Improving Your Project Management Skills

by Larry Richman

If a full-fledged project management course doesn't fit your schedule or your budget, check out the new edition of 'Improving Your Project Management Skills". Based on the hugely popular American Management Association seminar of the same name, this ultrapractical reference offers powerful and repeatable project initiatives that improve processes, streamline productivity, and cut costs dramatically. You'll get tools, tips, charts, lists, and never-fail advice for: planning and budgeting; defining project scope; project scheduling; implementation; performance measurement; leadership and staff issues; work breakdown structures; alignment with business goals; risk assessment and management; communication; and, project closure. Now completely revised and updated, the book is consistent with the most recent edition of "A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK[registered])" and includes dozens of current practices and real-world examples. Equal parts learning tool and workplace reference, "Improving Your Project Management Skills" puts the power of a world-class project management seminar right in your hands.

224 pages, Paperback

First published December 23, 2005

About the author

Larry Richman is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP), an internet strategist, web and social media marketer, and author of over a dozen books. Mr. Richman lives in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Reviews

[Jaideep Khanduja · Rating 5 out of 5]

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Book Review: Improving Your Project Management Skills by Larry Richman: Enriching Project Management Skills

Improving Your Project Management Skills by Larry Richman is a really enriching book for all aspirant and established project managers hungry for getting mastered in enhancement of their skill for managing projects. The second edition was published in 2012 and is themed on one of the most popular seminars with the same name in the United States conducted by American Management Association. The second addition has been completely aligned with PMI’s PMBoK (Project Management Body of Knowledge ®) in terms of revised Project Management Standards, Practices and Methodologies.

This excellently presented book completely covers a project’s lifecycle right from its inception to project sign off. You will find a comprehensive coverage of step by step process knowledge of real life projects. The life of any project begins documentation of project definition, project scope and project requirements; and their subsequent sign off to kick start a project. Once the project initiation is handled in a structured manner, there remain less chances of hiccups in its execution and deployment in the next stages.

On the basis of project requirements are captured in detail, what a project manager needs to do next is to build work breakdown structure (WBS). The same can be translated to diagrammatic form to manage the sequential activities of project execution/ development phase. Basis work breakdown structure, tasks’ estimations are worked out for each activity with appropriate timelines, team estimations, resource management and financials.

Improving Your Project Management Skills by Larry Richman, in a nutshell helps you in chalking out concrete path to accurate estimations and execution without getting budged off with your timelines, costs, resources, quality and teams.

[Bill Rice · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book about project management. Easy to read and understand, yet it covers project management in some depth. Great examples to show how to put project management into practice in real life. Not just theoretical, but very practical.

[M.s.haggag · Rating 3 out of 5]

I found new and useful details in this good book .