Project Management, Second Edition
- 3h 51m
- Gary R. Heerkens
- McGraw-Hill
- 2014
In today's environment of tight turnarounds and even tighter budgets, the effective project manager is often considered the most valuable member of a workplace team.
Project Management, Second Edition, provides a step-by-step introduction to the tools and techniques necessary to successfully spearhead your next project. This new edition has everything that made the original so popular, plus it has been updated to reflect new principles and strategies in team building, planning, estimating costs, managing project interfaces, and more--providing you with the kind of business savvy today's project manager is expected to possess. Learn how to:
- Stay on top of all aspects of your project: process, interpersonal, and organizational
- Forge a spirit of cooperation--and achievement--among diverse team members
- Manage all the contingencies--foreseen and unforeseen--that come up in every project
About the Author
Gary R. Heerkens, PMP, CPM, MPM, CIPM, CPC, MMC, CBM, CIPA, PEng, MBA is the president of Management Solutions Group, a firm that provides progressive and effective project management training and consulting solutions. Before establishing Management Solutions Group, he managed projects for Eastman Kodak for over 20 years and later served as staff assistant to Kodak’s director of project management, developing and delivering project management training, developing project process methodology, and consulting within Kodak.
Mr. Heerkens is a long-standing seminar provider for Project Management Institute’s SeminarsWorld series, and is the project management education provider for the Purchasing Management Association of Canada. He has been invited to speak at nearly every PMI Global Congress since 1998—including encore requests in 2007 and 2008.
Mr. Heerkens is a contributing editor to PMI’s PM Network magazine, writing on “the business of projects.” In addition to this book, he authored The Business-Savvy Project Manager, published in 2006.
Mr. Heerkens is an active member of several professional societies, including PMI, IAPPM, APBM, AAPM, and IPMA, where he has received a number of professional certifications; he has been honored as a Fellow by IAPPM and by AAPM. He was president of the PMI Rochester Chapter from 1998-2001, and was reelected president in 2005-2006. He’s a licensed Professional Engineer in New York and holds an MBA from RIT.
In this Book
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Project Management, Second Edition
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Introduction
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Congratulations! You’re the Project Manager!
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An Overview of Projects and Project Management
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About the Role of Project Manager
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How Companies Identify and Select the “Right” Projects
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Planning and Estimating: The Foundation of Project Management
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Defining and Launching Your Project
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Building and Maintaining an Effective Team
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Managing the Project Interfaces
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Preparing an Integrated Project Plan
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Addressing Risk and Uncertainty
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Ensuring Successful Project Execution
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Bringing the Project to a Successful Conclusion
