Project manager street smarts - Linda Kretz Zaval

Hit the ground running with the streetsmart training youll find in this practical guide to project management. Using a "year in the life" approach, it gives you an inside look at the common responsibilities of project managers, with key information organized around the actual daytoday tasks, scenarios, and challenges youll face in the field. This valuable training tool is loaded with handson, stepbystep exercises covering all phases of project management, including:

• Initiating and planning the project



• Executing the project




• Monitoring and controlling the project




• Closing the project

An invaluable study tool

This nononsense book puts into practice all of the concepts found in A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK Guide), Fourth Edition. Whether you are a Project Management Professional (PMP) seeking to update your skills, or are a novice project management practitioner, this book walks you through every step of managing a project, including:

• Defining and stating the scope



• Developing a project charter




• Building a master project management plan




• Creating and managing the work breakdown structure




• Obtaining approval and resources




• Measuring personnel and project performance




• Closing out contracts as well as the project

The Street Smarts
series is designed to help current or aspiring IT professionals put their certification to work for them. Full of practical, real world scenarios, each book features actual tasks from the field and then offers stepbystep exercises that teach the skills necessary to complete those tasks. And because the exercises are based upon exam objectives from leading technology certifications, each Street Smarts book can be used as a lab manual for certification prep.