Project Management Checklists for Dummies - Paperback

by Nick Graham (Author)

Your must-have tool for perfect project management

Want to take your career to the next level and be a master of planning, organising, motivating and controlling resources to meet your goals? This easy-to-use guide has you covered Project Management Checklists For Dummies takes the intimidation out of project management, and shows you step by step how to use rigorous self-check questions to save significant time--and headaches--in managing your projects effectively.

Project Management Checklists For Dummies gives you to-do lists, hands-on checklists and helpful guidance for managing every phase of a project from start to finish. Before you know it, you'll be a star project manager as you organise, estimate and schedule projects in today's time-crunched, cost-conscious global business environment.

• Includes useful to-do lists and checklists to ensure all the necessary steps are completed
• Offers simple exercises to help clarify needs and requirements along the way
• Provides templates to complete, which can also be downloaded from Dummies.com and customised to suit your unique requirements
• Supplies hints and tips to help you along the way

If you're a project manager--or any professional charged with managing a project and wondering where to start--Project Management Checklists For Dummies is your ready-made tool for success.

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Learn to:

• Develop projects with confidence
• Use checklists and self-check questions to save time in your projects
• Make sure all key actions and steps are carried out
• Complete vital project documents (with handy templates)

Your ready-made tool for project management success

Want to become a master of planning, organising, motivating and controlling resources to meet your goals? Packed with handy checklists, this easy-to-use guide takes the pain out of project management, showing you step by step how to use rigorous self-check questions to save significant time - and headaches - in managing your projects effectively.

• Got projects? Check! - get expert guidance and find out how to use checklists in line with best practices and the ISO standard
• Sketch it out - get lots of checklists that will help you think a project through, from identifying the benefits and justification of the potential project to who should do what if the project goes ahead
• It's a plan - use handy checklists and templates to develop the range of plans you'll need in your project: resource, risk, quality, communications, stakeholder and procurement
• Be in control - discover helpful checklists for keeping control of your project through every stage of its lifecycle
• Master the miscellany - take over someone else's project partway through or audit someone else's project with ease and confidence

Open the book and find:

• How to use checklists and templates in projects
• The best way to kick off a project
• Checklists and templates for planning
• The importance of roles and responsibilities
• Time-tested project management techniques worth knowing
• Ten convincing reasons to use a method

Author Biography

Nick Graham founded the consultancy and training company, Inspirandum Ltd and is a member of the Association for Project Management and of the Institute of Directors. This is his fourth For Dummies book.