Move step-by-step through proven solutions guaranteed to keep all your projects on track. The Project ManagerÆs Desk Reference, Second Edition, by James P. Lewis, gives you a template for managing projects of any size from start to finish, a 16-step process for planning, monitoring, and controlling any project. As you explore specific situations taken from today's fast-moving business environment, the author's easy-to-understand approach shows you how to confidently put together a project plan using Work Breakdown Structures, PERT, CPM, and Gantt schedules. You learn how to conduct risk analysis, and assemble and manage a problem-solving team to eliminate potential stumbling blocks and complete the project on time and within budget. In the second edition of this hands-on toolbox, you get updated examples, illustrations and figures, checklists for every stage, plus lists of associations and powerful websites.

The Project Manager's Desk Reference

Business & Money

Lewis, James P.

Management & Leadership

McGraw=Hill

Unique among project management books, Project Planning, Scheduling &amp; Control is renowned for its applications-oriented, non-theoretical understanding of the flexibility required in day-to-day management situations. New material in this long-awaited third edition includes easy-to-follow guidelines for managing multiple projects, effective risk management strategies, an innovative blueprint for developing a workable project methodology, and more.

Project Planning, Scheduling & Control, 3rd Edition

The Boeing 777 development program is one of the most stirring, successful teamwork projects of the past half century. The commitment and ultimate success of the project teamand the principles that have allowed Boeing and other global corporations to plan, execute, and maintain remarkable project successare chronicled for the first time in Working Together. Detailing 12 keys to successful project management as espoused by Boeing's project management guru Alan Mulally, the book offers clear, easy-to-understand guidance for any type of project, in any organization.

Working Together: 12 Principles for Achieving Excellence in Managing Projects, Teams, and Organizations

Troubleshooting tips and techniques for keeping projects and management careers on track Bestselling author James P. Lewis has become today's number one authority on the rules of project management in virtually any industry or environment. Now, in The Project Manager's Pocket Survival Guide, Dr. Lewis focuses on areas that are often the largest stumbling blocks to project managers both new and experienced, and provides the practical skills and hidden keys necessary for completing projects on time and within budget. Providing numerous case studies of project management successes and failures in the field, this no-nonsense book explains how to maintain project consistency and success in today's environment of fast change and even faster innovation. Managers will obtain new tools and insights for: <ul>
<li>Understanding the politics of projects </li>
<li>Running a successful, results-driven meeting </li>
<li>Managing effectively in the project environment </li>
</ul>

The Project Manager's Pocket Survival Guide

Investing

Speed-to-market is the most critical factor determining the success of new products. James Lewis and Louis Wong, one of today's most accomplished project management author teams, discuss often-overlooked principles that can make the difference in the never-ending race to be first and best. They give project managers, engineers, and top-level decision makers the needed tools and techniques to: <ul>
<li>Establish a solid and well-grounded vision </li>
<li>Turn that vision into an actionable road map </li>
<li>Implement platforms to support new processes </li>
</ul>

Accelerated Project Management: How to Be First to Market

LEWIS, James

Wong, Louis

McGraw–Hill Education

The #1 exam prep guide for official certification as a project management professional Project management is one of today’s fastest growing disciplines, and Project Management Professional certification is the PM gold standard. The McGraw-Hill Guide to the PMP Exam covers the essential principles and knowledge practitioners need to pass this vital exam. This comprehensive study guide and exam prep is aligned with the Project Management Institute’s latest edition of Project Management Book of Knowledge, 2000 Edition. Featuring online questions that allow users to practice answering questions in a similar setting to that of the real exam, this essential book: Covers questions found on the actual exam Provides in-depth discussion of difficult principles Summarizes key points with checklists after each chapter

THE MCGRAW-HILL GUIDE TO THE PMP EXAM

Dudley, Robert

Jerram, Paul

Take charge of your teams and lead them to victory! For nearly a decade, Mastering Project Management, has been the field's gold standard reference. Now, James Lewis has updated his classic guide, offering both practical, real-world guidance and a focus on higher-level tools and applications that you won't find anywhere else. This fully revised second edition shows project managers and team leaders from all industries how to ramp up and fine-tune managing skills and bring all projects to a successful completion. Carefully avoiding any overlap from his other popular project management titles, Lewis clearly defines your role as a project manager and outlines the steps to mastering project management. Lewis has also included the most up-to-date information on today's hot-button topics in the field, providing the know-how you need to: <ul>
<li>Utilize the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) </li>
<li>Survive “no-win” projects </li>
<li>Apply Six Sigma in project management </li>
<li>Improve estimating capability </li>
<li>Manage project risks </li>
<li>Identify customer requirements </li>
<li>Control costs </li>
<li>Understand systems thinking and apply it to projects</li>
</ul>
Lewis shows you how to manage multicultural project teams, coach team members for improved performance, and deal effectively with project stakeholders. He gives you an arsenal of tools for utilizing systems thinking, achieving optimal decision-making, reporting project status, and managing project change and configuration control. Lewis also covers the human element, showing you the most effective ways to conduct interviews, manage meetings, conduct performance reviews, and handle vendors and contractors. If you want to be more than a casual project manager, if you desire to understand every function in your organization, if you aspire to higher management levels, the second edition of Mastering Project Management is your personal guide to success.

Mastering Project Management: Applying Advanced Concepts to Systems Thinking, Control & Evaluation, Resource Allocation

The definitive guide to keeping your project on time, under budget, and problem-free In this Third Edition of The Project Manager's Desk Reference, top project management consultant James Lewis arms you with today's most comprehensive and understandable project management resources, showing you how to conduct a project of any size or nature-from the office move to building new facilities. Using results-oriented language and easy-to-understand examples, this comprehensive, quick-reference guide presents specific situations taken from today's fast-moving business environment, walking you through proven solutions designed to keep the project moving forward. This ready-access toolbox shows you how to: <ul>
<li>Plan, execute, and control a project from beginning to end </li>
<li>Choose project managers, leaders, and teams </li>
<li>Develop project plans using Work Breakdown Structures, PERT, CPM, and Gantt schedules </li>
<li>Conduct risk analysis </li>
<li>Design a project control system </li>
<li>Use earned value analysis to track projects </li>
<li>Communicate effectively with all levels of your team </li>
<li>Conduct the essential post-project “lessons learned” review</li>
</ul>
Serving as the perfect supplement to Lewis's bestselling PM bible, Project Planning, Scheduling, and Control, The Project Manager's Desk Reference provides you with the foundation you need to manage any project to its successful completion.

The Project Manager's Desk Reference, 3E

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The Project Manager's Desk Reference

Project Planning, Scheduling & Control, 3rd Edition

Project Planning, Scheduling & Control, 3rd Edition

Working Together: 12 Principles for Achieving Excellence in Managing Projects, Teams, and Organizations

The Project Manager's Pocket Survival Guide

Accelerated Project Management: How to Be First to Market

The Project Manager's Pocket Survival Guide

THE MCGRAW-HILL GUIDE TO THE PMP EXAM

Mastering Project Management: Applying Advanced Concepts to Systems Thinking, Control & Evaluation, Resource Allocation

The Project Manager's Desk Reference, 3E