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Nick Graham founded the consultancy and training company, Inspirandum Ltd and is a member of the Association for Project Management and of the Institute of Directors. This is his fourth For Dummies book.

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Learn to:

• Develop projects with confidence
• Use checklists and self-check questions to save time in your projects
• Make sure all key actions and steps are carried out
• Complete vital project documents (with handy templates)

Your ready-made tool for project management success

Want to become a master of planning, organising, motivating and controlling resources to meet your goals? Packed with handy checklists, this easy-to-use guide takes the pain out of project management, showing you step by step how to use rigorous self-check questions to save significant time – and headaches – in managing your projects effectively.

• Got projects? Check! – get expert guidance and find out how to use checklists in line with best practices and the ISO standard
• Sketch it out – get lots of checklists that will help you think a project through, from identifying the benefits and justification of the potential project to who should do what if the project goes ahead
• It’s a plan – use handy checklists and templates to develop the range of plans you’ll need in your project: resource, risk, quality, communications, stakeholder and procurement
• Be in control – discover helpful checklists for keeping control of your project through every stage of its lifecycle
• Master the miscellany – take over someone else’s project partway through or audit someone else’s project with ease and confidence

Open the book and find:

• How to use checklists and templates in projects
• The best way to kick off a project
• Checklists and templates for planning
• The importance of roles and responsibilities
• Time-tested project management techniques worth knowing
• Ten convincing reasons to use a method