Project Management: A Quick Start Beginners Guide For Easily Managing Projects The Right Way [Large Print]

By Susan Hollister

Plan Smarter. Lead Stronger. Finish Well.

A promising project can quickly become a maze of shifting deadlines, unclear responsibilities, stretched resources, and uncontrolled changes. Project Management gives new and aspiring project managers a practical foundation for turning complex work into organized, manageable action.

This quick-start guide follows the project from initiation and planning through execution, closure, and evaluation. Its strongest emphasis is on planning: defining scope, estimating resources and time, preparing budgets, setting quality and acceptance standards, anticipating risk, communicating with stakeholders, and arranging procurement before problems multiply.

Build the Plan That Guides the Work

- Use project charters, stakeholder registers, scope statements, and review forms to define the work before it begins

- Estimate resources, time, and costs; map dependencies; identify the critical path; and build workable schedules

- Create financial, quality, risk, communications, acceptance, and procurement plans

- Monitor cost, time, quality, change, issues, risk, suppliers, and stakeholder communication during execution

Lead People, Protect Progress, and Close Properly

- Develop leadership habits in delegation, motivation, negotiation, listening, organization, adaptability, and clear communication

- Guide teams through forming, storming, norming, performing, and disbanding while keeping the work aligned

- Use Gantt charts, activity logs, precedence diagrams, action checklists, schedule compression, and schedule controls

- Close contracts, obtain approvals, release resources, capture lessons learned, and evaluate results for future projects

Whether you are stepping into your first project role, managing business projects, or strengthening the way you organize and lead work, this guide shows what project managers plan, document, monitor, communicate, and complete. Build the vocabulary, tools, and leadership perspective to face your next project with a clearer sense of what to do-and why it matters.

Bring Order to Your Next Project: Get It Now

• Format: Paperback
• Large Print: Yes
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1640482407
• ISBN13: 9781640482401
• Release Date: July 2017
• Publisher: Susan Hollister
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.0" x 10.0"