Getting Started in Project Management

by Paula K. Martin, Karen Tate

Whether working on an international project for a Fortune 500 company or organizing a family reunion, you need effective project management to ensure timely and efficient completion of projects. This helpful guide offers explanations of everything needed to get started in project management including: how to initiate a project and lead the project team, how to structure the project and plan for resources, how to monitor and track the plan, and how to close out the project. Packed with practical advice, this book includes tips to increase success, reveals common pitfalls to avoid, and presents case studies to show and why project management actually works.

Paula Martin (Torrington, CT) is the CEO of Martin Tate, a management consulting and training company. She works with project teams to help them improve performance and has been a consultant on issues related to improving organization performance for over ten years.
Karen Tate (Cincinnati, OH) is the President of MartinTate and is a Project Management Professional. She has over twenty years of project management experience and teaches project management to teams in organizations around the world.

Genres: Business

272 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 1, 2001

About the author

Paula Martin is the CEO of the Matrix Management Institute and primary developer of the Matrix Management 2.0 organizational operating system.

Paula is the author of Matrix Management Reinvented: Book 1 - The New Game in Town, Managing Projects in a Matrix, Matrix Management Reinvented: Book 2 - The 7 Shifts Needed to Be a Successful Leader and other titles related to organizational improvement and matrix management.

Reviews

[Mohammed Zaitoun · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book was my first book in project management I read it in 2007 it gave me a very good introduction to project management in general, it helped me to understand what is done in project management I know now in 2021 things have changed in this field but I believe this book still will be a good introduction to anyone who is starting to understand and study project management.

[Emmy Soliman · Rating 4 out of 5]

A good start for me