The Handbook of Project Management: A Practical Guide to Effective Policies and Procedures Review

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(More customer reviews)Regardless of your level of experience and knowledge you'll benefit from this book.At 256 pages this is a relatively short book that is unique in that it provides both techniques for successful project management and how to integrate them into governing policies and procedures.
In addition to a structured approach to project initiation, planning, control and shutdown, this book also provides an incredible array us useful checklists, tables and other project artifacts that can be used as guidelines for your own standardized project forms. While a previous reviewer understandably lamented that these should have also been provided in electronic format on a CD ROM or accompanying website, even in paper format these will give you practical models which can be easily replicated in any word processing program or HTML for sharing on a company intranet.
This book closely follows the UK project management standard called PRINCE2, but also aligns nicely with the US standard that is embodied in the Project Management Institute's Project Management Body of Knowledge.More importantly, the process flow and associated policy and procedure guidelines can be used independently of any project management standard, and if followed will assure a high project success rate.This is because the author focuses on key critical success factors, such as defined roles and responsibilities, breaking projects into stages, and good estimating and control techniques.I especially like the emphasis on project change management and the importance placed on properly shutting down a project, both of which are critical success factors in my opinion.

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The Handbook of Project Management is written specifically to help project managers improve their performance using tried and tested techniques. The package comprises a book plus free CD ROM containing a collection of tools, templates, and procedures which support the methodology used in the book. Written by an experiences practitioner, it will be particularly useful for those looking to develop project management skills, starting a new project, wishing to acquire new skills, or training others in project management skills. Packed with concepts, processes, tools, and presentation materials, this comprehensive handbook will assist anyone responsible for converting strategy into reality.

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