PROJECT MANAGER'S DESK REFERENCES LEWIS Księgarnia

Strategies to Keep Every Project on Time, under Budget...

The Project Managers Desk Reference

A Comprehensive guide to project planning, acheduling, avaluation, control and systems

The Project Manager's Desk Reference has become the bible of project managers everywhere, regardless of industry or project size. With this Second Edition, project management pioneer James Lewis provides updated examples, illustrations, and figures-along with the clear, how-to-do-it approaches that are his trademark- to help you put a project plan together, assemble, and manage a problem-solving team, eliminate potential stumbling blocks to keep the project on target, and complete the project in an orderly, economical, and timely manner.

In addition, Lewis successfully integrates management techniques with project planning tools as he clearly defines the roles and responsibilities of each stakeholder in the project. He explains how risk management techniques such as Failure Mode Effects Analysis (FMEA) can be used to identify and manage a project's technical, cost, and schedule risks. The most common causes of project success and failure are presented and analyzed-to help you maximize the former and eliminate the latter. Profiles of world-class project management organizations allow you to benchmark your efforts against the best.

The Project Manager's Desk Reference is, quite simply, the best project management tool available today-and the only one you will need.

"A project is a problem scheduled for solution." -J. M. Juran

While each project is different, with its own personality and requirements, the overall steps and guidelines for completing projects remain remarkably consistent. The Project Manager's Desk Reference addresses situations from each stage of the project, from beginning to end, and will show managers in any organization how to handle a project of virtually any size.

Written with the working practitioner in mind, this comprehensive resource on the core principles of project management emphasizes application rather than theory. It presents specific situations, taken from today's fast-moving business environment, and walks you through proven solutions designed to keep the project moving forward.

Only in The Project Manager's Desk Reference will you find:

The Lewis Method of Project Management-A 16-step process for planning, monitoring, and controlling any project

The 7 Components of the Project Management System-Critical areas in which one small flaw can grow to topple the project

Valuable Resources for Project Managers-Lists of associations, checklists for each stage of the project, and powerful websites

The ability to skillfully manage a project is essential in today's business world, both for the successes of the projects and for the project managers themselves-whose successes are generally recognized and rewarded. Whether you are currently involved in planning or executing a project, or just want to prepare yourself for the next opportunity. The Project Manager's Desk Reference will provide a template for managing your next project to its successful conclusion.

More than 50 percent of the work done in a typical organisation is done in a project format. While each of these projects must be managed, too often the employees named to manage them are given little if any training in the skills they will need to successfully complete the project.

The Project Manager's Desk Reference. second edilion. uses results-oriented language and easy-to-understand examples to detail how you can complete am project on time, within budget, and at the desired performance level. Updated and revised from its best-selling first edition-which has become today's most (rusted all-in-one project management resource-this ready -access toolbox will show you how to:

Develop project plans using Work Breakdown Structures, PERT, CPM, and (rant schedules

Conduct risk analysis

Design a project control system

Use earned value analysis to (rack projects

Communicate effectively with all levels of your team

Conduct the essential post-project "lessons learned" review

The secrets to successful project management are knowledge. preparation, and an ability to keep the project on track. The Project Manager's Desk Referenceship Project arms you will today's most comprehensive and understandable project management resources. providing you the foundation you need to manage am project to its successful completion.

About the Author

James P. Lewis, Ph.D., is the founder of The Lewis Institute, Inc., an association of professionals providing project management training throughout the United States, England, and the Far East. His solid, no-nonsense approach is largely the result of more than 20 years of project management experience. Since 1980, Dr. Lewis has trained over 16,000 supervisors and managers throughout the United States, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, India, and England. He has written articles for numerous professional publications, and his books include Project Planning, Scheduling and Control; Mastering Project Management; Fundamentals of Project Management; How to Build and Manage a Winning Project Team; and Team-Based Project Management.

546pp

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