Project Management: The Essential Guide to Thinking and Working Smarter

by Peter Hobbs

In this age of project-driven business, everyone needs to be able to manage a project effectively. PROJECT MANAGEMENT offers advice on the key skills required by the successful project manager--effective planning, goal and objective setting, scheduling, time management, progress monitoring, the control of quality and output, and more. Specifically, it shows readers how * Identify their project mission and pilot the process through to the end * Plan projects and produce effective and realistic schedules * Control and evaluate a project at all stages * Improve their management skills to become a more effective project manager.

Genres: Business, Nonfiction, Management

96 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2000

Reviews

[Lauren Williams · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is tiny, only 4” x 6” and 72 pages. Its title says it all. It’s a primer. It doesn’t go in-depth with strategies for every situation, but alerts you to everything you need to anticipate. The step-by-step breakdown of the process, from defining your goals to getting cooperation from everyone involved, to checking progress, completing/releasing/launching the work and taking a final look at the quality of your accomplishment both just before and sometime after release, are well-defined in four simple chapters: “Thinking project,” “Setting up a project,” “Managing work in progress,” and “Going live.” Equally important, this book won’t age. The tactics offered are only broad suggestions for appropriate tools without going into particular vendors, or programs, etc. that are obsolete over time.

It’s not just for work. Our lives are filled with projects: planning vacation, choosing a pet, remodeling the kitchen, helping Dad downsize. If we think of all of our tasks as projects, we just may be more productive.

Lauren Williams, Owner, Casual Uncluttering LLC, Woodinville, WA, USA

[Kevin · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very basic

[SophWillRead · Rating 4 out of 5]

Easy to read. Basic PM pricinples, process, and high-level review of waterfall and agile methods.

[Annie · Rating 3 out of 5]

The book is a basic introduction to project management.

[Eri · Rating 5 out of 5]

Thought provoking! Learn with Peter Hobbs how to manage your projects - either for profits or non-profits and eventhough you are housewives - effectively and efficiently. This book certainly help us where and how are we going to get our projects done manageably:) Ensure clarity for our projects plans with minimum risks and consequences.

[Loreley · Rating 5 out of 5]

very useful for reviewing before exams. The information is presented nicely and case studies chosen wisely :D

[Hemant · Rating 4 out of 5]

Important things about project management in nutshell