Project Management - Step by Step: How to Plan and Manage a Highly Successful Project - Tapa blanda

You've been given a project to run. You know you need to get it right, but you don't know what you need to do and in what order to make sure it all runs smoothly and you come out of it looking great. You need "Project Management Step by Step". Almost every manager and businessperson finds at some time that he or she has to complete a task that has sufficient complexity and importance that an ad-hoc approach to getting it done is just not enough. Managers in this common situation need the structure and rigour of a project management approach, yet very few managers are formally trained in project management or have the inclination, time or finances to become trained. They need an approach they can feel confidant is sufficiently robust to ensure their success, but also simple enough to be immediately applicable. "Project Management Step by Step" provides the solution to this problem; a practical and immediate way to become a competent project manager. This is a comprehensive and authoritative guide written and structured in a practical and rapidly applicable style.

Richard Newton is an experienced executive who has worked both as a management consultant and a senior manager in a number of major corporations. Over the past twenty years he has built a superb track record in the successful delivery of projects, the setting up and management of project teams, and advising companies on how to ensure successful delivery on an ongoing basis. He is an advocate and successful practitioner of simple approaches to project management.Richard is the author of "The Project Manager: Mastering the Art of Delivery", FT Prentice Hall, April 2005.