Legal Project Management: Control Costs, Meet Schedules, Manage Risks, and Maintain Sanity Review

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(More customer reviews)This book is easy to read and describes legal project management in practical terms.It recognizes current issues and challenges in the legal industry including increasing demand of clients for alternative pricing arrangements and additional value for fees.

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Legal budgets are shrinking. Clients call for cost control. Finish on time, they plead. Meet business as well as legal needs. Reduce project risk. Be predictable. Do more with less. The emerging field of Legal Project Management offers a powerful new approach. As described in this groundbreaking book, Legal Project Management is not an alien discipline, full of jargon and process overhead. Rather, it's designed for the specific world of legal professionals. It respects the way attorneys work, enhancing their success by playing to their strengths.Best of all, it's easily mastered by attorneys because it's based on tasks they're already doing.Need to make better decisions and provide accurate information about cost, deadlines, and risks? You need Legal Project Management. Trying to control legal costs? Whether you're in a law firm or in-house, it's time to take advantage of Legal Project Management. Legal Project Management is the essential guide to the subject, with topics arranged so you can easily find the material you need when you need it most. Steven B. Levy, a leading expert in the field, writes with clarity and insight gained from his 35 years of business, project, and legal experience. He shares the lessons of decades of managing and mentoring teams that attained outstanding outcomes.Overworked legal professionals are already doing it all. Now get it all under control with Legal Project Management.

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Planning and Scheduling Using Microsoft Office Project 2007 Review

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(More customer reviews)Microsoft's latest upgrade to Microsoft Project is out--and so is Paul Harris' venerable user's reference and guide.

An upgrade from Harris' previous book on Microsoft® Project 2003, this book addresses the latest features and carry-over functions of Microsoft's latest release to the project management public. Sustaining his clear and concise manner of writing, Harris explains the basic and intermediate functions, both new and carry-over, of using Microsoft® Project. The book covers most available functions and features, and adds complexity gradually and palatably as the users work their way through the book's 24 detailed chapters of content and reference information. Like the MS Project 2003, 2002, and 2000 books, Harris takes some pretty complicated topics like "how duration, work, resources, and units trade-off with each other" and makes it seem like anybody can learn to use the software. Although Microsoft's style is to equip the software with different ways to reach a single result, Harris does a very good job of pointing out these various approaches to the reader easing one's learning curve.

Harris' books continue to be functionally organized, not by menu item. So, if you are using the book as a reference manual or help guide, it's easy to find a particular topic since you don't have to know which menu the function is called up from--you just need to know the subject that you are looking for. The detailed index at the back is thorough and handy. Harris also provides a list of menus and related sub-menus at the beginning of most chapters for people who cannot remember how to find or use a particular function.

Having used his books for several years as training manuals for my own scheduling classes, I see how effective the workshop exercises are in giving students an opportunity to practice the lessons taught by the immediately preceding text--the only way to really learn complicated software applications.

Once again, Paul Harris has succeeded in explaining how to use Microsoft® Project 2007--not an easy feat.

A. Larry Aaron CCE

President, T&M Concepts

Las Vegas, NV www.tandmconcepts.com

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A user guide written for Project Management Professionals in any industry who wishto learn or improve their skills in Microsoft Project 20007 and discover how to get themost out of the software up to an intermediate level in a single project environmentusing Standard or Professional versions.

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Fundamentals of Project Management (Worksmart Series) Review

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(More customer reviews)I have been trying for some time to get people on my company to read about Project Management, with no success: even if they start, they don't read more than a few chapters. This book has an exceptional advantage over many other books: It is short, instructive, readable, and fun.
In the last three months, I have convinced four people to read this book, lending to them the copy I bought for the company, and two of them bought a copy for themselves (I almost forgot: it is also very inexpensive :-) ). Afterwards, most of them say that the book does not contain any secrets, but it provides an excellent framework on PM, and wets their appetite for this discipline.
By the way, some of the best books on PM I have read come from Amacom. I'd recommend Team Based Project Management, also by James Lewis, and another great book is Information Systems Project Management, by Hallows.

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In today's time-based and cost-conscious global business environment, tight project deadlines and stringent expectations are the norm. With sales of more than 115,000 copies, Fundamentals of Project Management has helped a lot of business people meet or exceed those standards. The updated and revised third edition provides an unparalleled introduction to project management, along with new tools and techniques for planning and executing projects on time, on budget, and with maximum efficiency and productivity.
This new edition includes:
* an overview of recent changes to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK)®
* expanded coverage of project risk management
* how to implement a Project Management Office (PMO)
* and much more
Clear and down-to-earth, this step-by-step guide explains how to effectively spearhead every stage of a project -- from developing the goals and objectives to managing the project team -- and make project management work in any company.

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