilities
• Time–tested project management techniques worth knowing
• Ten convincing reasons to use a method