101 Project Management Problems and How to Solve Them: Practical Advice for Handling Real-World Project Challenges - Tapa blanda

Kendrick Pmp, Tom

 
9780814415573: 101 Project Management Problems and How to Solve Them: Practical Advice for Handling Real-World Project Challenges
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ISBN 10: 0814415571 ISBN 13: 9780814415573
Editorial: Amacom, 2010

Sinopsis

In this helpful how-to, author Tom Kendrick reveals field-proven principles for navigating high-pressure situations, so you can overcome any obstacle.

Even with a terrific project management program in place, problems can arise to derail your team’s hard work. This book explores a wide range of challenging scenarios and practical solutions and is packed with insightful answers to over 100 of your most urgent project management questions.

In 101 Project Management Problems and How to Solve Them, you’ll learn how to:

  • keep a project on track despite unavoidable interruptions;
  • how to prevent unreliable outside collaborators from jeopardizing the entire project;
  • how to manage project teams who have little or no project management experience;
  • how to make up for lost time without cutting corners;
  • and how to succeed--even in the face of threatened budget cuts.

The last thing you need in the heat of battle is to dive into project management theories. While there’s no one right answer to the challenges you face as a project manager, 101 Project Management Problems and How to Solve Them has a plethora of actionable guidelines that help you troubleshoot quickly so you can get back to doing what you do best.

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Acerca del autor

Tom Kendrick (San Carlos, CA) is an internal project management consultant for Visa Inc., and a former project management executive for Hewlett-Packard. He is the author of Identifying and Managing Project Risk (978-0-8144-1340-1), Results Without Authority (978-0-8144-7343-6), and The Project Management Tool Kit (978-0-8144-0810-0).

De la contraportada

Electrical outages, fires, floods, computer malfunctions, toxic material spills, water main breaks, labor strikes, sabotage. The number of disasters that can shut down your organization is vast, and the likelihood of one striking is inevitable. Even minor setbacks, like a fifteen-minute blackout, can cost you a bundle.

With a focus on practical solutions and an emphasis on getting your operations functional as soon as possible, this all-new edition of The Disaster Recovery Handbook helps you develop a clear, what-to-do-next plan of action for your organization. From assembling your team to analyzing your risk to testing your plan, you’ll learn to minimize damage and quickly recover from any natural or human-made disaster.

Completely revised and updated, The Disaster Recovery Handbook walks you through a multitude of real-life disaster scenarios, pointing out what works and what doesn’t for bringing order to chaotic situations. You’ll learn to implement every key step in a recovery effort, including how to:

• Assemble a disaster reaction team.

• Design a business impact analysis and risk assessment.

• Prepare recovery plans for different scenarios.

• Test and debug every step.

• Pinpoint the best place to locate your emergency operations center.

• Preserve essential data networks.

• Recover from a power outage.

• Retrieve vital records.

• And much more.

Plenty of people have come up with sloppy, hastily prepared disaster plans that languish on a shelf. But your plan won’t. By following the how-to guidelines and ready-to-use forms on the accompanying CD, this sweeping, start-to-finish guide will serve as an essential survival guide for navigating the trials ahead.

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Editorial
Amacom
Año de publicación
2010
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0814415571
ISBN 13 
9780814415573
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
272
Contacto del fabricante
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