Table of Contents
I Project Management Jumpstart
What Is Project Management...Exactly?
What Is the Value of Project Management?
Growing Demand for Effective Project Managers
Key Skills of Project Managers
Qualities of Successful Project Managers
15 Common Mistakes of Project Managers
Project Manager Versus Scrum Master Versus Product Owner
3 Essential Elements for Any Successful Project
What Exactly Is a Successful Project?
Learning from Troubled Projects
Learning from Successful Projects
Essential Project Manager Toolkit
How Does Defining a Project Relate to Project Planning?
Key Project Planning Principles
Important Questions Project Planning Should Answer
Summary of Supplemental Project Plan Components
6 Developing the Work Breakdown Structure
Next Step in the Schedule Development Process
Managing the Risk, Managing the Estimates
Powerful Estimating Techniques and Methods
8 Developing the Project Schedule
The Impact of the Project Schedule
The Goal of the Schedule Development Process
Key Inputs for Building a Schedule
9 Determining the Project Budget
The Impact of the Project Budget
Principles of an Effective Budget
Management Fundamentals for Project Control
Powerful Techniques for Project Control
Leveraging Earned Value Management Concepts
Common Project Control Challenges
Lessons from Project Recoveries
What Exactly Is a Project Change and What’s the Big Deal, Anyway?
Fundamentals for Managing Project Change
What Causes Unplanned Scope Changes?
Essential Elements of a Project Change Control System
Powerful Techniques for Minimizing Project Changes
Common Project Change Control Challenges
12 Managing Project Deliverables
“Managing Project Deliverables” Means What, Exactly?
“Why Do This? It’s Too Much Work!”
Identify, Protect, and Track: The Principles of Managing Work Products
Common Challenges and Pitfalls
The Goals, Objectives, and Principles of Project Issue Management
Key Features of Issue Management Systems
Key Risk Management Principles
The Essential Process for Managing Project Risks
The Common Sources of Project Risk
Powerful Risk Control Strategies
Unique Aspects of Managing Project Quality
Principles of Managing Project Quality
Powerful Tools and Techniques for Project Quality
Typical Quality-Related Challenges
Where Is Leadership Needed on a Project?
12 Keys to Better Project Leadership
Power of Servant Leadership Approach
17 Managing Project Communications
What Are Project Communications?
The Importance of Project Communications
Why Communicating Can Be Tough
Best Practices of Effective Project Communicators
Value of Reviewing Stakeholder Expectations Management
Critical Aspects of Expectations
Seven Master Principles of Expectations Management
Essential Elements of Managing Expectations
19 Keys to Better Project Team Performance
Proven Techniques for Better Team Performance
Proven Techniques for Leading Cross-Functional Projects
Proven Techniques for Leading Cross-Cultural Projects
Proven Techniques for Leading Virtual Projects
First, Let’s Clarify a Few Terms
Ten Proven Principles of Vendor Management
12 Key Project Management Skills for Better Vendor Management
Stuff You Need to Know About Contracts
Project End Checklist: 13 Important Steps
Common Project Closing Challenges
Methods for Ending a Contract or a Project
V Accelerating the Learning Curve…Even More
23 Making Better Use of Microsoft Project
Understand This…and It All Becomes Easier
Best Practices for Setting Up a New Project
Keys to Making Resource Leveling Work
More Insights to a Better Project Schedule
What You Need to Know About the Different Versions of Microsoft Project
What If I’m in a Project Management “Lite” Culture?
What If I Can’t Develop a Detailed Schedule?
What If I Must Manage to a Hard Milestone Date?
What If I Have Difficult Resources?
Tips for Managing a Selection Process
Tips for Managing a Testing Process
Critical Chain Project Management
Web-Based Project Management and Collaboration Tools
What Is Different About the 2021 PMP Exam?
Common “Experience” Differences
Common Terminology Differences
Key PMI Assumptions and Themes