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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Project Management
The step-by-step guide to becoming a successful project manager.
By systematically managing goals and resources, any project, large or small, complicated or straightforward, can be achieved with great profitability. A certified project management professional shares the latest theories, procedures, and software tools available in this fully updated and revised guide including the newest directive from the Project Management Institute. An invaluable guide for any manager, it clearly explains the best way to approach any project, and also gives all the information necessary to those interested in passing the test to become a certified Project Management Professional.
? Includes the most current terms and concepts on the certification test, and the latest software tools from Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, and Primavera.
? Advice from an expert with useful, real-life anecdotes from the field.
By systematically managing goals and resources, any project, large or small, complicated or straightforward, can be achieved with great profitability. A certified project management professional shares the latest theories, procedures, and software tools available in this fully updated and revised guide including the newest directive from the Project Management Institute. An invaluable guide for any manager, it clearly explains the best way to approach any project, and also gives all the information necessary to those interested in passing the test to become a certified Project Management Professional.
? Includes the most current terms and concepts on the certification test, and the latest software tools from Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, and Primavera.
? Advice from an expert with useful, real-life anecdotes from the field.
432 pages, Paperback
First published December 6, 2005
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March 11, 2018
Despite the connotation of the title, I find these types of Idiot's Guide books extremely helpful whenever approaching a new topic I am completely unfamiliar with.
I picked up this book to help familiarize me with the world of project management since that topic is the focus of my development plan at work these days. This book gives an overview from the inception of a project to closing it down along with all of the steps in between. The writing style of the author was not in an academic manner and easy to understand as long as one takes the time internalize the specialized vocabulary introduced throughout the book.
Now that I have finished reading this book, am I ready to lead a project? Absolutely not. Would I feel comfortable enough to assist a project manager on a medium sized project and not be completely lost? Sure. Did this book make the daylong project management class I took at work a lot easier to comprehend? You bet.
This book gives a great summary of why project management is important and the need to use it. While there are aspects of the how to execute the various phases of a project, this part of the book could have been much more robust to help people feel more confident in using these skills. A key resource that would have made this book better would have been to have access to templates that could be used in the planning stages of project management and some deeper insights in how to use them effectively.
I picked up this book to help familiarize me with the world of project management since that topic is the focus of my development plan at work these days. This book gives an overview from the inception of a project to closing it down along with all of the steps in between. The writing style of the author was not in an academic manner and easy to understand as long as one takes the time internalize the specialized vocabulary introduced throughout the book.
Now that I have finished reading this book, am I ready to lead a project? Absolutely not. Would I feel comfortable enough to assist a project manager on a medium sized project and not be completely lost? Sure. Did this book make the daylong project management class I took at work a lot easier to comprehend? You bet.
This book gives a great summary of why project management is important and the need to use it. While there are aspects of the how to execute the various phases of a project, this part of the book could have been much more robust to help people feel more confident in using these skills. A key resource that would have made this book better would have been to have access to templates that could be used in the planning stages of project management and some deeper insights in how to use them effectively.
August 21, 2025
Ugh! So much to slosh through. I read it as a top-tier NAPO recommended book. There must be multiple other books on project management that are vastly better than this one especially for POs that will not be running projects as elaborate as this book “guides.”
January 23, 2024
Summary of PMBOK actually, super raw.
February 4, 2013
Book that, with a very suggestive name, presents the basic concepts of project management, focusing mainly into the "non project managers" public.
Livro que, com um nome bastante sugestivo, apresenta os conceitos básicos de gerenciamento de projetos, focando principalmente o público de "não gerentes de projeto".
Livro que, com um nome bastante sugestivo, apresenta os conceitos básicos de gerenciamento de projetos, focando principalmente o público de "não gerentes de projeto".
March 22, 2013
Not a very good book. I recommend "Project Management That Works" by Rick Morris instead.
February 11, 2014
It was a place to start. Sometimes, that's what you need!
July 14, 2014
Very Sample book and good guide to who will start in Management Career
I recommend it for all
I recommend it for all
March 3, 2017
Greatly detailed! I read this for my project management class with the author himself as my professor.
September 27, 2017
Good guide
This is a good guide for project management. It has some helpful hints and ideas. It tells what worked and what didn't work for this author.
This is a good guide for project management. It has some helpful hints and ideas. It tells what worked and what didn't work for this author.
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