UK Edition
This book helps you recognise that the basic elements of successful project management are straightforward. The book provides information and explains powerful techniques that help you plan and manage projects successfully. That help includes how to lead and manage other people who are working with you on the project, some of whom may be senior to you in the organisation.
You’ll find plenty of tips, hints and guidelines for both the hard skills such as planning and the soft skills for working with people in and around your project.But knowledge alone won’t make you a successful Project Manager – you need to apply it. This book’s theme is that project management skills and techniques aren’t burdensome tasks you perform because some process requires it. Rather,they’re a way of thinking, communicating and behaving to help you achieve successful delivery.
Like all ‘For Dummies’ books, this one is written to be direct and easy to understand. But don’t be misled – the simple text still navigates all the critical tools and techniques you’ll need to support your project planning, scheduling, budgeting, organising and controlling.
You’ll find that the information is presented in a logical and modular progression. Hints and tips are plentiful, and there’s some attempt at humour from time to time to keep the writing down to earth. The idea is that you finish this book feeling that good project management is a necessity and that you’re determined to practise it!