DK Essential Managers: Project Management: Planning, Organizing, Evaluating

by D.K. Publishing

DK Essential Managers: Project Management is the visual guide that gives you all the know-how you need to be a more effective manager. Now newly updated with an all-new graphic approach to explaining key techniques and skills, the best-selling DK Essential Managers: Project Management features:


A practical, "how-to" approach teaches you the project management skills you need to succeed. Step-by-step instructions, tips, checklists, and "Ask yourself" features show you how to initiate projects and manage budgets. Tables, illustrations, "in-focus" panels, and real-life case studies show you how to delegate effectively and evaluate success. DK Essential Managers: Project Management not only shows you how to plan, run, and monitor a project but also explains what to do if things go wrong. Learn all you need to define project briefs, identify stakeholders, and build an effective project team with DK Essential Managers: Project Management.

About DK Essential Managers: The DK Essential Managers series covers a range of business and management topics and have sold more than 1.9 million copies worldwide. Each guide is clearly presented for ease of reference, with visual pointers, tips, and graphics. The handy pocket format slips easily into a briefcase or portfolio.

Genres: Business, Management, Professional Development

96 pages, Paperback

First published May 5, 2015

About the author

Dorling Kindersley (DK) is a British multinational publishing company specializing in illustrated reference books for adults and children in 62 languages. It is part of Penguin Random House, a consumer publishing company jointly owned by Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA and Pearson PLC. Bertelsmann owns 53% of the company and Pearson owns 47%.

Established in 1974, DK publishes a range of titles in genres including travel (including Eyewitness Travel Guides), arts and crafts, business, history, cooking, gaming, gardening, health and fitness, natural history, parenting, science and reference. They also publish books for children, toddlers and babies, covering such topics as history, the human body, animals and activities, as well as licensed properties such as LEGO, Disney and DeLiSo, licensor of the toy Sophie la Girafe. DK has offices in New York, London, Munich, New Delhi, Toronto and Melbourne.

Source: Wikipedia.

Reviews

[Ian Nastajus · Rating 5 out of 5]

My personal software project was overwhelming me, my rampant ideation increasing scope beyond sanity. Without a business expertise background, I sought simple summary of the key concepts, to discover how I may bring my messy priorities under control. Skimming all dozen 'project management' related books I found in the bookstore, this one stood out. It exactly spelled out & illustrated intelligently, in small dosages chosen aptly spread across it's pages, a logical progression from the most basic concept, each subsequent page refining my understanding and giving me many 'aha' moments. And it accomplished this with well-thought, simple sentences. The polar opposite of the 'Dummies' books I abhor endless babbling that never gets to the succinct point fast enough for me, by any measure. It introduced the relevant terminology, and emphasized it as necessary, to keep me focused on learning what was not in my normal lexicon / magic bag of skill, whereas many other authors I'd quickly tune out and begin ignore early into reading. It helped me identify stakeholders I've been ignoring, pulling me out of my rabbit hole world focused too much on some wrong things. While my endless ideas weren't exactly prioritized, nonetheless it very much helped me figure out my own filter and priorities, cutting through the noise of my mind. And very much thankfully for my case, the little book focused enough on the 'concepts of PM' and not excessively on 'the other people' which was a rare boon in all these books. (Incidentally: as the decidedly sole developer on this project, I chose to imagine the individual people mentioned as 'mental roles' in my own mind, realizing I probably won't immediately find a book that focuses on a single person project. Certainly doing an entire complex project alone poses it's own unique problems, which, I cannot expect this/most book(s) to advise adequately. )

[Sool · Rating 3 out of 5]

Basic

[Joe makhlouf · Rating 5 out of 5]

The only question that you should be asking yourself when it comes to this book is: What I’m waiting for to buy this book?
It is a very simple and useful book that can simply be read in a maximum of 3 days. It gives you all the information you need on Project Management.
This book is very informative. You will need a notebook to take notes. Additionally, reading this book once isn’t enough. Keep it near and keep going back to it.
Trust me, by the end of the book you’ll know that in each of us there is a project manager.

[Gregory · Rating 3 out of 5]

As the title says this is the essentials and nothing more. Solid but nothing ground breaking. My only real complaint is that the type is so tiny it makes for head ache time whilst trying to read.

[Martin Jost · Rating 2 out of 5]

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