- Paperback: 224 pages
- Publisher: Hodder Education (25 July 2008)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0340968761
- ISBN-13: 978-0340968765
- Product Dimensions: 19.9 x 13 x 1.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 904,645 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Whether you are finding your way as a manager or you want to enhance the skills you already have, the Instant Manager series is exactly what you need! Written by leading experts, they are inexpensive, concise but above all authoritative guides to the subject at hand. The portable format allows you to carry the book wherever you go and to fit learning and development into your busy work life.
Based on the 10 most FAQs, each chapter ends with a quick tip that can be taken on board immediately. A tear out card covering the most salient points allows you to carry the expertise with you wherever you go.
Project Management is becoming a key requirement for the modern manager. The aim of this book is to provide a readable and practical introduction to the subject, including:
- What a project is
- How a project can be chosen, planned, organized and managed
- How to create and manage a project team
- How to manage the financial aspects of a project
- How to bring a project to a successful completion
Backed by the authority of the Chartered Management Institute, this is an essential addition to the manager's library.
Based on the 10 most FAQs, each chapter ends with a quick tip that can be taken on board immediately. A tear out card covering the most salient points allows you to carry the expertise with you wherever you go.
Project Management is becoming a key requirement for the modern manager. The aim of this book is to provide a readable and practical introduction to the subject, including:
- What a project is
- How a project can be chosen, planned, organized and managed
- How to create and manage a project team
- How to manage the financial aspects of a project
- How to bring a project to a successful completion
Backed by the authority of the Chartered Management Institute, this is an essential addition to the manager's library.
About the Author
Phil Baguley (B.Sc., Dip.Chem.Eng, MBA.learnt about project management in a career that included senior line management roles in several multi-national corporations and management consultancy in the UK and mainland Europe. He has also lectured on a number of management topics at the Anglia Business School and tutored for the Open Business School. His writing has included articles for the technical press and many books.
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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful
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Teach Yourself Project Management is a useful and detailed introductory guide for people serious about learning project management. Although it's not an academic book, the focus is definitely on getting to grips with the whole subject of project management, rather than being a 'how-to' guide for managing your current problem project.
Real project management skills are at a premium in most of the organisations I have worked in. In the current IT saturated world, I tend to find about ten people who have Microsoft Project (in itself an excellent program) on their computers for every one person who actually knows about project management as a discipline. This doesn't, of course mean, that they are necessarily bad at managing the projects they work on, but it does mean that they will struggle to transfer their project skills to a different kind of project.
My organisation took on a couple of consultants on a semi-permanent basis as specialist project managers. I spent yesterday afternoon with one of them going through a fairly major project we are working on. Without using any kind of software at all, he took me through all the key factors that would make or break us. Project management was completely ingrained into his system.
I aspire to be like him.
This book is certainly not going to take me to that level. But it has given me a solid grounding in the techniques, the terminology, and the overall approach.
I suppose there is somewhere out there a better, more useful, clearer and more concise book than this on the subject. But, until I find it, I shall continue to cheerfully recommend this one.
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